December 14-17, 2025

Sydney, Australia

Paper Awards

Best Paper Award co-winners

  • Explicit Lossless Vertex Expanders
    Authors: Jun-Ting Hsieh, Alexander Lubotzky, Sidhanth Mohanty, Assaf Reiner, and Rachel Yun Zhang
  • Quasipolynomial bounds for the corners theorem
    Authors: Michael Jaber, Yang P. Liu, Shachar Lovett, Anthony Ostuni, and Mehtaab Sawhney
  • Breaking a Long-Standing Barrier: 2-ε Approximation for Steiner Forest
    Authors: Ali Ahmadi, Iman Gholami, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Peyman Jabbarzade, and Mohammad Mahdavi

Machtey Award for Best Student Paper co-winners

  • Gödel in Cryptography: Effectively Zero Knowledge Proofs for NP with No Interaction, No Setup, and Perfect Soundness
    Author: Rahul Ilango
  • Obfuscation of Unitary Quantum Programs
    Authors: Mi-Ying (Miryam) Huang and Er-Cheng Tang