Conferences in Theoretical Computer Science

All information on this page is given without any warranty.
All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) (UTC-12) if not stated otherwise.
The calendar for the years 2019 and 2020 can help you to consider the deadlines and dates.
When there are two dealine dates, the first is for the abstract, the second for the full paper.

Deadline ahead

Conference City, Country Deadline Date Notification of acceptance Submission format and comments
PSB The Big Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, USA 5 August 2019
23:59 PDT (UTC-7)
3-7 January 2020 13 September 2019 own format, 12 pages
TPNC Kingston, Canada 7 August 2019 9-11 December 2019 31 August 2019 LNCS, 12 pages
COCOA Xiamen, China 7 August 2019 13-15 December 2019 17 September 2019 LNCS, 12 pages
MIWAI Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 9 August 2019 17-19 November 2019 19 August 2019 LNCS, 12 pages regular, 8 pages short
ALENEX Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 9/16 August 2019 5-6 January 2020 October 2019 double column, 15 pages
SOSA Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 9/16 August 2019 6-7 January 2020 October 2019 double column, 15 pages
SOFSEM Limasol, Cyprus 26 August / 2 September 2019 20-24 January 2020 14 October 2019 LNCS, 12 pages
AAAI New York City, New York, USA 30 August / 5 September 2019
both 23:59 UTC-10
7-12 February 2020 10 November 2019 AAAI two-column, double-blind, 8 pages, where last page can contain references only
WALCOM Singapore 1 September 2019 31 March - 2 April 2020 25 October 2019 LNCS, 12 pages
MLN Paris, France 16 September 2019 3-5 December 2019 14 October 2019 LNCS, ??? pages
ALT San Diego, California, USA 20 September 2019 8-11 February 2020 24 November 2019 JMLR, 12 pages
OLA Cádiz, Spain 20 September 2019 17-19 February 2020 16 November 2019 own format, 10 pages regular, 3 pages work-in-progress and position
EUROCRYPT Zagreb, Croatia 26 September 2019
23:59 CET (UTC+1)
10-14 May 2020 21 January 2020 LNCS, 30 pages
CALDAM Hyderabad, India 28 September 2019 13-15 February 2020 8 November 2019 LNCS, 12 pages
STACS Montpellier, France 30 September 2019 10-13 March 2020 20 December 2019 LIPIcs, 12 pages excluding title page and references
RAMICS Palaiseau, France 06/13 October 2019 08-11 April 2020 15 December 2019 LNCS, 16 pages
IPDPS New Orleans, Lousiana, USA 7/14 October 2019
revision 6 January 2020
18-22 May 2020 9 December 2019
20 January 2020
IEEE, 10 pages
ETAPS Dublin, Ireland 24 October 2019 25 April - 1 May 2020 23 December 2019 federated conference including ESOP, FASE, FOSSaCS, and TACAS
ESOP Dublin, Ireland 24 October 2019 25 April - 1 May 2020 23 December 2019 LNCS, 25 pages excluding references
FASE Dublin, Ireland 24 October 2019 25 April - 1 May 2020 23 December 2019 LNCS, double-blind, 18 pages excluding references
FOSSaCS Dublin, Ireland 24 October 2019 25 April - 1 May 2020 23 December 2019 LNCS, 18 pages excluding references
TACAS Dublin, Ireland 24 October 2019 25 April - 1 May 2020 23 December 2019 LNCS,
16 pages excluding references for research, case study, and regular tool papers;
6 pages for tool demonstration
ECAI Santiago de Compostela, Spain 15/19 November 2019 8-12 June 2020 15 January 2020 own format, 8 (7+1) pages scientific, 2 pages highlights
LICS Beijing, China 6/10 January 2020 8-12 July 2020 10 April 2020 SIGPLAN, two-column, double-blind, 12 pages excluding references
colocated with ICALP
Conference City, Country Deadline Date Notification of acceptance Submission format and comments

Running conferences

Conference City, Country Date
WADS Edmonton, Canada 5-7 August 2019
DLT Warsaw, Poland 5-9 August 2019
Conference City, Country Date

