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Monday, 8th June

08:00 - 09:00 Registration
08:20 - 08:50 Coffee/Tea
08:50 - 09:00 Welcome/Introductory remarks

Session chair: Ola Svensson

09:00 - 09:50 Invited survey talk: Ellen Vitercik — Survey on machine learning for combinatorial optimization
09:50 - 10:20 Daniel DeLayo — Don’t Melt Your Cache: Low Associativity with Heat Sink
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break

Session chair: Artur Czumaj

10:50 - 11:40 Invited survey talk: Pravesh Kothari — Eigenvalues of Kikuchi Graphs and Their (Many) Applications
11:40 - 12:10 Davi Castro-Silva — Algorithmic Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa Theorem
12:10 - 12:40 Michał Seweryn — Polynomial Bounds for the Graph Minor Structure Theorem
12:40 - 14:10 Lunch

Session chair: Ioana Bercea

Yotam Kenneth-Mordoch and Robert Krauthgamer Faster All-Pairs Minimum Cut: Bypassing Exact Max-Flow
Kurt Mehlhorn A Counterexample to EFX, $n \ge 3$ Agents, $m \ge n + 5$ Items, Monotone Valuations via SAT-Solving
Ce Jin, Yael Kirkpatrick, Michal Stawarz and Virginia Vassilevska Williams Improved Additive Approximation Algorithms for APSP
Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang, Robert Krauthgamer, Shay Sapir, Sandeep Silwal and Di Yue Dimension Reduction for Clustering: The Curious Case of Discrete Centers
Jannis Blauth and Ramin Mousavi A Constant-Factor Approximation for Directed Latency
Hendrik Fichtenberger, Michael Kapralov, Ekaterina Kochetkova, Silvio Lattanzi, Davide Mazzali and Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska Spectral Clustering with Side Information
Marta Piecyk and Paweł Rzążewski List coloring ordered graphs with forbidden induced subgraphs
Asaf Shapira, Ronitt Rubinfeld, Shlomo Tauber, Cassandra Marcussen and Ted Pyne A Fast Coloring Oracle for Average Case Hypergraphs
David Orlando Alejandro Aleman Espinosa, Naveen Garg, Sharat Ibrahimpur, Neil Olver and Chaitanya Swamy Stochastic Load Balancing with Machine Reservations
Maxime Flin, Magnús M. Halldórsson, Manuel Jakob and Yannic Maus Sublogarithmic Distributed Vertex Coloring with Optimal Number of Colors
Antoine El-Hayek, Monika Henzinger and Jason Li Deterministic and Exact Fully-dynamic Minimum Cut of Superpolylogarithmic Size in Subpolynomial Time
Tim A. Hartmann and Dániel Marx Independence and Domination on Bounded-Treewidth Graphs
Debarati Das, Evangelos Kipouridis and Joachim Spoerhase Tree Violation Distance under Constraints
Christian Coester, Yichen Huang and Michael Mitzenmacher Competitive Online Clustering with Movement Cost
Davin Choo, Billy Jin and Yongho Shin Learning-Augmented Online Bipartite Fractional Matching
Christian Coester, Alexa Tudose and Alexander Turoczy Learning-Augmented Online Minimization with Dual Predictions
Filip Jasionowicz and Sandra Kiefer Finding Induced Detours in Linear Time on Interval and Circular-Arc Graphs
Ziad Ismaili Alaoui, Tamio-Vesa Nakajima, Namrata and Sebastian Wild Rooting Out Entropy: Optimal Tree Extraction for Ultra-Succinct Graphs
Robert Andrews, Jules Armand, Prateek Dwivedi, Magnus Rahbek Dalgaard Hansen, Nutan Limaye, Srikanth Srinivasan and Sébastien Tavenas On Closure Properties of Read-Once Oblivious Algebraic Branching Programs
Dimitris Fotakis, Charalampos Platanos and Thanos Tolias Online Resource Allocation via Static Bundle Pricing
Gramoz Goranci, Shaofeng Jiang, Peter Kiss, Qihao Kong, Yi Qian and Eva Szilagyi Tree Embedding in High Dimensions: Dynamic and Massively Parallel
15:40 - 16:40 Coffee Break & Poster Session

Session chair: Robi Krauthgamer

16:40 - 17:10 Sam Hopkins — SoS Certifiability of Subgaussian Distributions and its Algorithmic Applications
17:10 - 17:40 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi — Breaking a Long-Standing Barrier: $2-\epsilon$ Approximation for Steiner Forest
17:40 - 18:10 Ekin Ergen — Online Makespan Scheduling under Scenarios

