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Monday, July 6: Workshops and Tutorials
09:00 - 10:00 Student Spotlight Workshop 2026: Session 1 (Joint with PODC)
Naama Ben-David (Technion), Hanna Komlós (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 12:30 Student Spotlight Workshop 2026: Session 2 (Joint with PODC)
Naama Ben-David (Technion), Hanna Komlós (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Parallel Spatial Data Structures Grassroots Computing: Session 1 (Joint with PODC)
Yan Gu (University of California, Riverside), Ziyang Men (University of California, Riverside), Yihan Sun (University of California, Riverside) Idit Keidarl (Technion), Andrew Lewis-Pye (London School of Economics and Political Science), Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee
15:30 - 17:30 Grassroots Computing: Session 2 (Joint with PODC) Student Spotlight Workshop 2026: Poster Session (Joint with PODC)
Idit Keidarl (Technion), Andrew Lewis-Pye (London School of Economics and Political Science), Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science) Naama Ben-David (Technion), Hanna Komlós (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)


Tuesday, July 7: Conference Day 1 Venue: Queens Building Lecture Theatre ( Locate )
08:35 - 08:40 Opening Remarks
08:40 - 10:00 Session 1: Scheduling Algorithms
08:40 Faster EPTAS for Scheduling on Uniform Machines
Klaus Jansen (Kiel University), Björn Schumacher (Kiel University), Roberto Solis-Oba (Western University)
09:00 Lossless Robustification of Packet Scheduling Algorithms
Yossi Azar (Tel Aviv University), Or Vardi (Tel Aviv University)
09:20 Improved Approximation Algorithms for Parallel Task Scheduling and Multiple Cluster Scheduling
Bennet Edler (Kiel University), Klaus Jansen (Kiel University), Felix Ohnesorge (Kiel University), Lis Pirotton (Kiel University)
09:40 Online Span Minimization for Flexible Uniform Jobs
Mozhengfu Liu (Northwestern University), Samir Khuller (Northwestern University), Xueyan Tang (Nanyang Technological University)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:30 Session 2: Parallel (Shared-Memory) Graph Algorithms
10:30 A Practical Parallel Algorithm for Expander Decompositions
Robin Münk (Technical University of Munich)
10:50 Efficient Parallel (Δ + 1)-Edge-Coloring
Michael Elkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Ariel Khuzman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
11:10 Parallel Spectral Graph Sparsification via Low Diameter Decompositions
Yves Baumann (ETH Zurich), Gernot Zöcklein (ETH Zurich)
11:30 - 11:40 Short Break
11:40 - 12:20 Session 3: Brief Announcements: Fault Tolerance, Dispersion, and Consensus
11:40 Brief Announcement: Asynchronous Dispersion with Optimal Time Complexity
Debasish Pattanayak (Indian Institute of Technology Indore), Ajay Kshemkalyani (University of Illinois at Chicago), Manish Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras), Anisur Rahaman Molla (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Gokarna Sharma (Kent State University)
11:50 Brief Announcement: An Improved Lower Bound for Local Failover Routing on Directed Networks
Erik van den Akker (TU Dortmund), Klaus-Tycho Foerster (TU Dortmund)
12:00 Brief Announcement: Byzantine Generals with Stuttering Madness
Bo Pan (Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LIP6, Paris, France), Maria Potop-Butucaru (Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LIP6, Paris, France)
12:10 Brief Announcement: Discrete Incremental Voting - New Bounds for General Graphs and Expanders
Petra Berenbrink (University of Hamburg), Colin Cooper (King's College London), Thorsten Götte (University of Hamburg), Lukas Hintze (University of Hamburg), Tomasz Radzik (King's College London)
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Session 4: Concurrent Data Structures
14:00 uSTM: A Lightweight and Efficient STM Supporting General Types and Deferred Aborts
