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The 67th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2026), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, will be held in New York, NY, USA, November 8-11. Information about previous conferences can be found at the FOCS Conference Archive.

The 67th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2026), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, will be held in New York, USA, November 8–11, 2026. Information about previous conferences can be found at the FOCS Conference Archive.

Papers presenting new and original research on theory of computation are sought. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include:
Algebraic computation
Algorithmic coding theory
Algorithmic game theory
Algorithmic graph theory
Algorithms and data structures
Analysis of Boolean functions
Approximation algorithms
Average-case algorithms and complexity
Circuit complexity
Combinatorial optimization
Combinatorics and graph theory
Communication complexity
Computational applications of logic
Computational complexity
Computational geometry
Computational learning theory
Continuous optimization
Cryptography
Dynamic algorithms
Foundations of fairness and privacy
Foundations of machine learning
Online algorithms
Parallel and distributed algorithms
Parameterized algorithms
Pseudorandomness and derandomization
Quantum computing
Randomization and probabilistic method
Spectral algorithms
Streaming algorithms
Sublinear time algorithms
Theoretical aspects of networking, information retrieval, computational biology, and databases
Papers that broaden the reach of the theory of computing or raise important problems benefiting from theoretical investigation are encouraged.