We show that the perfect derived categories of Iyama's d-dimensional Auslander algebras of type A are equivalent to the partially wrapped Fukaya categories of the d-fold symmetric product of the 2-dimensional unit disk with finitely many stops on its boundary. Furthermore, we observe that Koszul duality provides an equivalence between the partially wrapped Fukaya categories associated to the d-fold symmetric product of the disk and those of its (n − d)-fold symmetric product; this observation leads to a symplectic proof of a theorem of Beckert concerning the derived Morita equivalence between the corresponding higher Auslander algebras of type A.As a byproduct of our results, we deduce that the partially wrapped Fukaya categories associated to the d-fold symmetric product of the disk organise into a paracyclic object equivalent to the d-dimensional Waldhausen S•-construction, a simplicial space whose geometric realisation provides the d-fold delooping of the connective algebraic K-theory space of the ring of coefficients. Contents 2. Fukaya categories of symmetric products of disks 2.1. The strands algebra B n,d 2.2. The quasi-equivalence W (d) n perf(A n,d ) 2.3. The quasi-equivalence W (d) n perf(A ∨ n,d ) 2.4. The quasi-equivalence W (d) n perf(A n,n−d ) 2.5. The Serre functor and Iyama's cluster tilting subcategory of W (d) n 2.6. Examples 3. Partially wrapped Fukaya categories and models for Waldhausen K-theory 3.1. The d-dimensional Waldhausen S • -construction 3.2. The equivalence W (d) n S d n