CFP summary
FOCS 2026 is the 67th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, one of the flagship conferences in theoretical computer science. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, FOCS seeks new and original research on the theory of computation and closely related areas. The 2026 edition in New York continues the conference’s role as a premier venue for foundational advances in algorithms, complexity, learning theory, cryptography, and more.
Topics
Algorithms and data structures; computational complexity; coding theory; game theory; graph theory and combinatorics; learning theory; cryptography; optimization; randomness; quantum computing; computational geometry; computational logic; theoretical aspects of networks, privacy, information retrieval, biology, and databases.