Schedule

The schedule is preliminary and subject to change.

Monday, June 22, 2026

09:00

Opening & Welcome 🎉

09:15

Invited Talk 1 · Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Algorithmic Primitives for Finding Dense Structures in Rich Graph Data · [more]

10:15

Coffee break ☕

Session 1 · Optimization and network design
Chair: Irene Finocchi
11:10

An Empirical Analysis of Approximation Algorithms for the Unweighted Tree Augmentation Problemcode

Luke Hawranick, Matthew Williamson, Jacob Restanio, K. Subramani, Cody Klingler

12:00
12:30

Lunch 🍽️

Session 2 · Compression
Chair: Hideo Bannai
14:50

From Relative Compression to Hierarchical Compressioncode

Philip Bille, Inge Li Gørtz, Máximo Pérez-López

15:15

Coffee break ☕

Session 3 · Practical and parallel algorithm engineering
Chair: Ulrich Meyer
16:10

Exploiting Multi-Core Parallelism in Blockchain Validation and Constructioncode

Arivarasan Karmegam, Lucianna Kiffer, Antonio Fernández Anta

16:35

Practical Parallel Block Tree Constructioncode

Robert Clausecker, Florian Kurpicz, Etienne Palanga

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

09:00

Invited Talk 2 · Inge Li Gørtz

Locality Sensitive Hashing and Compressed Computation · [more]

10:00

Coffee break ☕

Session 4 · Geometry
Chair: Sarita de Berg
10:30

Engineering Fully Dynamic Convex Hullscode

Ivor van der Hoog, Henrik Reinstädtler, Eva Rotenberg

10:55

A Practical Algorithm for (Geometry-Aware) Interleavings Between Merge Trees

Thijs Beurskens, Emil Toftegaard Gæde, Tim Ophelders, Willem Sonke, Bettina Speckmann, Kevin Verbeek

11:45
12:30

Lunch 🍽️

Session 5 · Data structures
Chair: Philip Bille
15:15

Wavelet Forests Revisitedcode

Eric Chiu, Dominik Kempa

17:00

Conference dinner 🍷 (at conference venue)

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

08:45

Invited Talk 3 · Sebastian Wild

Adaptive Sorting and Searching from Theory to Practice · [more]

09:45

Coffee break ☕

Session 6 · Integer programming and combinatorial optimization
Chair: Jon Lee
10:15
10:40

Integer Programming Models for the Median of a 0-1 String Set Under Levenshtein Distancecode

Claudio Arbib, Andrea D'Ascenzo, Oya E. Karaşan, Andrea Pizzuti

11:30

Lunch 🍽️

Session 7 · Graph algorithms
Chair: Ivor van der Hoog
13:00

BuffCut: Prioritized Buffered Streaming Graph Partitioningcode

Linus Baumgärtner, Adil Chhabra, Marcelo Fonseca Faraj, Christian Schulz

13:25

Different Scales of Randomness: Empirical Mixing Times of the Edge Switching and Curveball MCMCcode

Deepak Ajwani, Melvin Kallmayer, Alexander Leonhardt, Ulrich Meyer, Ryan O'Connor, Manuel Penschuck

13:50

Engineering Learned Heuristics to Improve Clustering for Multilevel Graph Partitioningcode

Simeon Schrape, Nikolai Maas, Kenneth Langedal, Daniel Seemaier

14:15

General Multiplicative Spanners in Practicecode

Fritz Bökler, Markus Chimani, Henning Jasper

14:40

Coffee break ☕

Session 8 · Hashing, filters, and combinatorial structures
Chair: Manuel Penschuk
16:30

SEA Business Meeting 📋