The 17th Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium will be held on April 13-17, 2026, in Florianópolis, Brazil.  

DATES

• Abstract deadline: October 6, 2025
• Full paper submission deadline: October 13, 2025
• Notification: January 9, 2026
• Camera Ready: early February, 2026
• Symposium: April 13-17, 2026     (* there will be mini-courses/tutorials starting April 12th)

All deadlines are at 11:59pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

SCOPE AND TOPICS

LATIN 2026 is devoted to different areas in theoretical computer science including, but not limited, to:

• algorithmic game theory,
• algorithms (approximation, online, parametrized, randomized, etc.),
• analytic combinatorics and analysis of algorithms,
• automata theory and formal languages,
• coding theory and data compression,
• combinatorial and graph algorithms,
• combinatorial optimization,
• combinatorics and graph theory,
• computational algebra and computational number theory,
• complexity theory,
• computational biology,
• computational geometry,
• cryptology,
• data structures and information retrieval,
• parallel and distributed computing,
• pattern matching,
• quantum computing,
• theoretical foundations of data science and machine learning,
• unconventional models of computation.

SUBMISSION

Submissions are limited to fifteen (15) single-column letter-size pages in Springer LNCS format; see LNCS author guidelines at http://www.springer.com/la/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

This page limit includes figures and references, but it does not include an optional appendix. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be placed in the appendix, which will be read by the program committee members at their discretion. In particular, appendices of accepted papers are not going to be published in the proceedings. The main part of the submission should therefore contain a clear technical presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of the paper's importance within the context of prior work and a description of the key technical and conceptual ideas used to achieve its main claims. 

The conference employs 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. Authors should ensure that any references to their own related work is in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). 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, references should not be omitted or anonymized.

Papers are submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=latin2026

The submissions will be open one month before the abstract submission due date. Submit your abstract via EasyChair, before the abstract submission deadline. For full paper submission the deadline is one week later than that of the abstract submission.

Simultaneous submission of papers to any other conference with published proceedings, as well as the submission of previously published papers, is not allowed. Papers must be written in English. For each accepted paper at least one author must register and attend the symposium (in person) to present it. Moreover, an author cannot register for multiple papers. That is, each accepted paper must have its own registrant.

PROCEEDINGS

There must be a full registration associated with every accepted paper (even if the speaker qualifies for a discounted registration).

Accepted papers need to be presented in-person in order to appear in the proceedings of LATIN, which will be likely published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/la/computer-science/lncs), as in the previous editions of LATIN.

GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR

 Lucia Moura, University of Ottawa, Canada

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Conrado Martínez (co-chair), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Lucia Moura (co-chair), University of Ottawa, Canada
• Gabriela Araujo-Pardo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
• Gill Barequet, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Verónica Becher, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University, Canada
• Amalia Duch Brown, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Eduardo A. Canale, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
• Edgar Chavez, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Mexico
• Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University, United States
• David Eppstein, University of California, Irvine, United States
• Leah Epstein, University of Haifa, Israel
• Esteban Feuerstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Celina de Figueiredo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Travis Gagie, Dalhousie University, Canada
• Luisa Gargano, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
• Konstantinos Georgiou, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
• Mayank Goswami, City University of New York, United States
• Pinar Heggernes, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
• Carlos Hoppen, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Thaís Bardini Idalino, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
• Marcos Kiwi, Universidad de Chile, Chile
• Sudeshna Kolay, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
• Carla Negri Lintzmayer, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
• Zsuzsanna Lipták, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
• Sylvain Lombardy, Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, France
• Kazuhisa Makino, Kyoto University, Japan
• Flávio Keidi Miyazawa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
• Amanda Montejano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
• Guilherme Oliveira Mota, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
• Torsten Mütze, Universität Kassel, Germany
• Gonzalo Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Chile
• Cyril Nicaud, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
• Daniel Panario, Carleton University, Canada
• Pablo Pérez-Lantero, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
• Solon Pissis, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands
• Sergio Rajsbaum, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• Rajeev Raman, University of Leicester, England
• Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
• Andréa W. Richa, Arizona State University, United States
• Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez, Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates
• Martín Safe, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
• Rafael de Santiago, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
• Maria Serna, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• José A. Soto, Universidad de Chile, Chile
• Bettina Speckmann, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Meng-Tsung Tsai, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Alfredo Viola, Casa de Investigadores Científicos La Comarca, Uruguay
• Sebastian Wild, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
• Meirav Zehavi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Ricardo Felipe Custódio, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
• Álvaro Junio Pereira Franco, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
• Thaís Bardini Idalino, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
• Carla Negri Lintzmayer, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
• Guilherme Oliveira Mota, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
• Rafael de Santiago, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Flavia Bonomo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Armando Castañeda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
• Conrado Martínez (chair), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Flávio Keidi Miyazawa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
• Jacques Sakarovitch, CNRS and Télécom Paris, France
• José A. Soto, Universidad de Chile, Chile