17th Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium

April 13-17 2026, Florianópolis, Brazil.
(there will be mini-courses/tutorials starting April 12th)

Floripa
3 OCT

New deadlines and more

The submission deadline has been extended, and the venue for the conference has been announced.

About

LATIN (Latin American Theoretical Informatics) was born in 1992, when a group of Latin American researchers, under the leadership of Imre Simon (São Paulo, Brazil), launched the first of a series of symposia in theoretical computer science, to be held triennially in Latin America. Since 1998 it has been held biennially: Valparaiso, Chile (1995); Campinas, Brazil (1998); Punta del Este, Uruguay (2000); Cancún, Mexico (2002); Buenos Aires, Argentina (2004); Valdivia, Chile (2006); Búzios, Brazil (2008); Oaxaca, Mexico (2010); Arequipa, Peru (2012); Montevideo, Uruguay (2014); Ensenada, Mexico (2016); Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018); São Paulo, Brazil (2020); Guanajuato, Mexico (2022); Puerto Varas, Chile (2024).

We are excited to have LATIN2026 in Florianópolis, a paradise in the south of Brazil!

For further information on LATIN, please visit the LATIN Symposium Website.

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.

News!

October 3, 2025

Deadlines were updated and venue was announced.

July 27, 2025

First call for papers was published.

June 23, 2025

Website was created.

Papers

Important Dates

Attention: all deadlines are at 11:59pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone.

October 6, 2025

October 13, 2025

Short abstract submission

October 13, 2025

October 20, 2025

Paper submission

January 9, 2026

Author notification

Early February, 2026

Camera-ready final version

April 13-17, 2026

LATIN 2026 Conference
(with mini-courses on the 12th)

Submission

Submissions are limited to fifteen (15) single-column letter-size pages in Springer LNCS format; see the LNCS author 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.

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

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of LATIN, which will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Accepted papers need to be presented in-person in order to appear in the proceedings of LATIN. There must be a full registration associated with every accepted paper (even if the speaker qualifies for a discounted registration).

Special Issue

We are arranging a journal special issue dedicated to selected papers of LATIN 2026; an announcement is expected in October.

Awards

Imre Simon Test of Time Award

As of 2012, the Imre Simon Test-of-Time Award is given to the LATIN paper deemed most influential among all those published at least ten years prior to the current edition of the conference.
Papers published in the LATIN proceedings up to and including 2016 are eligible for the 2026 award.

For more information on the nomination process see the permanent website on the award.

Best Paper Award

Papers presented at the conference will be considered for the LATIN 2026 Alejandro López-Ortiz Best Paper Award.

General Information

Venue

The site of LATIN 2026 will be the "Auditório do CCB", at the Campus of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC.

Local Information

Known as the "Magic Island," Florianópolis is the capital of the state of Santa Catarina and one of Brazil's most charming destinations. The city offers a unique combination of natural beauty - with beaches, hills, and lagoons - and a vibrant urban environment with a high quality of life.

Campus Life
Modern Campus
Students
Student Life
Faculty
Expert Faculty

Committees

General LATIN2026 Chair

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
  • 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

Steering 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