Zachary Kent (Carnegie Mellon University), Guy Blelloch (Carnegie Mellon University), André Costa (Carnegie Mellon University)
14:20 KDB: A Scalable Persistent Key-Value Store with Atomic Batches and Snapshots
Tadeusz Kobus (Poznan University of Technology), Maciej Kokociński (Poznan University of Technology), Krzysztof Kortas (Poznan University of Technology), Paweł T. Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology)
14:40 Big Atomics: Non-Blocking Algorithms with a Direct Fast Path
Daniel Anderson (Carnegie Mellon University), Guy Blelloch (Carnegie Mellon University), Zachary Kent (Carnegie Mellon University), Siddhartha Jayanti (Dartmouth College)
15:00 - 15:05 Short Break
15:05 - 16:05 Session 5: Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems
15:05 Asynchronous Verifiable Information Dispersal with Low Space and Communication Complexity
Thomas Locher (DFINITY), Yvonne-Anne Pignolet (DFINITY)
15:25 Towards Reliable Broadcast with Optimal Communication and Round Complexity
Thomas Locher (DFINITY), Victor Shoup (Category Labs)
15:45 Deterministic Fault-Tolerant Local Load Balancing and its Applications against Adaptive Adversaries
Dariusz R. Kowalski (Augusta University), Jan Olkowski (Independent Researcher)
16:05 - 16:25 Coffee
16:25 - 17:35 Session 6: PODC/SPAA Joint Keynote Talk 1
16:25 Keynote Talk: Parallel Algorithm Engineering Reconsidered
Peter Sanders (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
17:35 - 17:45 Short Break
17:45 - 19:15 SPAA Business Meeting


Wednesday, July 8: Conference Day 2 Venue: Queens Building Lecture Theatre ( Locate )
08:40 - 10:00 Session 1: Parallel and (More) Concurrent Data Structures
08:40 Parallel Metric Skip Lists and Nearest Neighbor Search
Xiangyun Ding (University of California, Riverside), Rohin Garg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Yan Gu (University of California, Riverside), Yihan Sun (University of California, Riverside)
09:00 Fast Concurrent Primitives Despite Contention
Michael A. Bender (Stony Brook University), Guy Blelloch (Carnegie Mellon University), Martin Farach-Colton (New York University), Yang Hu (Tsinghua University), Rob Johnson (VMware Research), Rotem Oshman (Tel-Aviv University and New York University), Renfei Zhou (Carnegie Mellon University)
09:20 Fast and Theoretically Efficient Batch-Parallel Link-Cut Trees, Euler Tour Trees, and Treaps
Quinten De Man (University of Maryland), Laxman Dhulipala (University of Maryland)
09:40 CleanANN: Efficient and Robust Full Dynamism in Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
Ziyu Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Yuanhao Wei (University of British Columbia), Joshua Engels (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Julian Shun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:00 - 10:25 Coffee
10:25 - 11:25 Session 2: Energy-Efficient Computing
10:25 Exponential Energy Savings in Local Distributed Graph Algorithms
Mohsen Ghaffari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Zi Song Yeoh (Boston University)
10:45 Energy-Efficient Aggregation and Minimum-Degree Spanning Trees in Radio Networks
Yi-Jun Chang (National University of Singapore), Yang Ze Guan (National University of Singapore)
11:05 Minimizing Total Flow Time in the Online Active-Time Scheduling Model
Susanne Albers (Technische Universität München), Gorsha Wessel van der Heijden (Technische Universität München)
11:25 - 11:30 Short Break
11:30 - 12:20 Session 3: Brief Announcements: Performance Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization
11:30 Brief Announcement: An Automatic Framework for High Performance Alternative Basis Fast Matrix Multiplication
Niv Bruker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Oded Schwarz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Noa Vaknin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
