CONCUR 2026
The 37th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR) brings together researchers, developers, and students in order to advance the theory of concurrency, and promote its applications. The 2026 edition will be co-located with QEST+FORMATS, FMICS and a number of workshops under the joint name CONFEST 2026, which will take place September 1-5, 2026 at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Important dates
- Abstracts: 20 April, 2026 (AoE)
- Submissions: 27 April, 2026 (AoE)
- Rebuttal: 1 – 3 June, 2026 (AoE)
- Notification: 15 June, 2026 (AoE)
- Camera Ready: 29 June, 2026 (AoE)
- Conference: 1 – 4 September, 2026
CONCUR Invited Speakers
Test-of-time Awards
This year, two papers will receive the CONCUR Test-of-Time Award:
- Naoki Kobayashi, A New Type System for Deadlock-Free Processes, CONCUR’06
- Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A. Henzinger, Nir Piterman, Strategy Logic, CONCUR’07
See here and here for interviews of the winners.
Congratulations to all authors!
Best Paper Award
The following papers were nominated for the CONCUR 2026 Best Paper Award.
- Robin Jourde, Henning Urbat, Sergey Goncharov, Stelios Tsampas and Jonas Forster, Compositionality in Coalgebraic Trace Semantics
- Jonas Forster, Lutz Schröder, Paul Wild, Barbara König and Pedro Nora, Threshold-Based Behavioural Distances
- Nathalie Bertrand, Patricia Bouyer, Luc Lapointe and Corto Mascle, WinPop: Making populations win together
- Syyeda Zainab Fatmi, Stefan Kiefer, David Parker and Franck van Breugel, On the Continuity of the Probabilistic Bisimilarity Distance
- Michal Ajdarów, A. R. Balasubramanian and Łukasz Orlikowski, Reachability in Fixed-Dimensional Continuous VASS
This list is ordered by paper ID and is the result of a ranked voting; among the PC. The winner (highlighted above) came out as the unique Condorcet winner. We used the Schulze method to break ties to compute the top 5 as nominees. Anonymised ballots can be found here.
For questions please contact the PC chairs via concur2026@easychair.org.