The best paper of SoCG 2024 is awarded to Sayan Bandyapadhyay and Jie Xue for their paper: An $O(n \log n)$-Time Approximation Scheme for Geometric Many-to-Many Matching. The paper is available here.

The best student paper award of SoCG 2024 goes to Rhuaidi Burke for his paper: Practical Software for Triangulating and Simplifying 4-Manifolds. The paper is available here.

The SoCG Test of Time Award 2024 goes to:

• Nina Amenta, Marshall W. Bern: Surface Reconstruction by Voronoi Filtering. SoCG 1998: 39-48 (proceedings version: [doi]; journal version: [doi]).
• David Avis, Komei Fukuda: A Pivoting Algorithm for Convex Hulls and Vertex Enumeration of Arrangements and Polyhedra. SoCG 1991: 98-104 (proceedings version: [doi]; journal version: [doi]).

The awards will be presented in a special session of CG Week 2024.

The SoCG Test of Time Award, instated four years ago, recognizes papers published in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG). An award will be given to a paper published at SoCG no later than 2004. More than one paper may be selected for the award.

Anyone in the computational geometry community may nominate a paper by submitting the nomination via e-mail to socgtot@gmail.com  with a subject line of SoCG Test of Time Award. The nomination should contain a brief explanation of the impact of the nominated paper(s). The deadline for submitting the nomination is February 15, 2024.

The winners are selected by a committee appointed by the SoCG steering committee. For 2024 it consists of Pankaj K. Agarwal (Duke University), Siu-Wing Cheng (HKUST), and Raimund Seidel (Saarland University). In selecting the Test of Time Award, the committee will pay particular attention to long term impact. This impact can come in many forms. Some possibilities are: (i) to open up a new area of research; (ii) to introduce new techniques; (iii) to solve a problem of lasting importance. The selection will be announced by March 15, 2024.

This is the fifth SoCG Test of Time Award. The winners of the previous awards can be found at https://computational-geometry.org/Awards/SoCG_Test_of_Time.html. The 2024 award winners will be presented at CG Week 2024, to be held in Athens, Greece, June 11—14, 2024.