Schedule

High-Level Overview

Saturday, June 17th

  • 9:00 – 12:30: Tutorial: High-Level Executable Specification and Reasoning for Improving Distributed Algorithms

Monday, June 19th

  • Workshop: Advanced Tools, Programming Languages, and PLatforms for Implementing and Evaluating algorithms for Distributed systems (ApPLIED)
  • 9:00 – 11:00: Tutorial: Fault-Tolerant Distributed Optimization and Learning
  • 11:20 – 12:30 FCRC Plenary Session
    Kunle Olukotun: Computing in the Foundation Model Era

Tuesday, June 20th

8:50 – 9:55 PODC Keynote Session
Roger Wattenhofer: From Distributed Algorithms to Machine Learning and Back
9:55 – 10:55 Session: Dynamics
Break
11:20 – 12:30 FCRC Plenary Session
Margaret Martonosi: Taking on the World’s Challenges: The Role of Computing Research and Innovation
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Session: Distributed approximation
Break
16:15 – 17:15 Plenary panel discussion
17:30 – 19:30 Business Meeting

Wednesday, June 21st

8:50 – 10:55 Session: Data structures
Break
11:20 – 12:30 FCRC Plenary Session 
Shafi Goldwasser: Constructing and Deconstructing Trust: Employing Cryptographic Recipe in the ML Domain
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Session: Symmetry breaking
Break
16:00 – 18:05 Session: Networks
Break
19:00 – 22:00 Banquet

Thursday, June 22nd

8:50 – 10:50 Session: Byzantine agreement
Break
11:20 – 12:30 FCRC Plenary Session
Don Towsley: The Quantum Internet: Recent Advantages and Challenges
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:40 Session: Wireless
Break
16:00 – 17:30 Session: Complexity/impossibility

 

Friday, June 23rd

  • 11:20 – 12:30: FCRC Plenary Session
    Torsten Hoefler: Scalable and Efficient AI: From Supercomputers to Smartphones
  • Workshop: BDA
  • 14:00 – 17:00: Tutorial: Cryptography in Distributed Protocols
  • 9:00 – 11:00: Tutorial: Distributed computing with live streaming data

Detailed schedule

Saturday, June 17th

9:00 – 12:30: Tutorial (in conjunction with PLDI)

Y. Annie Liu, Scott Stoller: High-Level Executable Specification and Reasoning for Improving Distributed Algorithms

Monday, June 19th

11:20 – 12:30: FCRC Plenary Session

Kunle Olukotun: Computing in the Foundation Model Era

Workshop: ApPLIED

9:00 – 11:00: Tutorial

Lili Su and Nitin H. Vaidya: Fault-Tolerant Distributed Optimization and Learning

Tuesday, June 20th

8:50 – 9:55: PODC Keynote Session

Chair: Magnús M. Halldórsson

Roger Wattenhofer: From Distributed Algorithms to Machine Learning and Back

9:55 – 10:55: Session: Dynamics

Chair: George Giakkoupis

9:55 – 10:20 A Near Time-optimal Population Protocol for Self-stabilizing Leader Election on Rings with a Poly-logarithmic Number of States. Daisuke Yokota, Yuichi Sudo, Fukuhito Ooshita and Toshimitsu Masuzawa.
10:20 – 10:45 Fast Convergence of k-Opinion Undecided State Dynamics in the Population Protocol Model. Talley Amir, James Aspnes, Petra Berenbrink, Felix Biermeier, Christopher Hahn, Dominik Kaaser and John Lazarsfeld.
10:45 – 10:50 Brief Announcement: Efficient Collaborative Tree Exploration with Breadth-First Depth-Next. Romain Cosson, Laurent Massoulie and Laurent Viennot.
10:50 – 10:55 Brief Announcement: Population Protocols Decide Double-exponential Thresholds. Philipp Czerner.