Tuesday, 9th June

08:30 - 09:00 Coffee/Tea

Session chair: Per Austrin

09:00 - 09:50 Invited survey talk: Danupon Nanongkai — Recent Advances in Fast Graph Algorithms
09:50 - 10:20 Timothy M. Chan — A Linear Time Algorithm for the Maximum Overlap of Two Convex Polygons Under Translation
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break

Session chair: Fabrizio Grandoni

10:50 - 11:40 Invited survey talk: Shuchi Chawla — A survey on optimization with costly information
11:40 - 12:10 Jun-Ting Hsieh — Explicit Lossless Vertex Expanders
12:10 - 12:40 Martin Costa — Vizing’s Theorem in Near-Linear Time
12:40 - 14:10 Lunch

Session chair: Ola Svensson

Mika Göös, Nathaniel Harms, Artur Riazanov, Anastasia Sofronova, Dmitry Sokolov and Weiqiang Yuan Pseudodeterministic Communication Complexity
Thekla Hamm, Sukanya Pandey and Krisztina Szilagyi A Polynomial Kernel for Face Cover on Non-Embedded Planar Graphs
Sayan Bhattacharya, Ermiya Farokhnejad and Haoze Wang Additive One Approximation for Minimum Degree Spanning Tree: Breaking the $O(mn)$ Time Barrier
Ben Bals, Matei Tinca and Solon P. Pissis Optimal Enumeration of Eulerian Trails in Directed Graphs
Bartłomiej Dudek, Nick Fischer, Geri Gokaj, Ce Jin, Marvin Künnemann, Xiao Mao and Mirza Redzic Classifying Identities: Subcubic Distributivity Checking and Hardness from Arithmetic Progression Detection
Sebastian Lüderssen, Stefan Neumann and Pan Peng Near-Optimal Four-Cycle Counting in Graph Streams
Grzegorz Ryn and Jakub Kozik Two-colorability and Sharp Thresholds in Random Non-Uniform Hypergraphs
Anne Driemel, Jan Höckendorff, Ioannis Psarros, Christian Sohler and Di Yue Near Linear Time Approximation Schemes for Clustering of Partially Doubling Metrics
Kunal Dutta, Agastya Vibhuti Jha and Haotian Jiang Near-Optimal Constructive Bounds for $\ell_2$ Prefix Discrepancy and Steinitz Problems via Affine Spectral Independence
Simon Döring, Philip Wellnitz, Sarah Houdaigoui and Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta The Complexity of Finding and Counting Subtournaments
Simone Moretti, Paolo Pellizzoni, Andrea Pietracaprina and Geppino Pucci Dynamic $k$-center clustering with lifetimes
Amir Carmel and Robert Krauthgamer Stable coresets: Unleashing the power of uniform sampling
Jakob Greilhuber and Dániel Marx The Price of Being Partial: Complexity of Partial Generalized Dominating Set on Bounded-Treewidth Graphs
Simone Moretti, Paolo Pellizzoni and Francesco Silvestri Dimensionality Reduction on Complex Vector Spaces for Euclidean Distance with Dynamic Weights
Anita Dürr, Karol Węgrzycki and Karl Bringmann Tight (S)ETH-based Lower Bounds for Pseudopolynomial Algorithms for Bin Packing and Multi-Machine Scheduling
Elad Tzalik and Elizaveta Popova New Greedy Spanners and Applications
Arnold Filtser and Ameet Gadekar FPT approximations for Capacitated Sum of Radii and Diameters
Hannaneh Akrami, Ryoga Mahara, Kurt Mehlhorn and Nidhi Rathi Achieving EF1 and Epistemic EFX Guarantees Simultaneously
Nathan Wallheimer, Ron Safier and Amir Abboud Triangle Detection in H-Free Graphs
Aryan Agarwala and Nithin Varma Pseudodeterministic Algorithms for Minimum Cut Problems
15:40 - 16:40 Coffee Break & Poster Session

Session chair: Tobias Mömke

16:40 - 17:10 Agastya Jha — Quasi-Monte Carlo Beyond Hardy-Krause
17:10 - 17:40 Natalie Collina — Swap Regret and Correlated Equilibria Beyond Normal-Form Games
17:40 - 18:10 Light dinner sponsored by Jane Street
18:10 - 19:30 Business Meeting

