Conferences in Theoretical Computer Science

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Conference City, Country Deadline Date Notification Submission format and comments
GECCO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference San José, Costa Rica 19/26 January 2026 13-17 July 2026 20 March 2026 ACMart, double-blind, 8 pages excluding references full papers, 4 pages poster papers
FLAIRS FLorida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference Marco Island, Florida, USA 19/26 January 2026 17-20 May 2026 9 March 2026 6 pages full, 4 pages short, 2 pages poster, all excluding references
Petri Nets Petri Nets Hamburg, Germany 21/30 January 2026 22-26 June 2026 8 March 2026 LNCS, 20 pages regular, 10 pages toll, both excluding references
SPIN
 
International Symposium on Model Checking Software
Torino, Italy 22/29 January 2026 15-116 April 2026 5 March 2026 LNCS, 16 pages full research, 16 pages + artefact full tool, 6 pages short, all excluding references;
co-located with ETAPS
ICML International Conference on Machine Learning Seoul, South Korea 23/28 January 2026 6-11 July 2026 30 April 2026 own format, 8 pages excluding references
FSCD Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction Lisbon, Portugal 23/30 January 2026 20-23 July 2026 16 April 2026 LIPIcs, 15 pages regular, 15 pages system descriptions, both excluding references; part of FLoC
ICLP International Conference on Logic Programming Lisbon, Portugal 24/31 January 2026 20-23 July 2026 17 April 2026 TPLP regular, EPTCS short; part of FLoC
IWOCA International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms Clermont-Ferrand, France 26 January / 2 February 2026 8-12 June 2026 25 March 2026 LNCS, double-blind, 12 pages
CAV
 
Computer-Aided Verification
Lisbon, Portugal 28 January 2026 26-29 July 2026 4 March 2026
17 April 2026
LNCS, 18 pages + double-blind regular, 10 pages short tool, 10 pages + double-blind short application,
10 pages industrial experience & case study; part of FLoC
CSF Computer Security Foundations Lisbon, Portugal 29 January 2026 26-29 July 2026 1 April 2026 IEEE Transactions, double-blind, 12 pages excluding references; part of FLoC
CiE Computability in Europe Trier, Germany 29 January / 3 February 2026 27-31 July 2026 27 April 2026 LNCS, 15 pages
ISSAC International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation Oldenburg, Germany 30 January / 6 February 2026 13-16 July 2026 1 May 2026 ACM, two-column, 8 pages regular
COORDINATION Coordination Models and Languages Urbino, Italy 30 January / 6 February 2026 8-12 June 2026 24 March 2026 LNCS, 18 pages regular, 25 pages survey, 15 pages tool, all excluding references; part of DisCoTec
DAIS
 
Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
Urbino, Italy 30 January / 6 February 2026 8-12 June 2026 27 March 2026 LNCS, 15 pages research, 15 pages experience reports, 6 pages work in progress, all +2 pages references;
part of DisCoTec
FORTE Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems Urbino, Italy 30 January / 6 February 2026 8-12 June 2026 27 March 2026 LNCS, 15 pages regular, 15 pages tool, 6 pages short, all excluding references; part of DisCoTec
WRLA Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications Torino, Italy 31 January 2026 11-12 April 2026 27 February 2026 LNCS, 16 pages regular, 10 pages tool, 8 pages work in progress; part of ETAPS
WG Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science Kortrijk, Belgium 1/4 February 2026 2-4 June 2026 3 April 2026 LIPIcs SoCG clone, double-blind, 500 lines
KDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Jeju Island, South Korea 1/8 February 2026 9-13 August 2026 16 May 2026 ACMart, double-blind (research track), single-blind (application track), 8 pages; second cycle
SEA Symposium on Experimental Algorithms Copenhagen, Denmark 2 February 2026 22–24 June 2026 31 March 2026 LIPIcs, double-blind, 12 pages excluding references + 5 pages appendix; co-located with CPM and SWAT
EC Economics and Computation Rome, Italy 2/9 February 2026 6-10 July 2026 18 May 2026
ICALP International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming Egham, England, UK 3/6 February 2026 7-10 July 2026 20 April 2026 LIPIcs, double-blind, no page limit but only first 10 pages read, co-located with PODC and SPAA
COLT Conference on Learning Theory San Diego, California, USA 4 February 2026 29 June - 3 July 2026 4 May 2026 own format, double-blind, 12 pages excluding references
CCC Computational Complexity Conference Lisbon, Portugal 6 February 2026 3-6 August 2026 1 May 2026 LIPIcs, double-blind, no page limit but only first 10 pages read
IJCAR International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Lisbon, Portugal 6/13 February 2026 26-29 July 2026 14 April 2026 LNCS, 15 pages regular, 7 pages short, both excluding references; all dates are tentative, part of FLoC
KR Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Lisbon, Portugal 8/13 February 2026 20-23 July 2026 13 April 2026 double-blind, 9 pages regular, 4 pages short; part of FLoC
PODC
 
