Dear all, We welcome proposals for workshops and tutorials that fall within the scope of the SPAA community <https://spaa.acm.org/> or address research challenges in related areas/problems that have potential impact on the SPAA community. Proposals will be evaluated on a rolling basis, so early submissions are encouraged and will be reviewed promptly. Please submit proposals to the SPAA 2026 Workshops and Tutorials Chair, Quanquan Liu (quanquan.liu@yale.edu). Proposals should be submitted by April 25, 2026. Proposals should be brief (at most 3 single-column pages). Workshop Proposals: The following information should be included in a workshop proposal: 1. Title 2. Name and email address of the organizer(s) 3. A description of the proposed format and agenda 4. Procedures for selecting participants and presenters Here is a sample template<https://docs.google.com/document/d/15A8DNiWd-qBJsm4GnP1BlUFnXtCZfRaIxjYXm279IQY/edit?usp=sharing> that you may use, although other formats are also acceptable. We welcome workshops that are either invitation-based (example: Workshop on Recent Advances in Parallel and Concurrent Data Structures<https://sites.gatech.edu/spaa24datastr/> in SPAA 2024) or submission-based (example: Highlights of Parallel Computing <https://ucrparlay.github.io/hopc24/> (HOPC) 2024). Tutorial Proposals: Tutorials will be 1 or 1.5 hours long, depending on the number of accepted tutorials and local arrangements. A tutorial proposal should include: 1. Title and abstract 2. An outline of the tutorial content and objectives, with sufficient detail to convey both scope and depth 3. Prerequisite knowledge 4. A very brief biography of the tutorial organizers and relevant information Evaluation Committee: All workshop and tutorial proposals will be evaluated by a committee comprising the following members of the SPAA 2026 organizing committee. * Rezaul Chowdhury (Program Chair) * Quanquan Liu (Workshops and Tutorials Chair) Important Dates: * April 25, 2026: Proposals due * May 10, 2026: Notification of acceptance * July 6, 2026: SPAA workshops/tutorials in London (July 7-10, 2026, SPAA conference) Thank you! Cheers, Quanquan ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/ * **********************************************************