ICALP/PODC/SPAA 2026


Royal Holloway, University of London will host the 2026 instances of the ICALP, PODC, and SPAA conferences, along with associated workshops, from 6–10 July, 2026.

ICALP

The International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) is the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).

PODC

The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) is an international forum on the theory, design, analysis, implementation and application of distributed systems and networks.

SPAA

The ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) and organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

Workshops

The following workshops will be held alongside the main conferences.

Invited Speakers


Nutan Limaye
IT University of Copenhagen
(ICALP)

Karl Bringmann
ETH Zurich
(ICALP)

Georg Zetzsche
MPI-SWS
(ICALP)

Venkatesan Guruswami
UC Berkeley
(ICALP)

Robert Tarjan
Princeton University
(PODC/SPAA)

Peter Sanders
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(PODC/SPAA)

Gopal Pandurangan
University of Houston
(PODC, Dijkstra Prize talk)

Important Dates