Conferences in Theoretical Computer Science

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Deadline ahead

Conference City, Country Deadline Date Notification Submission format and comments
CP Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming Lisbon, Portugal 2/14 March 2026 20-23 July 2026 30 April 2026 LIPIcs, double-blind, 15 pages full, 8 pages short, both excluding references; part of FLoC
Euro-Par European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Pisa, Italy 6/13 March 2026 24-28 August 2026 30 April 2026 LNCS, 14 pages
CONCEPTS Conceptual Knowledge Structures Montpellier, France 8/15 March 2026 31 August - 4 September 2026 20 April 2026 LNCS, regular track only, 16 pages long, 8 pages short
SCN Security and Cryptography for Networks Amalfi (SA), Italy 14 March 2026 14-16 September 2026 28 April 2028 LNCS, 20 pages excluding references
PATAT Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling Nottingham, United Kingdom 17 March 2026 25-28 August 2026 15 May 2026 LNCS clone, 12 pages full, 4 pages abstracts
HALG Highlights of Algorithms Stockholm, Sweden 3 April 2026 8-10 June 2026 early April no proceedings
QEST Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems Liverpool, United Kingdom 3/10 April 2026 2-4 September 2026 24 May 2026 LNCS, 16 pages regular, 7 pages short, both excluding references; part of CONFEST
FORMATS Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems Liverpool, United Kingdom 3/10 April 2026 2-4 September 2026 24 May 2026 LNCS, 16 pages regular, 7 pages short, both excluding references; part of CONFEST
DLT Developments in Language Theory Rouen, France 6 March 2026 30 June - 3 July 2026 3 April 2026 LNCS, 12 pages excluding references
SAFECOMP Computer Safety, Reliability and Security Valencia, Spain 8/15 March 2026 22-25 September 2026 1 May 2026 LNCS, 14 pages
DCFS Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems Kingston, Ontario, Canada 13 March 2026 9-11 August 2026 17 April 2026 LNCS, 12 pages excluding references
CiE Computability in Europe Trier, Germany 15 March 2026 27-31 July 2026 27 April 2026 LNCS, 15 pages; 2nd round of submissions
CIAA Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata Kingston, Ontario, Canada 20 March 2026 5-8 August 2026 24 April 2026 LNCS, 12 pages excluding references
CICM Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics Ljubljana, Slovenia 25 March / 1 April 2026 21-25 September 2026 10 June 2026 LNCS, 15 pages regular, project and survey, 5 pages system and dataset descriptions, all excluding references
LSFA Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications Lisbon, Portugal 30 March / 4 April 2026 18-19 July 2026 4 May 2026 EPTCS, 16 pages full, 6 pages short, both excluding references; part of FLoC
NMR Non-Monotonic Reasoning Lisbon, Portugal 3/10 April 2026 17-19 July 2026 18 May 2026 CEURART, 14 pages full, 3 pages excluding references extended abstracts; part of FLoC
FMICS Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems Liverpool, United Kingdom 10/17 April 2026 2-4 September 2026 1 June 2026 LNCS, 15 pages excluding references; part of CONFEST
CONCUR Concurrency Theory Liverpool, United Kingdom 14/20 April 2026 1-5 September 2026 15 June 2026 LIPIcs, 15 pages excluding references; part of CONFEST
DL Description Logics Lisbon, Portugal 14/21 April 2026 17-19 July 2026 20 May 2026 CEURART clone, 11 pages regular, 4 pages extended abstracts, both excluding references; part of FLoC
PAAR Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning Lisbon, Portugal 14/21 April 2026 25 July 2026 12 May 2026 CEURART, 15 pages regular, 8 pages extended abstract, both excluding references; workshop of FLoC
FedCSIS Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Riga, Latvia 15 April 2026 23-26 August 2026 16 June 2026 IEEEtrans, 12 pages full, 6 pages short, 8 pages communication
ESORICS European Symposium on Research in Computer Security Rome, Italy 21 April 2026 21-? September 2026 12 June 2026 LNCS, 16 pages excluding references (20 pages total)
ESA European Symposium on Algorithms L'Aquila, Italy 21/23 April 2026 31 August - 2 September 2026 26 June 2026 LIPIcs with own class file, 500 lines excluding front matter and references; part of ALGO
LFMTP
 