Future conferences with deadline over

Conference City, Country Date Notification of acceptance Final version Early registration
IJCAI Macao, SAR China 10-16 August 2019 9 May 2019 20 June 2019
FCT Copenhangen, Denmark 11-14 August 2019 19 May 2019 2 June 2019 1 July 2019
CRYPTO Santa Barbara, California, USA 18-22 August 2019 29 April 2019 2 June 2019 19 July 2019
PaCT Almaty, Kazakhstan 19-23 August 2019 15/22 April 2019 26 May 2019 open, but no deadline announced
EUROCOMB Bratislava, Slovakia 26-30 August 2019 30 April 2019 30 June 2019
MFCS Aachen, Germany 26-30 August 2019 12 June 2019 26 June 2019 7 July 2019
VLDB Los Angeles, California, USA 26-30 August 2019 15 July 2019
CONCUR Amsterdam, The Netherlands 26-31 August 2019 14 June 2019 3 July 2019 7 July 2019
FORMATS Amsterdam, The Netherlands 27-29 August 2019 21 June 2019 5 July 2019 7 July 2019
CADE Natal, Brazil 27-30 August 2019 15 April 2019 27 May 2019 15 July 2019, 23:59 UTC-3
GandALF Bordeaux, France 2-4 September 2019 3 July 2019 19 July 2019 19 August 2019
TABLEAUX London, UK 3-5 Setember 2019 14 June 2019 1 July 2019 21 August 2019, 23:59 BST (UTC+1)
ILP Plovdiv, Bulgaria 3-5 September 2019 3 July 2019 26 July 2019
FroCoS London, UK 4-6 September 2019 13 June 2019 1 July 2019 21 August 2019, 23:59 BST (UTC+1)
WABI Niagara Falls, New York, USA 8-10 September 2019 17 June 2019 24 June 2019 12 July 2019
ESA Munich, Germany 9-11 September 2019 23 June 2019 5 July 2019 7 August 2019
ALGO Munich, Germany 9-13 September 2019 federated conference including
ALGOCLOUD, ALGOSENSORS, ATMOS, ESA, IPEC, and WAOA
7 August 2019
IPEC Munich, Germany 11-13 September 2019 15 July 2019 7 August 2019
RP Brussels, Belgium 11-13 September 2019 12 July 2019 16 July 2019 15 August 2019
WAOA Munich, Germany 12-13 September 2019 20 July 2019 30 September 2019 7 August 2019
ATMOS Munich, Germany 12-13 September 2019 25 July 2019 7 August 2019
ALGOSENSORS Munich, Germany 12-14 September 2019 22 July 2019 7 August 2019
WORDS Loughborough, England, UK 9-13 September 2019 20 May 2019 3 June 2019 22 July 2019
ISC New York City, New York, USA 16-18 September 2019 7 June 2019 5 July 2019 25 July 2019
RuleML+RR Bolzano, Italy 16-19 September 2019 21 June 2019 3 July 2019 31 July 2019
GD Prague, Czech Republic 17-20 September 2019 22 July 2019 26 August 2019 30 August 2019
CMSB Trieste, Italy 18-20 September 2019 5 June 2019 21 June 2019 18 July 2019
APPROX Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 20-22 September 2019 20 June 2019 1 July 2019 7 September 2019
RANDOM Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 20-22 September 2019 20 June 2019 1 July 2019 7 September 2019
ICLP Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 20-25 September 2019 19 June 2019 31 July 2019 5 August 2019
KI Kassel, Germany 23-26 September 2019 28 June 2019 12 July 2019 open, but no deadline announced
SAGT Athens, Greece 30 September - 3 October 2019 1 July 2019 20 July 2019 1 September 2019
CP Stamford, Connecticut, USA 30 September - 4 October 2019 30 June 2019 19 July 2019 30 August 2019
PPDP Porto, Portugal 7-9 October 2019 14 June 2019 15 July 2019 10 September 2019
FM Porto, Portugal 7-11 October 2019 11 June 2019 9 July 2019 10 September 2019
LOPSTR Porto, Portugal 8-10 October 2019 24 July 2019 7 August 2019 10 September 2019
DISC Budapest, Hungary 14-18 October 2019 19/26 July 2019 7 August 2019 31 August 2019
TIME Málaga, Spain 16-19 October 2019 21 July 2019 15 August 2019 16 September 2019
FMCAD San Jose, California, USA 22-25 October 2019 3 July 2019 16 August 2019
ICAPS London, UK 23-24 October 2019 14 May 2019 23 June 2019 23 June 2019
FACS Amsterdam, The Netherlands 23-25 October 2019 30 August 2019 27 September 2019
PRIMA Torino, Italy 28-31 October 2019 25 August 2019 5 September 2019
ICTAC Hammamet, Tunisia 30 October - 4 November 2019 21 July 2019 11 August 2019
FOCS Baltimore, Maryland, USA 9-12 November 2019 1 July 2019 mid-August 2019
AIIA Rende, Italy 19-22 November 2019 13 August 2019 17 September 2019 30 September 2019
ISAAC Shanghai, China 8-11 December 2019 31 August 2019 28 September 2019 26 October 2019
WINE New York City, New York, USA 10-12 December 2019 9 September 2019
FSTTCS Bombay, India 11-13 December 2019 13 September 2019 1 October 2019
SODA Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 5-8 January 2020 October 2019 2 December 2019 23:59 EST
CSL Barcelona, Spain 13-16 January 2020 30 September 2019
POPL New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 19-25 January 2020 14 October 2019 7 November 2019
Conference City, Country Date Notification of acceptance Final version Early registration

