51st International Conference on Current Trends
in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
February 9–13, 2026, Kraków, Poland
https://sofsem.uj.edu.pl
sofsem@uj.edu.pl
TL;DR:
- The conference will start with the 1-day PhD school
"Introduction to Algorithms with Predictions" (Mon, Feb. 9, 2026).
- Scientific program with talks of 6 (!) well-known invited speakers.
- There will be a poster session.
- Environment encourages collaboration in small groups.
- Kraków is a fantastic Polish city with many sights (e.g., Wawel
Castle – former seat of the Polish king) and the very lively old
Jewish district Kazimierz. Participants are encouraged to extend
their stay to neighboring weekends.
- Rich social program: reception, conference dinner, excursion (city
walk – University Museum – Arcade Game Museum), early-morning run
and ice swimming, board games session, tabletop football match,
retro-programming workshop.
- Cheap accommodation on campus, 15' by tram from the city center,
1' from the conference location.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission: September 15, 2025
Paper Submission: September 18, 2025
Notification: November 10, 2025
Poster Submission: December 1, 2025
Conference: February 9–13, 2026
Invited Speakers
* Jarosław Błasiok, ETH Zurich, CH
* Jarosław Byrka, University of Wrocław, PL
* Sandra Kiefer, University of Oxford, UK
* Linda Kleist, Potsdam University, DE
* Jukka Suomela, Aalto University, FI
* Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh, UK
Tradition
SOFSEM is an annual winter conference devoted to the theory and
practice of computer science. The conference traditionally focuses on
the latest results and developments of fundamental research in
computer science (informatics), inspired by the algorithmic challenges
of our time. SOFSEM has a long tradition as a high-quality research
conference, and a venue where researchers from academia and industry
in all stages of their career can share their insights.
Proceedings and Awards
The proceedings will be published in the subseries ARCoSS (Advanced
Research in Computing and Software Science) of the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. The Program Committee of
SOFSEM 2026 will bestow a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper
Award.
Topics
The program committee encourages submission of original research
papers in all areas of foundations of computer science and artificial
intelligence, including e.g.
– algorithm engineering,
– algorithms and data structures,
– theory of machine learning and data science,
– automata, languages, rewriting systems,
– combinatorial optimization,
– combinatorics on words,
– computability, decidability, models of computation,
– computational complexity,
– computational geometry,
– cryptography and security,
– logic in computer science,
– games and online algorithms,
– graph drawing,
– graph algorithms,
– mathematical programming,
– network science,
– parallel and distributed computing,
– parameterized complexity,
– probabilistic and analytic methods in computer science,
– quantum computing,
– robotics,
and other relevant theory topics in computing and AI.
Submission Guidelines
Papers must be submitted electronically through EasyChair.
Submissions should be prepared in accordance with Springer's
Instructions for Authors of LNCS Proceedings, and use either the LaTeX
or the Word templates provided on the publisher's website. The length
must not exceed 12 pages (excluding references).
EasyChair submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sofsem2026
No prior publication or simultaneous submission to other conferences
or journals are allowed (except preprint repositories such as arXiv or
workshops without formal published proceedings). There is no need to
anonymize the submissions.
Authors will be required to submit their accepted papers to the arXiv
repository at the same time as submitting their camera-ready versions,
in order to provide immediate and unrestricted open access to their
papers. The self-archived arXiv papers should consist of (essentially)
the LNCS proceedings version plus an optional clearly marked appendix.
It is expected that each accepted paper is presented by a different
conference participant.
Program Committee
Marthe Bonamy, University of Bordeaux, FR
Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS and Université Paris Cité, FR
Jakub Gajarský, University of Warsaw, PL
Serge Gaspers, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS
Bernhard Gittenberger, TU Wien, AT
Pascal Gollin, University of Primorska, SLO
Gwenaël Joret, Université libre de Bruxelles, BE
Marcin Jurdziński, University of Warwick, UK
Jarkko Kari, University of Turku, FI
Eun Jung Kim, School of Computing, KAIST and DIMAG, Inst. for Basic
Science, KR
Yasuaki Kobayashi, Hokkaido University, JP
Jakub Kozik (co-chair), Jagiellonian University, PL
Rastislav Královič, Comenius University, SK
Matthias Krause, Universität Mannheim, DE
Piotr Krysta, Augusta University, Georgia, USA and University of
Liverpool, UK
Francis Lazarus, Université Grenoble Alpes, FR
Erik Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, NL
Borut Lužar, Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto, SLO
Tomáš Masařík, University of Warsaw, PL
Neeldhara Misra, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, IN
Krzysztof Pietrzak, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, AT
Adam Polak, Bocconi University, IT
Paweł Prałat, Toronto Metropolitan University, CAN
Eric Rivals, University of Montpellier, FR
Liam Roditty, Bar-Ilan University, IL
Paweł Rzążewski, Warsaw University of Technology, PL
Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University, DE
Joachim Spoerhase, University of Liverpool, UK
Frank Stephan, National University of Singapore, SG
Sabine Storandt, Universität Konstanz, DE
Jacek Tabor, Jagiellonian University, PL
Alessandra Tappini, University of Perugia, IT
Torsten Ueckerdt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
Jan Volec, Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ
Alexander Wolff (co-chair), University of Würzburg, DE
Ryo Yoshinaka, Tohoku University, JP
Filip Zagórski, University of Wrocław, PL
Meirav Zehavi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IL
Johannes Zink, Technical University of Munich, DE
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