Logical Frameworks and Meta Languages: Theory and Practice
Lisbon, Portugal 21/28 April 2026 24 July 2026 28 May 2026 EPTCS, 15 pages regular, 10 pages system descriptions, 8 pages work in progress, all excluding references;
part of FLoC, workshop of FSCD
MFCS Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science Paris, France 24 April 2026 24-28 August 2026 19 June 2026 LIPIcs, 12 pages excluding references
FMCAD Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design Graz, Austria 26 April / 3 May 2026 14-18 September 2026 28 June 2026 own format, 8 pages long, 4 pages short, both excluding references
SCML Symbolic Computation and Machine Learning Hagenberg, Austria 27 April 2026 6-8 July 2026 11 May 2026 2 pages extended abstract
TERMGRAPH Computing with Terms and Graphs Lisbon, Portugal 27 April 2026 18-19 July 2026 25 May 2026 EPTCS, 15 pages, post-proceedings; workshop of FLoC
WST Workshop on Termination Lisbon, Portugal 28 April / 5 May 2026 25 July 2026 26 May 2026 LIPIcs, 5 pages; workshop of FLoC
CCA Computability & Complexity in Analysis Trier, Germany 1 May 2026 29-31 July 2026 5 June 2026 PDF, 2 pages; co-located with CiE
ADT Algorithmic Decision Theory Paris, France 4/11 May 2026 16-18 November 2026 13 July 2026 LNCS, double-blind, 15 pages
GD Graph Drawing St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada 6/13 May 2026 17-21 August 2026 22 July 2026 LIPIcs with wrapper, 500 lines long, 250 lines short, 80 lines poster
UNIF Workshop on Unification Lisbon, Portugal 7 May 2026 24 July 2026 29 May 2026 EasyChair, 5 pages; workshop of FLoC
MCU Machines, Computability, Universality Trier, Germany 10 May 2026 27-29 July 2026 15 June 2026 co-located with CiE
ML4SP Machine Learning for Solvers and Provers Lisbon, Portugal 15 May 2026 18 July 2026 25 May 2026 LIPIcs, 15 pages full, 2 pages extended abstracts, both excluding references; part of FLoC
EUMAS European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems Malmö, Sweden 18 May 2026 21-25 September 2026 30 June 2026 LNCS, 15 pages main track, 15 pages toolkits, 5 pages demonstrators, all excluding references
DISC Distributed Computing Rome, Italy 27 May / 1 June 2026 9-13 November 2026 5 August 2026 LIPIcs, double-blind, no page limit but only first 15 pages read
JAF Journées sur les Arithmétiques Faibles Warsaw, Poland 1 June 2026 16-18 September 2026 22 June 2026
ICTAC International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing Bariloche, Argentina 8/15 June 2026 11-13 November 2026 10 August 2026 LNCS, 16 pages regular, 8 pages short or tool, all excluding references up to 2 pages
ICTCS Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science Udine, Italy 14 June 2026 7-9 September 2026 21 July 2026 CEURART, 12 pages regular, 5 pages communications, both excluding references
MIWAI Multi-Disciplinary International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 26 June 2026 10-12 October 2026 7 August 2026 LNCS, double-blind, 12 pages
IPEC International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation L'Aquila, Italy 29 June 2026 31 August - 4 September 2026 2 August 2026 part of ALGO
ALGOCLOUD Algorithms for Cloud-Based Systems L’Aquila, Italy 3 July 2026 31 August - 4 September 2026 3 August 2026 LNCS, 12 pages excluding references regular, 8 pages short, 10 pages survey; part of ALGO
POPL
 
Principles of Programming Languages
Mexico City, Mexico 9 July 2026 10-16 January 2027 5 October 2026
9 November 2026
SODA Symposium on Discrete Algorithms Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 9 July 2026 24-27 January 2027
Conference City, Country Deadline Date Notification Submission format and comments

Running conferences

Conference City, Country Date Remark
STACS Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science Grenoble, France 9-13 March 2026
Conference City, Country Date Remark

