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2024-02-06: Conference Registration and Travel Information

The registration page for the conference will open soon. In the meantime, we would like to provide some information to help you with your travel arrangements.

• Presentation Requirement:
  Every accepted full paper requires an in-person presentation by one of the authors at the conference site. Additionally, at least one full registration is required per accepted full paper.

• What’s Included in the Registration:
  The registration fee will cover the following:

  • Welcome reception on the evening of June 1
  • Lunches on June 2–4
  • Banquet ticket
  • Excursion costs
  • Round-trip bus transportation from Athens International Airport (ATH - Eleftherios Venizelos) to Delphi, with two fixed schedules

• Bus Transportation Details:
  To assist with your travel planning:

  • A bus will depart from Athens International Airport to Delphi on Sunday, June 1, around 4 PM (exact time to be confirmed).
  • Return transportation from Delphi to the airport will be offered at two potential times:
    • Evening of June 4, departure around 6–7 PM (details to be confirmed), and/or
    • Early morning of June 5, departure around 8am (details to be confirmed)
  • The commute between Athens and Delphi takes approximately 2.5-3 hours.
  • When registering, you will be asked to indicate your preference for the return trip (either the evening of June 4 or the morning of June 5).

• Accommodation Options:
  Accommodation is not included in the registration package. During registration (or after completing it), you will have the option to book accommodation at the conference venue https://eccd.gr/en/delphi/ (external link) , the European Cultural Centre of Delphi (ECCD).

  • Guesthouses can be viewed  here https://eccd.gr/en/delphi/guesthouse/ (external link, opens in new window)   .
  • Estimated costs (final prices to be confirmed soon):
    • €80/night for a single room
    • €95/night for a double room
  • Breakfast is included with the accommodation.
  • Alternatively, participants can arrange accommodations in the village of Delphi, located about 10–15 minutes walking distance from the conference venue.

We look forward to welcoming you to the conference!

Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing 2025

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing is awarded to Sergio Rajsbaum from the Instituto de Matematicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Sergio has been a major contributor to the field of Distributed Computing since its early days, with numerous publications of breakthrough results. These include 17 papers in SIROCCO throughout the years.

Sergio has played a central role in developing the theory of distributed computing, in particular, in developing and using the topological approach as described in his "ACM Notable Books of the Year"-listed book "Distributed Computing through Combinatorial Topology", co-authored with Maurice Herlihy and Dmitry Kozlov. Along with many co-authors, Sergio has been a leading figure in advancing the basic wait-free asynchronous read/write shared memory model to t-resilient models, more powerful shared memory objects, synchronous or partially synchronous message-passing models, and dependent or Byzantine failures. He also introduced novel tasks like loop agreement and symmetry breaking and developed fundamental undecidability results on task solvability. A remarkable feature of Sergio’s research work is its breadth and the various bridges to other areas and application domains. Notable examples of the former are a suite of papers devoted to runtime verification, his work on interval linearizability, and his well-cited contributions to condition-based consensus and layered analysis. Among Sergio's interdisciplinary work are ground-breaking publications on simplicial epistemic multi-agent logic and contributions to robot coordination.

For his pioneering advancements in the theory of distributed computing, the 2025 Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing will hence be awarded to Sergio Rajsbaum at SIROCCO’25 (June 2-4, 2025) in Delphi, Greece.

The 2025 Award committee:

• Keren Censor-Hillel (Technion, Israel)
• Yuval Emek (Technion, Israel)
• Paola Flocchini (University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Merav Parter (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
• Christian Scheideler (University of Paderborn, Germany)