Congratulations to ACO Ph.D. student Jacob Platnick and ACO faculty member Dana Randall, whose paper with New College of Florida’s David Gillman, “Splittable Spanning Trees and Balanced Forests in Dense Random Graphs,” received the Alejandro López-Ortiz Best Paper Award at the 2026 Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium (LATIN 2026). Their paper studies the probability that a random spanning tree of a (dense) random graph can be equi-partitioned into a fixed number of trees.
Dana Randall also gave a plenary talk at the symposium on "Local-global principles for programming collectives".