Future conferences with deadline over

Conference City, Country Date Notification Final version Early registration Remarks and other indications
FoIKS Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems Hanover, Germany 23-26 March 2026 13 December 2025 6 January 2026 13 February 2026
EDBT Extending Database Technology Tampere, Finland 24-27 March 2026 3 February 2026 17 February 2026 10 February 2026
ICDT International Conference on Database Theory Tampere, Finland 24-27 March 2026 1 December 2025 17 February 2026 10 February 2026
EuroCG European Workshop on Computational Geometry Hagen, Germany 25-27 March 2026 24 February 2026 10 March 2026 3 March 2026
RAMiCS Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science Będlewo, Poland 7-10 April 2026 20 January 2026 10 February 2026
EvoStar
 
Evo*
Toulouse, France 8-10 April 2026 10 January 2026 24 January 2026 11 February 2026
4 March 2026
first registration date author, second early;
federated conference including EuroGP, EvoAPPS, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART
EuroGP
 
European Conference on Genetic Programming
Toulouse, France 8-10 April 2026 10 January 2026 24 January 2026 11 February 2026
4 March 2026
first registration date author, second early; part of EvoStar
EvoAPPS
 
Applications of Evolutionary Computation
Toulouse, France 8-10 April 2026 10 January 2026 24 January 2026 11 February 2026
4 March 2026
first registration date author, second early; part of EvoStar
EvoCOP
 
Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
Toulouse, France 8-10 April 2026 10 January 2026 24 January 2026 11 February 2026
4 March 2026
first registration date author, second early; part of EvoStar
EvoMUSART
 
Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design
Toulouse, France 8-10 April 2026 10 January 2026 24 January 2026 11 February 2026
4 March 2026
first registration date author, second early; part of EvoStar
NFM NASA Formal Methods Los Angeles, California, USA 5-7 May 2026 10 March 2026 30 March 2026
EUROCRYPT Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques Rome, Italy 10-14 May 2026 29 January 2026
WRLA Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications Torino, Italy 11-12 April 2026 27 February 2026 13 March 2026 10 March 2026 part of ETAPS
ETAPS European Joint Conferences on Theory & Practice of Software Torino, Italy 11-16 April 2026 22 December 2025 22 January 2026 10 March 2026 federated conference including ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS, and TACAS
ESOP European Symposium on Programming Torino, Italy 11-16 April 2026 22 December 2025 22 January 2026 10 March 2026 part of ETAPS
FASE Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering Torino, Italy 11-16 April 2026 22 December 2025 22 January 2026 10 March 2026 part of ETAPS
FoSSaCS Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures Torino, Italy 11-16 April 2026 22 December 2025 22 January 2026 10 March 2026 part of ETAPS
TACAS Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems Torino, Italy 11-16 April 2026 22 December 2025 22 January 2026 10 March 2026 part of ETAPS
LATIN Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium Florianópolis, Brazil 13-17 April 2026 9 January 2026 9 February 2026 7 March 2026
SPIN International Symposium on Model Checking Software Torino, Italy 15-16 April 2026 5 March 2026 artifact submission 5 February 2026; co-located with ETAPS
FLAIRS FLorida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference Marco Island, Florida, USA 17-20 May 2026 9 March 2026 6 April 2026 3 April 2026
FM Formal Methods Tokyo, Japan 18-22 May 2026 30 January 2026 2 March 2026
FUN Fun With Algorithms Porquerolles, France 18-22 May 2026 17 February 2026 3 March 2026 3 March 2026
IDA Intelligent Data Analysis Leiden, Netherlands 22-24 April 2026 23 January 2026 6 February 2026 28 February 2026
OLA Optimization and Learning Chania, Crete, Greece 28-30 April 2026 23 January 2026 6 March 2026 14 March 2026
ISCO International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization Kuşadası, Turkey 6-8 May 2026 15 February 2026 1 March 2026
EMAS
 
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
Paphos, Cyprus 25-26 May 2026 27 March 2026 27 April 2026 31 March 2026 co-located with AAMAS
AAMAS Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Paphos, Cyprus 25-29 May 2026 22 December 2025 11 February 2026 31 March 2026
IPDPS
 
International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 25-29 May 2026 18 December 2025
2 February 2026
20 February 2026 6 April 2026
FLOPS Functional and Logic Programming Tsukuba, Japan 26-28 May 2026 2 February 2026 2 March 2026 25 April 2026
CPAIOR Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research Rabat, Morocco 26-29 May 2026 9 February 2026 early March
RECOMB Research in Computational Molecular Biology Thessaloniki, Greece 26-29 May 2026 16 January 2026 25 February 2026 15 April 2026
PODS
 
