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Abstract submission deadline: Submission deadline: Notification to authors: Conference dates: |
September 2, 2026 (04:59pm PDT) September 4, 2026 (04:59pm PDT) November 6, 2026 January 12-January 15, 2027 |
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Scott Aaronson, University of Texas at Austin Ittai Abraham, a16z Crypto Research Alex Andoni, Columbia University James Bartusek, Columbia University Nir Bitansky, New York University Andrej Bogdanov, University of Ottawa John Bostanci, Simons Institute and UC Berkeley Jop Briet, CWI & Leiden University Nataly Brukhim, DIMACS and Institute for Advanced Study Niv Buchbinder, Tel Aviv University Zachary Chase, Rutgers University Gil Cohen, Tel Aviv University Natalie Collina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anindya De, University of Pennsylvania Yotam Dikstein, Tel Aviv University Dean Doron, Ben-Gurion University Alon Eden, Hebrew University Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv University Nick Fischer, Max Planck Institute for Informatics Ran Gelles, Bar-Ilan University Ira Globus-Harris, Cornell University Eli Goldin, Princeton University Kira Goldner, Boston University Sam Gunn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Shuichi Hirahara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Rahul Ilango, Institute for Advanced Study Yuval Ishai, Technion and AWS (chair) |
Zhengzhong Jin, Northeastern University Rasmus Kyng, ETH Zurich Kasper Green Larsen, Aarhus University Jerry Li, University of Washington Nutan Limaye, IT University of Copenhagen Qipeng Liu, University of California San Diego Peter Manohar, Institute for Advanced Study Yishay Mansour, Tel Aviv University and Google Research Pasin Manurangsi, Google Research Tushant Mittal, Stanford University Jonathan Mosheiff, Ben-Gurion University Jakob Nordström, University of Copenhagen and Lund University Chirag Pabbaraju, Stanford University Merav Parter, Weizmann Institute of Science Rafael Pass, Cornell Tech and Technion David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science Shiri Ron, Tel Aviv University and Princeton University Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University Ramprasad Saptharishi, TIFR Mumbai Jessica Sorrell, Johns Hopkins University Eva Tardos, Cornell University Justin Thaler, a16z Crypto Research and Georgetown University Grigoris Velegkas, Google Research Kewen Wu, Caltech Lydia Zakynthinou, Johns Hopkins University Meirav Zehavi, Ben-Gurion University |
submission server: TBA
Formatting. The font size on submissions should be at least 11 point and the paper should be single column. Beyond these, there are no formatting requirements. Authors are required to submit a COI declaration upon submission.
Double-blind reviewing. The conference will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. In particular, authors’ names, affiliations, and email addresses should not appear at the beginning or in the body of the submission. (Author and institution information will be uploaded separately on the submission site.) The purpose of this double-blind process is to help PC members and external reviewers come to a judgment about the paper without unconscious bias, and is not intended to make it impossible for them to discover who the authors are. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult. In particular, important references should not be omitted or anonymized. In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For example, authors may (and are in fact encouraged to) post their papers to arXiv/ECCC/IACR etc.
Content. Authors should strive to make their paper accessible not only to experts in their subarea, but also to the theory community at large. The submission should include clear proofs of all central claims. In addition, it is strongly recommended that the paper contain, within the first 10 pages, a concise and clear presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of its significance, innovations, and place within (or outside) of our field's scope and literature. The committee will put a premium on simple and straightforward writing that clearly conveys the results of the paper.
PC submissions. Submissions authored by program committee members (with the exception of the PC chair) are allowed. Utmost care will be taken to avoid COIs with PC submissions and to ensure that the reviews and the discussion remain confidential from the authors. PC submissions will not receive any advantage.
Confidentiality. All submissions will be treated as confidential, and will only be disclosed to the committee and their chosen sub-referees. In addition, the program committee may consult with journal editors and program chairs of other conferences about controversial issues such as parallel submissions.
Results published/presented/submitted at another archival conference will not be considered for ITCS. Simultaneous submission to ITCS and to a journal is allowed. Papers accepted to ITCS should not be submitted to any other archival conferences.
Authors are encouraged to post full versions of their submissions in a freely accessible online repository such as Arxiv, the ECCC, or the Cryptology ePrint archive. It is generally expected that authors of accepted papers will make full versions of their papers, with proofs, available before the conference begins.
ITCS will follow a similar policy to STOC 2026 and FOCS 2026. Key points (taken from the FOCS 2026 call):
AI Disclosure: We used[Tool Name]to assist with[Brief Description of Use]. The tool materially affected[Sections X and Y]. More details can be found in[Section Z]. The authors verified the correctness and originality of all content including references.
Potential concerns regarding compliance with these principles will be handled by the program committee in accordance with conference procedures.
All the talks will be in person: at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference and give an in-person presentation describing the work. In addition, the authors of each paper will be asked to upload a 20-25 minute pre-recorded talk that will be posted online.
Participants near to graduation (on either side) will be given an opportunity to present (in 2-3 minutes) their results, research, plans, personality, and so on during the "Graduating bits" session. This is one of the important traditions of ITCS, and not to be missed! Details on how to participate will be provided closer to the conference date.
The committee may award a "best student paper" award. To be eligible, all of the paper's authors should have been students who graduated no earlier than January 1st, 2026. The authors should note the paper's eligibility on the submission page
New! The committee may award a "best paper" award. All submitted papers are eligible for this award.
ITCS is committed to an inclusive conference experience, respectful of all participants, and free from any discrimination or harassment, including unwelcome advances or propositions of an intimate nature, particularly when coming from a more senior researcher to a less senior one. All ITCS attendees are expected to behave accordingly. If you experience or witness discrimination, harassment or other unethical behavior at the conference, we encourage you to seek advice by contacting SafeToC advocates (http://safetoc.org/index.php/toc-advisors/)
The accepted papers will be published by LIPIcs in the electronic proceedings of the conference. To accommodate the publishing traditions of different fields, authors of accepted papers can ask the PC chair to have only a one page abstract of the paper appear in the proceedings, along with a URL pointing to the PDF of the full paper on an online archive.
