2026
The 42nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2026) is
planned to be held in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. It brings together the global
community of researchers who work on a large variety of aspects that combine
geometry, algorithms and applications. To allow a broad audience to actively
participate in the community's major scientific event, this year SoCG will
again be accompanied by a series of satellite events, which together
constitute
"CG Week 2026".
One of these satellite events will be the "Computational Geometry: Young
Researchers Forum" (CG:YRF), which is aimed at current and recent students.
The
active involvement by students and recent graduates in research,
discussions,
and social events has been a longstanding tradition in the CG community.
Participation in a top-level event such as SoCG can be educating,
motivating,
and useful for networking, both with other students and with more senior
scientists.
The YRF presents young researchers (defined as not having received a formal
doctorate before January 1, 2024) an opportunity to present their work (in
progress as well as finished results) to the CG community in a friendly,
open
setting. Just like in the main event, presentations will be given in the
form
of talks. A pre-screening (but no formal review process) will ensure
appropriate quality control.
CG:YRF 2026 easychair submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgyrf2026
Important Dates (deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth)
Deadline for submissions 6th March
Conditional acceptance 3rd April
Deadline for revisions 10th April
Notification of acceptance 17th April
CG-Week 2-5 June
Submission guidelines
The idea of the event is for young researchers to present new and ongoing
work. Therefore, the work should not have appeared in print in a formally
reviewed proceedings volume or journal by the time of submission deadline,
and at least one author must be a young researcher.
Topics must fit into the general context of SoCG, as described in the call
for SoCG submissions:
https://cgweek26.computational-geometry.org/contribute/
Submissions must be formatted according to the same style file as regular
SoCG submissions and not exceed 80 lines, excluding front matter and
references. Unlike SoCG, YRF is not employing double-blind reviewing this
year. To ensure an accurate line counting, authors must use the LaTeX class
file socg-lipics-v2021
(at https://computational-geometry.org/guidelines/socg-lipics-v2021.cls),
which is a wrapper around the standard LIPIcs class, see these guidelines
( see https://computational-geometry.org/guidelines/linecount_2022_09_19.pdf
).
Authors should refrain from putting excessive amounts of texts in parts in
which lines are not counted automatically.
Submissions can contain an appendix of arbitrary length to provide further
details for the screening process, but the main body of the text should be
understandable without reading the appendix. Appendices will also not be
contained in the booklet (see below).
Accepted abstracts will be compiled in a booklet of abstracts that will be
distributed among the participants; this should not be considered a formal
publication. In particular, participants are encouraged to submit (an
extended version of) their presented work to a conference with formal
proceedings and/or to a journal. Booklets of abstracts from previous years'
YRF are available on https://www.computational-geometry.org.
The work must be presented at CG:YRF by an author who is a young
researcher. Otherwise, it will be removed from the program.
We will employ a two-phase screening process. After the first review phase,
there will be a notification of either rejection (if the result is clearly
out of scope or technically incorrect), or conditional acceptance,
accompanied with a description of required changes to be made (either with
respect to content or format). In the second phase, we will check whether
the changes have been implemented satisfactorily, and if not, a paper may
still be rejected. The screening process is intended to ensure the
technical quality of the presented work. Submissions that are not
well-written risk rejection, irrespective of correctness. Authors are
strongly encouraged to have their submissions proofread by their advisor or
another experienced scientist.
Early submission
Some young researchers need more time to arrange for travel, visas, or
funding. Authors are thus welcome to submit before the deadline above, in
order for the submission to be reviewed earlier (including earlier
notification of acceptance, rejection or conditional acceptance). Please
notify the PC chair after you have made such an early submission.
All submissions will be judged according to the same standards of quality
regardless of the submission date. It is acceptable to have parallel
submission of the same results to SoCG and YRF; however, it is expected
that the YRF submission will be withdrawn if the full paper is accepted to
SoCG. The reviewing for YRF is completely independent of the reviewing for
SoCG.
YRF PC:
André van Renssen (The University of Sydney)
Carolin Rehs (Dortmund University)
Evanthia Papadopoulou (Università della Svizzera italiana)
Florian Russold (TU Graz)
Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik (University at Albany)
Jack Stade (University of Copenhagen)
Meirav Zehavi (Ben-Gurion University)
Peyman Afshani (Aarhus University) (chair)
Rahul Saladi (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore)
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