PODC 2018 Review

The 2018 ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2018) was held on July 23-27, at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Egham, UK (see Figure 1). This venue achieved a nice balance between two opposing desirable features of a conference location: being remote enough to encourage conference participants to attend most of the talks, and being central enough to allow for enjoyable tourism. Royal Holloway is only a 15 minute drive from Windsor Castle (see Figure 2), and about an hour away from central London. This allowed conference attendees to enjoy London before and after the conference, but also created a lively atmosphere in the lecture hall and during breaks, as most conference attendees remained in the area.