The '''Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms''' ('''SODA''') is an [[academic conference]] in the fields of [[algorithm design]] and [[discrete mathematics]]. It is considered to be one of the top conferences for research in algorithms.{{citation<ref>For neededinstance, |dateSODA is the only conference with the top A* ranking in the [https://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/?search=Decemberalgorithms&by=all&source=CORE2023&sort=atitle&page=1 2023 CORE Rankings of algorithms 2017}}conferences].</ref> SODA has been organized annually since 1990, typically in January.<ref>{{citation |url=https://dblp.org/streams/conf/soda |title=Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) |publisher=[[DBLP]] |accessdate=2017-12-11}}</ref> SODA is jointly sponsored by the [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory ([[SIGACT]]) and the [[Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics|SIAM]] Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics, and in format is more similar to a [[theoretical computer science]] conference than to a mathematics conference.<ref>{{citation |first=Peter |last=Winkler |author-link=Peter Winkler |title=How (and Why!) to Write a SODA Paper |url=http://www.siam.org/meetings/da98/winkler.ps}}. Distributed by Howard Karloff with the [http://www.siam.org/meetings/da98/da98cfp.htm call for papers for SODA 1998].</ref>
