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PODC 2027 will be held at Reykjavik University in Reykjavik, Iceland, on June 21-25, 2027.

PODC 2026 was held at Royal Holloway, University of London in Egham, England, on July 6-10, 2026.

  • See the accepted papers.
  • Invited speakers were:
  • The Best Paper Award was presented to Kahbod Aeini, Dante Bencivenga, George Giakkoupis and Philipp Woelfel for the paper “Simple and Efficient Randomized Wait-Free Locks”
  • The Best Student Paper Award was presented to Haoran Zhou for the paper
    “Efficient Counting and Simulation in Content-Oblivious Rings”, co-authored with Jérémie Chalopin, Yi-Jun Chang and Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna
  • The 2026 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing was awarded to Atish Das Sarma, Stephan Holzer, Liah Kor, Amos Korman, Danupon Nanongkai, Gopal Pandurangan, David Peleg, and Roger Wattenhofer for their paper “Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed Approximation“
  • Prasad Jayanti’s 60th Birthday Celebration was held during the conference.
  • Follow PODC on Twitter: @podc_disc.

Scope

The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing is an international forum on the theory, design, analysis, implementation and application of distributed systems and networks. We solicit papers in all areas of distributed computing. Papers from all viewpoints, including theory, practice, and experimentation, are welcome. The goal of the conference is to improve understanding of the principles underlying distributed computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following (in alphabetical order).

  • biological distributed algorithms and systems
  • coding and reliable communication
  • combinatorics and topology of distributed computing
  • communication networks
  • concurrency, synchronization, and persistence
  • design and analysis of concurrent and distributed algorithms and data structures
  • distributed and cloud storage, replication and consistency
  • distributed computing for machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data
  • distributed graph algorithms
  • distributed ledgers and decentralized finance protocols
  • distributed operating systems, middleware, and databases
  • distributed resource management and scheduling
  • fault-tolerance, reliability, self-organization, and self-stabilization
  • game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
  • high-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing
  • internet applications
  • lower bounds and impossibility results for distributed computing
  • mobile computing, population protocols and autonomous agents
  • models and languages for distributed computing
  • multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
  • peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks, and social networks
  • quantum and optics based distributed computing
  • security and cryptography in distributed computing
  • specifications, semantics, verification, and formal methods for distributed systems
  • system-on-chip and network-on-chip architectures
  • transactional memory
  • wireless, sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks