Conference Spotlight: ITCS and SODA

Abstract

The 16th Annual Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS) and the 36th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) took place in January in New York City and New Orleans, respectively. I attended both and will share my experience here, highlighting some of the similarities and differences between them. I am a postdoc working on parameterized algorithms, but this spotlight is written with a broad TCS audience in mind.