Wednesday, 10th June

08:30 - 09:00 Coffee/Tea

Session chair: Standa Zivny

09:00 - 09:50 Invited survey talk: Virginia Vassilevska Williams — On matrix multiplication algorithms
09:50 - 10:20 Nutan Limaye — Algorithms for the Diverse-k-SAT problem: the geometry of satisfying assignments
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break

Session chair: Aristides Gionis

10:50 - 11:40 Invited survey talk: Jon Kleinberg — Language Generation in the Limit
11:40 - 12:10 Sitan Chen — Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked Diffusions
12:10 - 12:40 Neekon Vafa — Symmetric Perceptrons, Number Partitioning and Lattices
12:40 - 14:10 Lunch

Session chair: Ioana Bercea

Negar Babashah, Hasti Karimi, Masoud Seddighin and Golnoosh Shahkarami Distortion of Multi-Winner Elections on the Line Metric: The Polar Comparison Rule
Quentin Hillebrand, Pasin Manurangsi, Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn and Phanu Vajanopath Improved Differentially Private Algorithms for Rank Aggregation
Konrad Anand, Weiming Feng, Graham Freifeld, Heng Guo, Mark Jerrum and Jiaheng Wang Rapid mixing of the flip chain over non-crossing spanning trees
Mikkel Thorup, Hanzhi Wang, Zhewei Wei and Mingji Yang PageRank Centrality in Directed Graphs with Bounded In-Degree
Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena, Arturo Merino, Mads Anker Nielsen and Kevin Schewior Combinatorial Perpetual Scheduling: Existence and Computation of Low-Height Schedules
Michael A. Bender, Martín Farach-Colton, Michael T. Goodrich and Hanna Komlos History-Independent Dynamic Partitioning with Applications to B-Trees, Skip Lists and Fusion Trees
Nick Fischer, Evangelos Kipouridis, Jonas Klausen and Mikkel Thorup A Faster Algorithm for Constrained Correlation Clustering
Anastasios Kyrillidis, Ria Stevens, Jasper Liao, Barbara Su and Jianqiang Li Exploiting Low-Rank Structure in Max-K-Cut Problems
Harish Chandramouleeswaran, Ilan Newman, Tomer Pelleg and Nithin Varma Testing forbidden order-pattern properties on hypergrids
Florian Schager, Yannic Maus and Alexandre Nolin Fast Deterministic Distributed Degree Splitting
Shubhransh Singhvi Optimally Decoding Two-Dimensional Reed-Solomon Codes Against Deletion Errors
Daniel Agassy, Dani Dorfman and Haim Kaplan Improved Tree Sparsifiers in Near-Linear Time
Michael Kapralov, Ekaterina Kochetkova and Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska Spectral Clustering in Birthday Paradox Time
Emilio Cruciani, Sebastian Forster and Antonis Skarlatos Incremental (k, z)-Clustering on Graphs
José Correa, Andrés Cristi, Vasilis Livanos, Víctor Verdugo and Jiechen Zhang On the Informativeness of Moments in Optimal Stopping
Hung Le, Lazar Milenković, Shay Solomon and Tianyi Zhang Covering the Euclidean Plane by a Pair of Trees
Karthik Gajulapalli, Alexander Golovnev, Sam King and Sidhant Saraogi Online Orthogonal Vectors Revisited
Venkatesan Guruswami, Xin Lyu and Weiqiang Yuan Cell-Probe Lower Bounds via Semi-Random CSP Refutation: Simplified and the Odd-Locality Case
Paul Paschmanns and Vera Traub The Bidirected Cut Relaxation for Steiner Tree: Better Integrality Gap Bounds and the Limits of Moat Growing
Yi-Jun Chang, Yanyu Chen, Dipan Dey, Yonggang Jiang, Gopinath Mishra, Hung Thuan Nguyen and Mingyang Yang The Complexity of Distributed Minimum Weight Cycle Approximation
Robert Krauthgamer and Dvir Peretz Streaming Geometric Problems with Bounded Deletions
15:40 - 16:40 Coffee Break & Poster Session

Session chair: Guy Even

16:40 - 17:10 Bobby Kleinberg — Algorithms for Omniprediction
17:10 - 17:40 Maxwell Fishelson — Breaking the $T^{2/3}$ Barrier for Sequential Calibration

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