11:20 – 12:30: FCRC Plenary Session

Margaret Martonosi: Taking on the World’s Challenges: The Role of Computing Research and Innovation

14:00 – 15:30: Session: Distributed approximation

Chair: Goran Zuzic

14:00 – 14:25 The Complexity of Distributed Approximation of Packing and Covering Integer Linear Programs. Yi-Jun Chang and Zeyong Li.
14:25 – 14:50 (1-ε)-Approximate Maximum Weighted Matching in poly(1/ε, log n) Time in the Distributed and Parallel Settings. Shang-En Huang and Hsin-Hao Su.
14:50 – 15:15 Efficient Distributed Decomposition and Routing Algorithms in Minor-Free Networks and Their Applications. Yi-Jun Chang.
15:15 – 15:20 Brief Announcement: Distributed Construction of Near-Optimal Compact Routing Schemes for Planar Graphs. Jinfeng Dou, Thorsten Götte, Henning Hillebrandt, Christian Scheideler and Julian Werthmann.
15:20 – 15:25 Brief Announcement: Minimum Cost Maximum Flow in the CONGEST Model. Tijn de Vos.
15:25 – 15:30 Brief Announcement: The Laplacian Paradigm in Deterministic Congested Clique. Tijn de Vos and Sebastian Forster

16:15 – 17:15: FCRC Plenary panel discussion

17:30 – 19:30: Business meeting

Wednesday, June 21st

8:50 – 10:55: Session: Data structures

Chair: Faith Ellen

8:50 – 9:15 Word-Size RMR Tradeoffs for Recoverable Mutual Exclusion. David Yu Cheng Chan, George Giakkoupis and Philipp Woelfel.
9:15 – 9:40 Asynchronous Wait-Free Runtime Verification and Enforcement of Linearizability. Armando Castañeda and Gilde Valeria Rodríguez.
9:40 – 10:05 The ERA Theorem for Safe Memory Reclamation. Gali Sheffi and Erez Petrank.
10:05 – 10:30 Efficient Bounded Timestamping from Standard Synchronization Primitives. Benyamin Bashari, Ali Jamadi and Philipp Woelfel.
10:30 – 10:55 A Wait-free Queue with Polylogarithmic Step Complexity. Hossein Naderibeni and Eric Ruppert.

11:20 – 12:30: FCRC Plenary Session

Shafi Goldwasser: Constructing and Deconstructing Trust: Employing Cryptographic Recipe in the ML Domain

14:00 – 15:30: Session: Symmetry breaking

Chair: Taisuke Izumi

14:00 – 14:25 Distributed MIS in O(log log n) Awake Complexity. Fabien Dufoulon, William K. Moses Jr. and Gopal Pandurangan.
14:25 – 14:50 Distributed MIS with Low Energy and Time Complexities. Mohsen Ghaffari and Julian Portmann.
14:50 – 15:15 Distributed Symmetry Breaking on Power Graphs via Sparsification. Yannic Maus, Saku Peltonen and Jara Uitto.
15:15 – 15:20 Brief Announcement: What Can We Compute in a Single Round of the Congested Clique? Peter Robinson.
15:20 – 15:25 Brief Announcement: Local Problems in the SUPPORTED Model. Akanksha Agrawal, John Augustine, David Peleg and Srikkanth Ramachandran.
15:25 – 15:30 Brief Announcement: Efficient Computation in Congested Anonymous Dynamic Networks. Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna and Giovanni Viglietta.

16:00 – 18:05: Session: Networks

Chair: Peter Davies

16:00 – 16:25 A Near-Optimal Deterministic Distributed Synchronizer. Mohsen Ghaffari and Anton Trygub.
16:25 – 16:50 Deterministic Fault-Tolerant Connectivity Labeling Scheme. Taisuke Izumi, Yuval Emek, Tadashi Wadayama and Toshimitsu Masuzawa.
16:50 – 17:15 Universally Composable Simultaneous Broadcast against a Dishonest Majority and Applications. Myrto Arapinis, Ábel Kocsis, Nikolaos Lamprou, Liam Medley and Thomas Zacharias.
17:15 – 17:40 Distributed Averaging in Opinion Dynamics. Petra Berenbrink, Colin Cooper, Cristina Gava, David Kohan Marzagão, Frederik Mallmann-Trenn, Tomasz Radzik and Nicolas Rivera.
17:40 – 18:05 Sparse Semi-Oblivious Routing: Few Random Paths Suffice. Goran Zuzic, Bernhard Haeupler and Antti Roeyskoe.

