Young Researchers Forum 2025

Young Researchers Forum 2025 is an online event where young researchers (Masters students, PhDs, postdocs) working on PODC/DISC topics stand to benefit in multiple ways including giving talks, interacting with each other, and interacting with more senior researchers. The motivation is that there aren’t many opportunities for young researchers to advertise themselves & their work, especially for the ones who have little funding, have difficulties with visas, or got unlucky with submissions to the standard conferences.

June 13th, 2025

ALL TIMES ARE IN UTC+1. (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/uk)

9:00 - 9:05: Opening remarks

9:05 - 10:00: Keynote Christian Scheideler Open questions on three distributed computing topics

10:00 - 11:30: Junior talks (6)

* 10:00. Yuval Gil - New Distributed Interactive Proofs for Planarity: A Matter of Left and Right  [slides]
* 10:15. Manish Kumar - Near-Linear Time Leader Election in Multiagent Networks
* 10:30. Francesco d'Amore - Causal Limits of Distributed Computation [slides]
* 10:45. Massimo Equi - Distributed Quantum Advantage [slides]
* 11:00. Avinandan Das - Studying a Problem in different frameworks; Complexity of Partial coloring in Classical, LOCAL and Streaming
* 11:15. Denis Korotchenko - Universal mechanism of collaborative operations for multithreaded structures in Java

11:30 - 12:00: Junior-senior meeting (two in parallel)

Meeting 1
Senior: Christian Scheideler
Juniors: Manish Kumar, Chiara Piombi, Yuval Gil, Kirill Zaxarov, Francesco d'Amore

Meeting 2
Senior: Laurent Feuilloley
Juniors: Yann Bourreau, Florian Schager, Pappu Kumar, Ashish Saxena, Ramesh Adhikari, Ivana Klasovitá

12:00 - 13:00: Break

13:00 - 13:30: Junior-senior meetings (two in parallel)

Meeting 1
Senior: Vitaly Aksenov
Juniors: Ajay Singh, Maxime Flin, Augusto Modanese, Rishikesh Gajjala, Hossein Vahidi

Meeting 2
Senior:  Yannic Maus
Juniors: Tanvir Kaur, Kirill Garmanov, Massimo Equi, Denis Korotchenko, Avinandan Das

13:30 - 14:30: Junior talks (4)

* 13:30. Benjamin Jauregui - Separators and Applications in Sparse Classes of Graphs
* 13:45. Tanvir Kaur - Towards Maximal Independent Set with Fewer Agents [slides]
* 14:00. Ravil Galiev - The Next 700 Benchmarking Frameworks for Concurrent Data Structures [slides]
* 14:15. Kirill Garmanov - Linearizability checker for concurrent C++ data structures [slides]

14:30 - 14:45: Coffee break in break-out rooms

14:45 - 15:45: Junior talks (4)

* 14:45. Adri Bhattacharya - A Survey of Black Hole Search in Dynamic Graphs [slides]
* 15:00. Kirill Zaxarov - Speeding up SplayList using BatchBoost technique
* 15:15. Maxime Flin - Distributed Vertex Coloring in Bandwidth Constrained Models
* 15:30. Darya Melnyk – From Worst-Case to Best-Case: Meaningful Consensus in the Presence of Byzantine Faults [slides]

15:45 - 16:15: Keynote Peter Davies-Peck Distributed Lovasz Local Lemma

16:15 - 16:30: Closing remarks for the plenary event

16:30 - 17:00: Junior-senior meetings (two in parallel)

Meeting 1
Senior: Amanda Redlich
Juniors: Yaseen Abd-Elhaleem, Kritee Neupane, Ravil Galiev, Gagana M D

Meeting 2
Senior: William K. Moses Jr. (Billy)
Juniors: Benjamin Jauregui, Hongyan Ji, Haruki Kanaya, Henry Austin, Adri Bhattacharya

This is a purely online event.

If you would like to participate, please fill out the following form by June 11th, 2025. In particular, please note that we have already sent out a call for those who would like to give talks and for seniors who would like to participate more proactively. Now, we would like to collect the info of those who would just like to attend and listen, participate in group problem discussions, and participate in junior-senior meetings as juniors.

Please note that we would love to have both juniors and seniors attend, so please feel welcome to do so.

Form link: The form is now closed. Thanks to all that registered and participated.

If you register after June 10, we may not be able to add you to the junior-senior meetings, but you can still attend the event. For such late registration, in addition to the form, please also email the organizers.

Laurent Feuilloley - CNRS, LIRIS, University of Lyon, France

William K. Moses Jr. - Durham University, UK