PODS 2026: ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS

May 31 – June 5, 2026
Bengaluru, India
https://2026.sigmod.org/calls_papers_pods_research.shtml

Submission deadline: June 3, 2025

The PODS symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical foundation on database systems. Original research papers providing new insights in the specification, design, or implementation of data management tools are called for.

Workshop on Predictions and Uncertainty at COLT 25

June 30, 2025
Lyon, France at COLT 2025
https://vaidehi8913.github.io/predictions-and-uncertainty-colt25/

Submission deadline: May 25, 2025

Predictions from machine learning systems are increasingly being used as inputs to downstream algorithms and decision-making tasks. However, these predictions can be unreliable, and often suffer from biases or overconfidence, highlighting the need for rigorous approaches to modeling their uncertainty. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from across different communities to learn about exciting developments and explore connections between these emerging lines of research. Topics of interest include Conformal Prediction, Algorithms with Predictions, Robust Statistics, Risk-Averse Decision Making, and other approaches for estimating and propagating uncertainty in statistical and algorithmic applications. The workshop includes a poster session, and we invite submissions from a broad range of areas related to uncertainty quantification and using unreliable predictions.

Workshop on the Theory of AI for Scientific Computing

June 30, 2025
Lyon, France
https://tasc-workshop.github.io

Submission deadline: May 23, 2025
Registration deadline: May 23, 2025

The Theory of AI for Scientific Computing (TASC) workshop will be held as part of COLT 2025 and aims to advance the theoretical understanding of AI-augmented scientific computing, including capabilities and limitations of recent methods, principled architectures, unique data-generation and training considerations when connecting ML to downstream tasks, the sample complexity potential of transfer learning and active sampling, and ensuring the robustness of deployed systems and the validity of new discoveries. Our goal is to foster new theory that can bridge the gap between rapid methodological developments and their ultimate goals: scientific understanding and deployable computational systems. Join us on June 30, 2025 in Lyon, France for an exciting program of keynotes, posters, awards, and discussions about building principled connections between learning, algorithms, and the physical sciences, identifying promising scientific computing objectives for AI, and formalizing theoretical problems that will inspire continued progress.

Workshop on Foundations of Post-training

July 30, 2025
Lyon, France (colocated with COLT 2025)
https://fopt-workshop.github.io/

Submission deadline: May 19, 2025

This COLT 2025 workshop seeks to explore the theoretical and practical aspects of the post-training of LLMs, across a diversity of domains and abstractions. The workshop aims to bring together experts from diverse fields including theoretical reinforcement learning, optimization, statistical learning theory, as well as more empirical directions, to identify critical research opportunities.

As a part of FoPt 2025, we invite abstract submissions to a single non-archival track. See our call for abstracts for more details. The submission deadline is Monday, May 19th, 2025.

25th Max Planck Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science

August 18-22, 2025
Saarbrücken (Germany)
https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/algorithms-complexity/adfocs

Registration deadline: August 4, 2025

ADFOCS is an international summer school held annually at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF). The purpose of this summer school is to introduce young researchers to topics which are the focus of current research in theoretical computer science. This year’s topic is “Graph Decompositions and Efficient Algorithms”. Our lecturers are Maria Chudnovsky, Michał Pilipczuk and Thatchaphol Saranurak.

25th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference

August 4-8, 2025
Hong Kong
http://aqis-conf.org/2025/

Submission deadline: April 25, 2025

The AQIS’25 conference will focus on quantum information processing, communication and cryptography, an interdisciplinary field bridging quantum physics, computer science, mathematics, and information technologies. AQIS’25 will be a natural successor of EQIS’01-EQIS’05 and AQIS’06-AQIS’24. AQIS’25 will consist of invited talks, selected oral and poster presentations, as well as other activities.

Workshops, Tutorials, and Community Events at COLT 2025

June 30 – July 4, 2025
Lyon, France
https://learningtheory.org/colt2025/wtc.html

Submission deadline: April 18, 2025

The 38th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2025) will dedicate a day during the main conference program (June 30 – July 4) exclusively to contributed and invited (1) workshops, (2) tutorials, and (3) community-building events (e.g., affinity workshops, mentoring activities, socials). We invite proposals for these in-person events: please submit your proposal submit by email by April 18th AoE (see the call for more details).

Workshop on Algorithms for Large Data

April 14-16, 2025
Online
https://waldo-workshop.github.io/2025.html

On behalf of the organizers – Guy Blanc, Quanquan Liu, Shivam Nadimpalli, Samson Zhou – we would like to invite you to the Workshop on Algorithms for Large Data (Online) 2025, which will be from Monday, April 14th to Wednesday, April 16th. We are pleased to host a fantastic set of speakers giving research talks and due to generous funding from SIGACT, registration is free and all are welcome! Please register by April 7, 2025 for access to the virtual platform. In addition, we will also feature poster sessions on Monday and Wednesday. For more details, please visit https://waldo-workshop.github.io/2025.html. We hope you will join us!

Workshop on Algebraic Complexity, Geometry, and Representations

March 17-21, 2025
University of Warwick
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2024-2025/algebraiccomplexity/

Algebraic Complexity Theory is a vibrant field that has been seeing a tremendous amount of activity in the recent years. Its classical questions have been interwoven with deep questions from algebraic geometry, invariant theory, and representation theory, with recent exciting connections to metacomplexity and proof complexity. The workshop brings together experts from these fields to discuss the current state of the art, discover new connections, and set the directions for the future. Each plenary speaker will explain a recent result and break down its main ideas to a level that is accessible for the mathematically diverse audience. Remote participation via MS Teams is possible.