19:00 – 22:00: Banquet

Thursday, June 22nd

8:50 – 10:55: Session: Byzantine agreement

Chair: Seth Gilbert

8:50 – 9:15 BeeGees: Stayin’ Alive in Chained BFT. Neil Giridharan, Florian Suri-Payer, Matthew Ding, Heidi Howard, Ittai Abraham and Natacha Crooks.
9:15 – 9:40 Optimal Eventual Byzantine Agreement Protocols with Omission Failures. Kaya Alpturer, Joseph Halpern and Ron van der Meyden.
9:40 – 10:05 On the Amortized Communication Complexity of Byzantine Broadcast. Jun Wan, Atsuki Momose, Ling Ren, Elaine Shi and Zhuolun Xiang.
10:05 – 10:30 Distributed CONGEST Algorithms against Mobile Adversaries. Orr Fischer and Merav Parter.
10:30 – 10:35 Brief Announcement: Breaking the f+1 Barrier: Executing Payment Transactions in Parallel with Less than f+1 Validations. Rida Bazzi and Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni.
10:35 – 10:40 Brief Announcement: Discrete Incremental Voting. Colin Cooper, Tomasz Radzik and Takeharu Shiraga.
10:40 – 10:45 Brief Announcement: The MBroadcast Abstraction. Mathilde Déprés, Achour Mostéfaoui, Matthieu Perrin and Michel Raynal.
10:45 – 10:50 Brief Announcement: Improved Consensus in Quantum Networks. MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Dariusz Rafal Kowalski and Jan Olkowski.

11:20 – 12:30: FCRC Plenary Session

Don Towsley: The Quantum Internet: Recent Advantages and Challenges

14:00 – 15:40: Wireless

Chair: Przemysław Uznański

14:00 – 14:25 Uniting General-Graph and Geometric-Based Radio Networks via Independence Number Parametrization. Peter Davies.
14:25 – 14:50 Optimal Message-Passing with Noisy Beeps. Peter Davies.
14:50 – 15:15 Distributed Self-Stabilizing MIS with Few States and Weak Communication. George Giakkoupis and Isabella Ziccardi.
15:15 – 15:40 The Impact of Cooperation in Bilateral Network Creation. Tobias Friedrich, Hans Gawendowicz, Pascal Lenzner and Arthur Zahn.

16:00 – 17:30: Session: Complexity/impossibility

Chair: Philipp Woelfel

16:00 – 16:25 On the Validity of Consensus. Pierre Civit, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Jovan Komatovic and Manuel Vidigueira.
16:25 – 16:50 Deterministic Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing in Linear Time and Communication. Jan Olkowski, Bogdan Chlebus and Dariusz Kowalski.
16:50 – 17:15 Improved Tradeoffs for Leader Election. Shay Kutten, Peter Robinson, Ming Ming Tan and Xianbin Zhu.
17:15 – 17:20 Brief Announcement: Efficient Recoverable Writable-CAS. Prasad Jayanti, Siddhartha Visveswara Jayanti and Sucharita Jayanti.
17:20 – 17:25 Brief Announcement: Improved, Partially-Tight Multiplicity Queue Lower Bounds. Anh Tran and Edward Talmage.
17:25 – 17:30 Brief Announcement: CausalEC: A Causally Consistent Data Storage Algorithm based on Cross-Object Erasure Coding. Viveck Cadambe and Shihang Lyu.

 

Friday, June 23rd

11:20 – 12:30: FCRC Plenary Session

Torsten Hoefler: Scalable and Efficient AI: From Supercomputers to Smartphones

8:45 – 18:00: Workshop: BDA

schedule

14:00 – 17:00: Tutorial

Rotem Oshman and Vinod Vaikuntanathan: Cryptography in Distributed Protocols

Coffee break at 15:30

9:00 – 11:00: Tutorial

Adrian Kosowski, Krzysztof Nowicki, and Przemyslaw Uznanski (Pathway.com): Distributed computing with live streaming data