December 14-17, 2025

Sydney, Australia

66th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 2025


Overview

The 66th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2025), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, will be held in Sydney, Australia, December 14-17. Information about previous conferences can be found at the FOCS Conference Archive.

See the Call for Papers for more information.

News and Announcements

  • The submission server is open!
  • Please consider nominating worthy candidates to the Knuth Prize!  The prize is awarded “for major research accomplishments and contributions to the foundations of computer science over an extended period of time”, with a ceremony alternating between STOC/FOCS and will be presented at STOC 2025 this year. The Knuth Prize Committee this year includes Noga Alon, Edith Cohen (Chair), David Eppstein, Valerie King, Salil Vadhan, and Moshe Vardi.  ⏰ Deadline:  March 31

Important dates

Submission deadline

April 3, 2025 at 8PM ET

Paper notification

July 8, 2025

Workshop proposal deadline

TBC

Early registration deadline

TBC

Conference dates

December 14–17, 2025

Organizers

Program ChairRan Raz, Princeton University
Program Co-ChairRotem Oshman, Tel-Aviv University and NYU
General ChairClément Canonne, University of Sydney
Finance ChairTroy Lee, University of Technology Sydney
Workshop ChairsMohsen Ghaffari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dakshita Khurana, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Safe ToC AdvocatesSumegha Garg, Rutgers University
Divyarthi Mohan, Boston University
Clément Canonne, University of Sydney
TCS For All(coming soon)
IEEE TCMF ChairRan Canetti, Boston University 
IEEE TCMF Vice ChairRocco Servedio, Columbia University

Sponsors

 

Silver

                                         Jane Street

Bronze 

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