11:40 Brief Announcement: An I/O-Efficient Parallel FFT for Heterogeneous Architectures via a Single Global Exchange
Shina Guo (College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University), Weiguo Gao (School of Mathematics, School of Data Science, Fudan University), Yuan Tang (College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University)
11:50 Brief Announcement: PRESERVE: Prefetching Model Weights and KV-Cache in Distributed LLM Serving
Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler (Huawei Research Zurich), Jiawei Zhuang (Huawei Research Zurich), Lukas Cavigelli (Huawei Research Zurich)
12:00 Brief Announcement: Tiered Memory Computation
Marcos K. Aguilera (NVIDIA), Naama Ben-David (Technion), N. Efe Çekirge (Dartmouth College), Siddhartha Jayanti (Dartmouth College)
12:10 Brief Announcement: Energy-Time Trajectories: A Tool to Understand Complex Parallel Efficiency
Peter M. Kogge (University of Notre Dame)
12:20 - 14:10 Lunch
14:10 - 15:30 Session 4: Distributed Graph Algorithms
14:10 Distributed Dominating Set With Optimal Rounds and Message Size in Bounded Arboricity Graphs
Sharareh Alipour (Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS), Khatam University), Ermiya Farokhnejad (University of Warwick)
14:30 Time-, Message- and Memory-Optimal Distributed Minimum Spanning Tree and Partwise Aggregation
Michael Elkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Tanya Goldenfeld (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
14:50 Near-Optimal Bounds for Adversarial Wake-up in Distributed Networks
Peter Robinson (Augusta University), Ming Ming Tan (Augusta University)
15:10 Deterministic Distance Approximation in MPC via Improved Hitting Sets
Kyungjin Cho (TU Graz), Michal Dory (University of Haifa), Yannic Maus (TU Graz), Tijn de Vos (TU Graz)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 17:00 Session 5: Paging and PIM Scheduling
16:00 Tight Latency Guarantees for Weighted Caching with Delayed Hits
Joseph (Seffi) Naor (Technion), Tomer Tsachor (Technion)
16:20 Non-Clairvoyant Scheduling for Processing-in-Memory
Hongbo Kang (Tsinghua University), Yiwei Zhao (Carnegie Mellon University), Kunal Agrawal (Washington University in St. Louis), Yongwei Wu (Tsinghua University), Phillip B. Gibbons (Carnegie Mellon University)
16:40 The Local/Global Disk Problem: How to Use Shared High-Bandwidth Storage Economically
Michael A. Bender (Stony Brook University), Philip Bille (DTU Compute), Martin Farach-Colton (New York University), Jeremy Fineman (Georgetown University), Michael Goodrich (University of California, Irvine), Hanna Komlós (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Inge Li Gørtz (DTU Compute), Bradley C. Kuszmaul (RelationalAI), William Kuszmaul (Carnegie Mellon University), Rose Silver (Carnegie Mellon University), Todd Veldhuizen (RelationalAI), Renfei Zhou (Carnegie Mellon University)
17:00 - 19:30 Long Break
19:30 - 21:30 Banquet


Thursday, July 9: Conference Day 3 Venue: Queens Building Lecture Theatre ( Locate )
08:40 - 10:00 Session 1: Performance Analysis and Optimization for Modern Computing Systems
08:40 Reducing Off-Chip Prefetch Request Latency of LLC Hardware Prefetchers via Neural Prediction
Zhengwei Huang (NUDT, Changsha, China), Wei Guo (NUDT, Changsha, China), Yongwen Wang (NUDT, Changsha, China)
09:00 PaHiS: A Hierarchical Synchronous Parallel Model for Irregular Workloads
Petros Anastasiadis (Computing Systems Laboratory, Huawei Technologies, Zurich, Switzerland), Denis Jelovina (Computing Systems Laboratory, Huawei Technologies, Zurich, Switzerland), Albert-Jan N. Yzelman (Computing Systems Laboratory, Huawei Technologies, Zurich, Switzerland)
09:20 Design Tradeoffs in Backend Organization in Out-Of-Order RISC-V Processors
Esther Alonso (University of Cantabria), Pablo Abad (University of Cantabria), Pablo Prieto (University of Cantabria), Valentin Puente (University of Cantabria)
