# Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

The Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) is an academic conference in the fields of algorithm design and discrete mathematics. It is considered to be one of the top conferences for research in algorithms. SODA has been organized annually since 1990, typically in January. SODA is jointly sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and the SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics, and in format is more similar to a theoretical computer science conference than to a mathematics conference.

## History

The first Symposium on Discrete Algorithms was held in 1990 at San Francisco, organized by David Johnson. In 2012, the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT) and SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics (SIAG/DM) jointly established SODA Steering Committee to work with SIAM and ACM on organizing SODA.
| Year | PC Chair | Location | Steering Committee |
| 1990 | David S. Johnson | San Francisco |
| 1991 | Alok Aggarwal | San Francisco |
| 1992 | Greg N. Frederickson | Orlando |
| 1993 | Vijaya Ramachandran | Austin |
| 1994 | Daniel Dominic Sleator | Arlington |
| 1995 | Kenneth L. Clarkson | San Francisco |
| 1996 | Éva Tardos | Atlanta |
| 1997 | Michael E. Saks | New Orleans |
| 1998 | Howard J. Karloff | San Francisco |
| 1999 | Robert Endre Tarjan | Baltimore |
| 2000 | David B. Shmoys | San Francisco |
| 2001 | S. Rao Kosaraju | Washington, DC, |
| 2002 | David Eppstein | San Francisco |
| 2003 | Martin Farach-Colton | Baltimore |
| 2004 | J. Ian Munro | New Orleans |
| 2005 | Adam Buchsbaum | British Columbia |
| 2006 | Cliff Stein | Miami |
| 2007 | Harold Gabow | New Orleans |
| 2008 | Shang-Hua Teng | San Francisco |
| 2009 | Claire Mathieu | New York |
| 2010 | Moses Charikar | Austin |
| 2011 | Dana Randall | San Francisco |
| 2012 | Yuval Rabani | Kyoto, Japan | David Johnson (Chair), Moses Charikar, Claire Mathieu, Mike Molloy, Prasad Tetali |
| 2013 | Sanjeev Khanna | New Orleans | David Johnson (Chair), Moses Charikar, Claire Mathieu, Mike Molloy, Angelika Steger |
| 2014 | Chandra Chekuri | Portland | Cliff Stein (Chair), Claire Mathieu, Mike Molloy, Dana Randall, Angelika Steger |
| 2015 | Piotr Indyk | San Diego | Cliff Stein (Chair), Pavol Hell, Dana Randall, Angelika Steger, Shang-Hua Teng |
| 2016 | Robert Krauthgamer | Arlington | " |
| 2017 | Philip N. Klein | Barcelona, Spain | Cliff Stein (Chair), Pavol Hell, Daniel Král, Dana Randall, Shang-Hua Teng |
| 2018 | Artur Czumaj | New Orleans | " |
| 2019 | Timothy M. Chan | San Diego | " |
| 2020 | Shuchi Chawla | Salt Lake City | Shang-Hua Teng (Chair), Julia Chuzhoy, Pavol Hell, Piotr Indyk, Daniel Král, Cliff Stein (ex-officio member) |
| 2021 | Dániel Marx | Virtual (planned for Alexandria) | " |
| 2022 | Joseph Seffi Naor | Virtual (planned for Alexandria) | Shang-Hua Teng (Chair), Julia Chuzhoy, Piotr Indyk, Daniel Král, Blair Sullivan, Cliff Stein (ex-officio member) |
| 2023 | Nikhil Bansal | Florence, Italy | Piotr Indyk (Chair), Julia Chuzhoy, Robert Krauthgamer, Sang-il Oum, Blair Sullivan, Shang-Hua Teng (ex-officio member) |
| Year | Best Paper(s) |