Principles of Database Systems
Bengaluru, India 31 May - 5 June 2026 8 February 2026
1 March 2026
31 March 2026 co-located with SIGMOD
SIGMOD
 
International Conference on Management of Data
Bengaluru, India 31 May - 5 June 2026 4 January 2026
23 February 2026
31 March 2026 co-located with PODS
WG Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science Kortrijk, Belgium 2-4 June 2026 3 April 2026 4 May 2026 26 April 2026
SoCG Symposium on Computational Geometry New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA 2-5 June 2026 5 February 2026 24 March 2026
IWOCA International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms Clermont-Ferrand, France 8-12 June 2026 25 March 2026 6 April 2026 11 May 2026
CAiSE Advanced Information Systems Engineering Verona, Italy 8-12 June 2026 12 February 2026 3 May 2026
DisCoTec Distributed Computing Techniques Urbino, Italy 8-12 June 2026 24 March 2026 3 April 2026 federated conference including COORDINATION, DAIS, and FORTE
COORDINATION Coordination Models and Languages Urbino, Italy 8-12 June 2026 24 March 2026 3 April 2026 part of DisCoTec
DAIS
 
Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
Urbino, Italy 8-12 June 2026 27 March 2026 3 April 2026 part of DisCoTec
FORTE Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems Urbino, Italy 8-12 June 2026 27 March 2026 3 April 2026 part of DisCoTec
SIROCCO Structural Information and Communication Complexity Durham, United Kingdom 9-11 June 2026 20 January 2026
CPM
 
Combinatorial Pattern Matching
Copenhagen, Denmark 15-17 June 2026 23 December 2025
1 April 2026
two submission rounds
IPCO Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization Padova, Italy 17-19 June 2026 15 February 2026 25 March 2026 30 April 2026
SWAT Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory Copenhagen, Denmark 17-19 June 2026 10 April 2026 17 April 2026 co-located with CPM and SEA
SEA Symposium on Experimental Algorithms Copenhagen, Denmark 22–24 June 2026 31 March 2026 co-located with CPM and SWAT
AofA Probabilistic, Combinatorial, and Asymptotic Methods in the Analysis of Algorithms Munich, Germany 22-26 June 2026 20 April 2026 4 May 2026 17 May 2026
Petri Nets Petri Nets Hamburg, Germany 22-26 June 2026 8 March 2026 22 March 2026
STOC Symposium on Theory of Computing Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 22-26 June 2026 1 February 2026 31 March 2026
ICAPS International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling Dublin, Ireland 27 June - 2 July 2026 20 February 2026
COLT Conference on Learning Theory San Diego, California, USA 29 June - 3 July 2026 4 May 2026
ECMFA
 
 
European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
Rennes, France 29 June - 3 July 2026 6 February 2026
10 April 2026
15 May 2026
1 June 2026 part of STAF
ICGT International Conference on Graph Transformation Rennes, France 29 June - 3 July 2026 6 April 2026 part of STAF
AiML Advances in Modal Logic Amsterdam, Netherlands 29 June - 3 July 2026 24 April 2026 15 May 2026
MATCH-UP Matching Under Preferences Paris, France 1-3 July 2026 15 April 2026 1 June 2026
SAND Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks Le Havre, France 1-3 July 2026 21 April 2026 2 May 2026
TASE Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering Shanghai, China 4-6 July 2026 15 April 2026 1 May 2026
EC Economics and Computation Rome, Italy 6-10 July 2026 18 May 2026
PODC
 
Principles of Distributed Computing
Egham, England, UK 6-10 July 2026 29 April 2026 co-located with ICALP and SPAA
SPAA Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures Egham, England, UK 6-10 July 2026 15 May 2026 5 June 2026 co-located with ICALP and PODC
ANTS Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium Groningen, Netherlands 6-10 July 2026 20 April 2026 5 June 2026 post-proceedings
ICML International Conference on Machine Learning Seoul, South Korea 6-11 July 2026 30 April 2026
ICALP International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming Egham, England, UK 7-10 July 2026 20 April 2026 11 May 2026 co-located with PODC and SPAA
ISSAC International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation Oldenburg, Germany 13-16 July 2026 1 May 2026 8 May 2026
GECCO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference San José, Costa Rica 13-17 July 2026 20 March 2026 10 April 2026
LICS Logic in Computer Science Lisbon, Portugal 20-23 July 2026 16 April 2026 15 May 2026 part of FLoC
FSCD Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction Lisbon, Portugal 20-23 July 2026 16 April 2026 30 April 2026 15 May 2026 part of FLoC
ICLP
 
