20th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Munich, Germany
June 14 - 16, 2008

20 Years of SPAA
This year, we will celebrate 20 years of SPAA with a series of invited talks, a special track on hardware and software techniques for multicore machines, and a poster session.

The SPAA program is now available (in pdf, last update June 2, 2008).

SPAA '08 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) and organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

The SPAA Symposium was called the ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures from 1989 to 2002. The new name reflects the expanded scope of the conference as detailed below. SPAA '08 will feature regular papers, each with a 20-minute talk, and brief announcements, each with a 7-minute talk. The SPAA brief announcements are for brief communications including work in progress or demos. In addition to this, we will have a special track on hardware and software techniques for multicore machines and a poster session. Also, because of 20 years of SPAA, we will have presentations by the following invited speakers:

Hagit Attiya, Technion
Charles Leiserson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University
Arnold Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Burton Smith, Microsoft Research
Leslie Valiant, Harvard University

Note that immediately after SPAA 2008 the SIROCCO 2008 Conference will take place in Villars, Switzerland, which is not far away from Munich. So people who plan to attend SPAA may also think about attending SIROCCO and vice versa. Finally, there is one more good reason reason to come to SPAA:

On June 14-15, Munich will celebrate its 850th anniversary with an artists market and lots of shows in the center of Munich. More information (in German) can be found here.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadlines:
- Regular papers and special track: January 22
- Brief announcements and posters: February 1
These are firm deadlines. No extensions will be granted.

Notification: March 24

Camera-ready copy due: April 10.

Final versions of regular or special track papers are submitted here.
Brief announcements and posters are submitted here.
The format for posters to be displayed at the SPAA conference can be downloaded here. They are needed two weeks before the conference starts.

Early Conference Registration: May 14

Room Reservation Deadline: April 14

Further Information:

For detailed information about SPAA, please visit http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~spaa or follow the following links.

SPAA 2008 Call for Papers (in pdf or postscript)
A poster of SPAA 2008 is available in letter and DIN A4 format.
Call for Papers for Special Track
Paper Submission
Conference Program. The SPAA program is now available.
Registration
Local Information

If you need a visa to attend SPAA, please send your request for a letter in support of a visa application to Ashley Cozzi (acozzi@acm.org) at ACM headquarters, and include your name, mailing address, and fax number. Indicate that you plan to attend SPAA (authors of regular papers, brief announcements and posters should also include the title). Click here for more information.

Sponsors:

SPAA 2008 is sponsored in part by generous contributions from the following organizations:

Conference Organization:

Program Chair: Nir Shavit, Tel-Aviv University and Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Program Committee: Susanne Albers, University of Freiburg; Faith Ellen, University of Toronto; Rolf Fagerberg, University of Southern Denmark; Panagiota Fatourou, University of Ioannina; Alexandra Fedorova, Simon Fraser University; Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel; Christof Fetzer, Dresden University of Technology; Danny Hendler, Ben-Gurion University; Jim Larus, Microsoft Research; Emmanuelle Lebhar, CNRS Paris; Keith Lowery, AMD; Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University; Andrea Pietracaprina, University of Padova; Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University; Ravi Rajwar, Intel; Larry Rudolph, MIT; Vivek Sarkar, Rice University; Assaf Schuster, Technion
SPAA General Chair: Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, University of Paderborn
SPAA Secretary: Christian Scheideler, Technical University of Munich
SPAA Treasurer: Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University

SPAA Publicity Chair

Andrea W. Richa, Arizona State University

SPAA Steering Committee

Guy Blelloch, CMU

Thomas H. Cormen, Dartmouth

David Culler, UC Berkeley

Frank Dehne, Carleton University

Pierre Fraigniaud, University of Paris-Sud

Phil Gibbons, Intel Research

Maurice Herlihy, Brown University

Tom Leighton, MIT and Akamai Technologies

Charles Leiserson, MIT

Fabrizio Luccio, University of Pisa

Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, University of Paderborn

Gary Miller, CMU and Akamai Technologies

Burkhard Monien, University of Paderborn

Franco Preparata, Brown University

Vijaya Ramachandran, University of Texas, Austin

Arnold Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts

Paul Spirakis, CTI, Greece

Uzi Vishkin, University of Maryland

Questions and Comments: If you have any questions or comments, please send an email to spaa@cs.jhu.edu.

20th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Munich, Germany June 14 - 16, 2008

This year, we will celebrate 20 years of SPAA with a series of invited talks, a special track on hardware and software techniques for multicore machines, and a poster session. The SPAA program is now available (in pdf, last update June 2, 2008).

Munich, Germany
June 14 - 16, 2008

This year, we will celebrate 20 years of SPAA with a series of invited talks, a special track on hardware and software techniques for multicore machines, and a poster session.

The SPAA program is now available (in pdf, last update June 2, 2008).