09:40 Scheduler Augmentation: A Lightweight, Customizable, Low-Cost Profiling Technique for Fork-Join Parallel Programs
Sam Westrick (New York University), Darshan Dinesh Kumar (New York University), Seong-Heon Jung (New York University)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:30 Session 2: SPAA Parallel Computing Award Talk
10:30 Keynote Talk: Lessons Learned from Four Decades of Parallel Computing
Phillip Gibbons (Carnegie Mellon University)
11:30 - 11:40 Short Break
11:40 - 12:20 Session 3: Brief Announcements: Concurrency, Partitioning, and Scheduling
11:40 Brief Announcement: QPID: A Scalable, Strict Concurrent Priority Queue
Olivia Grimes (Lehigh University), Matthew Rodriguez (Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg), Ahmed Hassan (Lehigh University), Michael Spear (Lehigh University), Roberto Palmieri (Lehigh University)
11:50 Brief Announcement: Recyclable Optimistic-Traversal Data Structures
Md Amit Hasan Arovi (The Pennsylvania State University), Ruslan Nikolaev (The Pennsylvania State University)
12:00 Brief Announcement: Direction-incentivized Spectral Partitioning for Acyclic Graphs
Dimosthenis Pasadakis (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)), Raphael S. Steiner (Huawei Research Center Zurich, Computing Systems Lab), Pál András Papp (Huawei Research Center Zurich, Computing Systems Lab), Toni Böhnlein (Huawei Research Center Zurich, Computing Systems Lab), Albert-Jan N. Yzelman (Huawei Research Center Zurich, Computing Systems Lab)
12:10 Brief Announcement: Scheduling Problems with Constrained Rejections
Sami Davies (UC Berkeley and Relational AI), Venkatesan Guruswami (Simons Institute and UC Berkeley), Xuandi Ren (UC Berkeley)
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Session 4: More Distributed Algorithms
14:00 Non-Uniform Content-Oblivious Leader Election on Oriented Asynchronous Rings
Jérémie Chalopin (CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université), Yi-Jun Chang (National University of Singapore), Lyuting Chen (National University of Singapore), Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna (University of Rome - Sapienza), Haoran Zhou (National University of Singapore)
14:20 Universal Deterministic Symmetry Breaking Between Anonymous Agents in Networks
Bibhuti Das (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada), Andrzej Pelc (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada)
14:40 Composable Coresets for Fair Diversity Maximization
Ali Ahmadvand (Sharif University of Technology), Mohammad Ansari (Sharif University of Technology), Mobin Razavi (Sharif University of Technology), Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh (Sharif University of Technology)
15:00 - 15:15 Short Break
15:15 - 16:15 Session 5: Lower Bounds and Optimality
15:15 Cell-Probe Lower Bounds for Data Structures in CRCW PRAM
Peyman Afshani (Aarhus University), Magnus Christian Ring Merrild (Aarhus University)
15:35 Communication Lower Bounds and Algorithms for Sketching with Random Dense Matrices
Hussam Al Daas (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Grey Ballard (Wake Forest University), Laura Grigori (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Md Taufique Hussain (Wake Forest University), Suraj Kumar (INRIA Lyon), Mohammad Marufur Rahman (Wake Forest University), Kathryn Rouse (Inmar Intelligence)
15:55 Near-Optimal Parallel Approximate Counting via Sampling
David G. Harris (University of Maryland), Vladimir Kolmogorov (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Hongyang Liu (Nanjing University), Yitong Yin (Nanjing University), Yiyao Zhang (Nanjing University)
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee
16:45 - 17:55 Session 6: PODC/SPAA Joint Keynote Talk 2
16:25 Keynote Talk: Highly Asynchronous Concurrency in Data Structures
Robert Tarjan (Princeton University)
17:55 - 18:00 Closing Remarks