International Conference on Logic Programming
Lisbon, Portugal 20-23 July 2026 12/27 March 2026
24 April 2026
15 May 2026 part of FLoC
KR Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Lisbon, Portugal 20-23 July 2026 13 April 2026 3 May 2026 15 May 2026 part of FLoC
SAT Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing Lisbon, Portugal 20-23 July 2026 30 April 2026 14 May 2026 15 May 2026 part of FLoC
ICDCS International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Seoul, South Korea 20-24 July 2026
COCOON Computing and Combinatorics Conference Singapore 23-25 July 2026 6 May 2026 29 May 2026
CAV
 
Computer-Aided Verification
Lisbon, Portugal 26-29 July 2026 4 March 2026
17 April 2026
15 May 2026 part of FLoC
CSF Computer Security Foundations Lisbon, Portugal 26-29 July 2026 1 April 2026 15 May 2026 part of FLoC
IJCAR International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Lisbon, Portugal 26-29 July 2026 14 April 2026 15 June 2026 15 May 2026 part of FLoC
ITP Interactive Theorem Proving Lisbon, Portugal 26-29 July 2026 26 April 2026 24 May 2026 15 May 2026 part of FLoC
TACL Topology, Algebra, and Categories in Logic Kraków, Poland 27-31 July 2026 27 April 2026 31 May 2026 summer school 21-25 July 2026
CCC Computational Complexity Conference Lisbon, Portugal 3-6 August 2026 1 May 2026 end of May
WoLLIC Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation Lima, Peru 3-6 August 2026 5 May 2026 20 May 2026
KDD
 
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Jeju Island, South Korea 9-13 August 2026 23 November 2025
16 May 2026
17 June 2026 two submission cycles
IJCAI
 
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Bremen, Germany 15-21 August 2026 4 March 2026
29 April 2026
15 May 2026 joint with ECAI
CRYPTO CRYPTO Santa Barbara, California, USA 17-20 August 2026 4 May 2026 8 June 2026
ICFP International Conference on Functional Programming Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 24-29 August 2026 10 June 2026 1 July 2026
CONFEST CONCUR & QEST & FORMATS Liverpool, United Kingdom 1-5 September 2026 federated conference including CONCUR, FMICS, QEST, and FORMATS
ESORICS
 
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
Rome, Italy 21-? September 2026 10 March 2026
12 June 2026
two rounds of submission
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Conference planning

This section serves

  1. for planning conferences in the future,
  2. to indicate the planned (tentative) dates for a conference, and
  3. to inform organizers of other conferences about these dates to avoid scheduling clashes.

The calendar for the years 2026 and 2027 can help you to plan the conferences.

If you wish the tentative schedule of your conference to be listed here, send me an e-mail (change  _at_  to @ and  _dot_  twice to .) with the following template:

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Conference Year City, Country Starting date Ending date Remark
FLoC Federated Logic Conference 2026 Lisbon, Portugal 18 July 2026 29 July 2026 summer school 13-17 July 2026; includes CAV, CP, CSF, FSCD, ICLP, IJCAR, ITP, KR, LICS, SAT
ALGO Federated Conference on Algorithms 2026 L'Aquila, Italy 31 August 2026 4 September 2026 federated conference including ALGOCLOUD, ALGOWIN, ATMOS, ESA, IPEC, WABI, and WAOA
SPLASH Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity 2026 Oakland, California, USA 3 October 2026 9 October 2026
SDM Data Mining 2026 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 19 November 2026 20 November 2026
ALENEX Algorithm Engineering and Experiments 2027 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 24 January 2027 25 January 2027 co-located with SODA
SOSA Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms 2027 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 25 January 2027 26 January 2027 co-located with SODA
Conference Year City, Country Starting date Ending date Remark

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