The 58th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2026) will feature an online poster session, designed to engage both in-person attendees and members of the broader community who are unable to attend the conference physically. The goal of this session is to facilitate meaningful interactions between in-person, as well as online participants, while allowing more opportunities for authors, including those unable to attend in-person, to showcase their work to the broader TCS community. The poster presenter need not be the same as the live speaker; on the contrary, authors who are not attending STOC will be especially encouraged to present. We believe this will encourage both the online and in-person attendees by providing opportunities for conversations that would otherwise not be available at the conference.
The online poster session will be held on Monday, June 22, 2026 from 18:30 to 19:30 MDT (Mountain Daylight Time, GMT -6) on Gather.Town. We welcome poster presentations for any papers that have been accepted at STOC 2026 and FOCS 2025.
Submission Instructions for Presenters: Anyone wishing to present a poster, should submit it by Friday, June 12, 2026 at the Poster Submission Form. We kindly request that all the posters be submitted by this deadline. Any submissions received after the deadline will be considered at the discretion of the organisers.The posters are intended to spark a longer discussion about the paper itself. A single page, static PDF, preferably in the 16*9 aspect ratio is recommended. There is no strict format and the presenter may choose whatever format that best showcases the paper - a full poster, or a few key slides from the conference talk, or even a single slide that encapsulates the work, and can lead to further conversations.
Format of the Poster Session: This event will be an analogue of an in-person poster session. Each presenter will have their own spot in a virtual "room" on Gather.Town. Attendees can freely walk around this room to browse any posters they like, and interact with the presenters in the vicinity of their poster.
We warmly welcome all remote attendees interested in the poster session, regardless of whether they have a paper at either of the conferences. However, the posters will only feature papers from STOC 2026 and FOCS 2025. A link to the Gather.town arena, alongside the list of posters and their layout, will be shared here closer to the date of the event. Instructions to use the Gather.Town platform can be found here.
For any further questions please reach out to: Ian Mertz and Ninad Rajgopal.
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Clément L. Canonne, University of Sydney |
Joshua A. Grochow, University of Colorado Boulder |
Ninad Rajgopal, Charles University |