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 2019 and 2020 can help you to plan the conferences.

If you want 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:

E-mail with a template for a planned conference

Conference Year City, Country Starting date Ending date
STOC 2020 Chicago, Illinois, USA 22 June 2020 26 June 2020
SoCG 2020 Zürich, Switzerland 22 June 2020 26 June 2020
IJCAR 2020 Paris, France 29 June 2020 2 (?) July 2020
FSCD 2020 Paris, France 29 June 2020 5 July 2020
ICALP 2020 Beijing, China 8 July 2020 12 July 2020
ISSAC 2020 Kalamata (Καλαμάτα), Greece 20 July 2020 23 July 2020
Conference Year City, Country Starting date Ending date

Instructions for listing your conference here

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

E-mail with a template for a conference with its deadline ahead

E-mail with a template for a future conference with deadline over

This webpage is updated regularly, at least once a day. Only serious conferences in connection with theoretical computer science will be listed.

Following conferences are included in this list

AAAI AAIM AAMAS AISC ALENEX ALGOCLOUD ALT ANALCO APPROX+RANDOM AW AlCoB BICOB
BLAST CADE CALDAM CAV CCC CIAC COCOA COCOON COLT COMSOC CONCUR CP
CPAIOR CPM CRYPTO CSC CSL CSR CTW CiE CooPMAS DISC DL DLT
DM EC ESA ESOP ESORICS ETAPS EUROCRYPT Eurocomb FACS FASE FCRC FCT
FLoC FMCAD FOCS FOSSAC FSCD FSTTCS FUN GD GECCO ICALP ICAPS ICDCS
ICFP ICGT ICLP ICTCS IJCAI IJCAR ILP IMBSA IPCO IPDPS IPEC ISAAC
ISSAC IWOCA JELIA KR LAGOS LATA LATIN LICS LOPSTR LPAR LPNMR LSFA
MFCS MIWAI MLN OLA PADL PODC PODS POPL POST PPDP PRIMA PaCT
RECOMB RP RuleML+RR SAFECOMP SAGT SAS SAT SDM SEA SIROCCO SODA SOFSEM
SOSA SPAA STACS STOC SWAT SYNASC SoCG SoCS TACAS TAMC TIME TPNC
UNIF VSTTE WABI WADS WALCOM WAOA WFLP WG WINE WoLLIC

If you are an organizer of one of these conferences and you do not see that conference listed here. please send me a messsage using the aforementioned instructions.


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