Principles of Distributed Computing
Egham, England, UK 11/16 February 2026 6-10 July 2026 29 April 2026 ACMart, double-blind, no page limit but only first 10 pages read regular, 5 page brief announcements;
co-located with ICALP and SPAA
EMAS
 
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
Paphos, Cyprus 11/18 February 2026 25-26 May 2026 19 March 2026 LNCS, 16 pages regular, 8 pages short, 6 pages student, 4 pages tools + demos + testbeds,
all excluding references, post-proceedings; co-located with AAMAS
CRYPTO CRYPTO Santa Barbara, California, USA 12 February 2026 17-20 August 2026
ITP Interactive Theorem Proving Lisbon, Portugal 12/19 February 2026 26-29 July 2026 26 April 2026 LIPIcs, double-blind, 16 pages regular, 6 pages short, both excluding references; part of FLoC
CPM Combinatorial Pattern Matching Copenhagen, Denmark 13 February 2026 15-17 June 2026 1 April 2026 LIPIcs, 12 pages excluding references; co-located with SEA and SWAT
ECMFA
 
European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
Rennes, France 13/22 February 2026 29 June - 3 July 2026 10 April 2026
15 May 2026
JOT, 14 pages + 2 pages for secondary studies; part of STAF
MATCH-UP Matching Under Preferences Paris, France 15 February 2026 1-3 July 2026 15 April 2026 A4 paper, 18 pages excluding references
TASE Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering Shanghai, China 15/21 February 2026 4-6 July 2026 1 April 2026 LNCS, 16 pages long, 6 pages short, both excluding references
SWAT Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory Copenhagen, Denmark 16/20 February 2026 17-19 June 2026 10 April 2026 LIPIcs, double-blind (?), 15 pages excluding references; co-located with CPM and SEA
WoLLIC Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation Lima, Peru 16/22 February 2026 3-6 August 2026 5 May 2026 LNCS, 12 pages + 5 pages references and appendix
ICGT International Conference on Graph Transformation Rennes, France 16/23 February 2026 29 June - 3 July 2026 6 April 2026 part of STAF
SAFECOMP Computer Safety, Reliability and Security Valencia, Spain 16/27 February 2026 22-25 September 2026 24 April 2026 LNCS, 14 pages
ICFP International Conference on Functional Programming Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 19 February 2026 24-29 August 2026 10 June 2026 ACM, double-blind, 25 pages full, 12 pages experience report, both excluding references
SPAA
 
Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures
Egham, England, UK 20/27 February 2026 6-10 July 2026 15 May 2026 SIGconf, double-column, 10 pages regular, 3 page brief announcements, both excluding references;
co-located with ICALP and PODC
AiML Advances in Modal Logic Amsterdam, Netherlands 20/27 February 2026 29 June - 3 July 2026 24 April 2026 EPTCS, 12 pages excluding references full, 3 pages short
TACL Topology, Algebra, and Categories in Logic Kraków, Poland 23 February 2026 27-31 July 2026 20 April 2026 2 pages
SAND Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks Le Havre, France 24 February 2026 1-3 July 2026 mid-April 2026 LIPIcs, 15 pages excluding references regular, 5 pages + 1 page references brief announcements
SAT Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing Lisbon, Portugal 27 February / 6 March 2026 20-23 July 2026 30 April 2026 LIPIcs, 15 pages long, 8 pages short, 8 pages tool, all excluding references; part of FLoC
Euro-Par European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Pisa, Italy 27 February / 6 March 2026 24-28 August 2026 30 April 2026 LNCS, 14 pages
SCN Security and Cryptography for Networks Amalfi (SA), Italy 28 February 2026 14-16 September 2026 28 April 2028 LNCS, 20 pages excluding references
CP Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming Lisbon, Portugal 28 February / 7 March 2026 20-23 July 2026 30 April 2026 part of FLoC
AofA Probabilistic, Combinatorial, and Asymptotic Methods in the Analysis of Algorithms Munich, Germany 1 March 2026 22-26 June 2026 20 April 2026 LIPIcs, 15 pages excluding references + 5 pages appendix
CONCEPTS Conceptual Knowledge Structures Montpellier, France 1/8 March 2026 31 August - 4 September 2026 20 April 2026 LNCS, regular track only, 16 pages long, 8 pages short
PATAT Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling Nottingham, United Kingdom 17 March 2026 25-28 August 2026 15 May 2026
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
DCFS Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems Kingston, Ontario, Canada 13 March 2026 9-11 August 2026 17 April 2026 LNCS, 12 pages excluding references
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
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 format not specified, 11 pages regular, 4 pages extended abstracts, both excluding references; part 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, 8 pages short
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)
MFCS Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science Paris, France 24 April 2026 24-28 August 2026 19 June 2026 LIPIcs
FMCAD Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design Graz, Austria 26 April / 3 May 2026 14-18 September 2026 28 June 2026
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
CCA Computability & Complexity in Analysis Trier, Germany 1 May 2026 29-31 July 2026 5 June 2026 PDF, 2 pages; co-located with CiE
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
EUMAS European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems Malmö, Sweden 18 May 2026 21-25 September 2026 30 June 2026 LNCS
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
Conference City, Country Deadline Date Notification Submission format and comments

Running conferences

Conference City, Country Date Remark
AAAI Artificial Intelligence Singapore 20-27 January 2026
Conference City, Country Date Remark

Future conferences with deadline over

Conference City, Country Date Notification Final version Early registration Remarks and other indications
ITCS
Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science
Milano, Italy 27-30 January 2026 10 November 2025 15 December 2025
SOFSEM Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science Kraków, Poland 9-13 February 2026 10 November 2025 1 December 2025 19 January 2026
AISC Australasian Information Security Conference Melbourne, Australia 11-12 February 2026 20 January 2026 25 January 2026 part of ACSW
CALDAM Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics Dharwad, India 12-14 February 2026 14 November 2025 28 November 2025 31 December 2025
FICS Fixed Points in Computer Science Paris, France 23-24 February 2026 27 January 2026 satellite of CSL
ALT Algorithmic Learning Theory Toronto, Canada 23-26 February 2026 18 December 2025 at Fields Institute
CSL Computer Science Logic Paris, France 23-28 February 2026 14 October 2025 30 November 2025
WALCOM International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation Perugia, Italy 4-6 March 2026 7 November 2025 19 November 2025 15 January 2026
STACS Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science Grenoble, France 9-13 March 2026 12 December 2025 15 February 2026
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
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 early February 2026
FM Formal Methods Tokyo, Japan 18-22 May 2026 30 January 2026 2 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
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
FLOPS Functional and Logic Programming Akita, Japan 26-28 May 2026 2 February 2026 2 March 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
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
SoCG Symposium on Computational Geometry New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA 2-5 June 2026 5 February 2026 24 March 2026
CAiSE Advanced Information Systems Engineering Verona, Italy 8-12 June 2026 12 February 2026
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
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
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
ANTS Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium Groningen, Netherlands 6-10 July 2026 20 April 2026 5 June 2026 post-proceedings
LICS Logic in Computer Science Lisbon, Portugal 20-23 July 2026 16 April 2026 part of FLoC
ICDCS International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Seoul, South Korea 20-24 July 2026
KDD
 
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Jeju Island, South Korea 9-13 August 2026 23 November 2025
16 May 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
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
DisCoTec Distributed Computing Techniques 2026 Urbino, Italy 8 June 2026 12 June 2026 federated conference including COORDINATION, DAIS, and FORTE
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
GD Graph Drawing 2026 Ontario, Canada 19 Agust 2026 21 August 2026
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
CICM Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics 2026 Ljubljana, Slovenia 21 September 2026 25 September 2026
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
DISC Distributed Computing 2026 Rome, Italy
Conference Year City, Country Starting date Ending date Remark

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