December 14-17, 2025

Sydney, Australia


Activities

Apart from the main program, plenary talks, and workshops, FOCS 2025 will feature a reception and a banquet, as well as several community activities and events, to be announced soon.
  1. πŸŽ“ Graduating Bits (afternoon, Sunday – Day 1): Following the (now) long-standing tradition initiated at ITCS, graduating PhD students and postdoctoral researchers will give short 2-minute presentations introducing themselves, their research interests and plans. Many of these junior researchers will be looking for positions in the upcoming year. Please see πŸ”— this page to register as a presenter, and for their slides and information after the event.
  2. πŸ“ Job Openings Spreadsheet (asynchronous): The πŸ”— Job Openings page has a spreadsheet with information about job openings in Theoretical CS, to help graduating students and junior researchers. If your group plans to hire a postdoc, or a researcher (e.g., in industry), you can use the following form to provide information about the position: https://forms.gle/JSCaHfV5pVGCLXhM7.

More to come. Stay tuned!

Satellite events

There also will be two free satellite events, unaffiliated but collocated with FOCS (both held at the nearby University of Sydney): conference attendees are encouraged to attend either, or both:

      • A Celebration of TCS, December 11–13 (some travel support available)

        A three-day mentoring and research event, celebrating the richness and collegiality of the Theoretical Computer Science community.

      • Trends in Approximation and Online Algorithms (previously Flexible Network Design), December 18–19

        A two-day workshop on recent advances in approximation and online algorithms on network design and related areas