APPROX 2026

Important Deadlines:

• Submissions: May 6, 2026.
• Notifications: June 25, 2026.
• Camera Ready: July 12, 2026.

Program Committee:

Kristóf Bérczi, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign.
Leah Epstein, University of Haifa, Haifa.
Arindam Khan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Euiwoong Lee, University of Michigan.
Shi Li, Nanjing University.
Konstantin Makarychev, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Ben Moseley, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Alantha Newman, University of Grenoble Alpes.
Neil Olver, London School of Economics, London.
Mohammad Salavatipour, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
Roy Schwartz, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
Mohit Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
Ali Vakilian, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg.

Scope

Papers are solicited in all research areas related to approximation, including but not limited to:

• approximation algorithms
• hardness of approximation
• small space, sub-linear time and streaming algorithms
• online algorithms
• approaches that go beyond worst-case analysis
• distributed and parallel approximation​
• embeddings and metric space methods
• mathematical programming methods
• spectral methods
• combinatorial optimization
• algorithmic game theory, mechanism design and economics
• computational geometric problems
• approximate learning

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