CFP summary
STOC 2026 is the 58th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, one of the flagship conferences in theoretical computer science. Sponsored by ACM SIGACT, the conference is a premier venue for foundational advances in algorithms, complexity, randomness, combinatorics, optimization, learning theory, cryptography, and related areas. The 2026 edition is held in Salt Lake City, Utah as part of a broader TheoryFest program with papers, posters, invited talks, tutorials, and workshops.
Topics
Typical topics listed on the conference site include algorithms and data structures, computational complexity, randomness in computing, algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics, analysis of Boolean functions, approximation algorithms, cryptography, computational learning theory, continuous and discrete optimization, economics and computation, parallel and distributed algorithms, quantum computing, algorithmic coding theory, computational geometry and topology, computational logic, algebraic computation, and theoretical aspects of machine learning, fairness, privacy, networks, data management, databases, and computational biology.