Call for Papers
Applied category theory (ACT) is a field of growing importance to communities of researchers
in computer science, logic, engineering, physics, biology, chemistry,
social science, systems, linguistics and other subjects.
The background and experience of the members of the ACT community is as varied as the systems being studied.
The goal of the Applied Category Theory conference series is to bring researchers together,
strengthen the applied category theory community, disseminate the latest results, and facilitate
further development of the field.
Submissions
We accept submissions in English in the following three categories:
- Research
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Conference Papers should present original, high-quality work in the style of a
computer science conference paper (up to 12 pages, not counting the bibliography;
more detailed parts of proofs may be included in an appendix for the convenience of the reviewers).
Such submissions should not be an abridged version of an existing journal article although
pre-submission arXiv preprints are permitted. These submissions will be adjudicated for both a
talk and publication in the conference proceedings.
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Talk proposals not to be published in the proceedings,
e.g. about work accepted/submitted/published elsewhere, should be submitted as abstracts,
one or two pages long. Authors are encouraged to include links to any full versions of their papers,
preprints or manuscripts. The purpose of the abstract is to provide a basis for determining the
topics and quality of the anticipated presentation.
- Software demonstrations
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Software demonstration proposals should also be submitted as abstracts,
one or two pages. The purpose of the abstract is to provide the program committee with
enough information to assess the content of the demonstration.
- Teaching and communication
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Conference Papers* should present original, high-quality work conference paper
(up to 12 pages, not counting the bibliography).
The submissions, along with the Introduction and Conclusion sections may include sections on
Related work, Methodology, Results and, Discussion and Implications.
Such submissions should not be an abridged version of an existing journal article although
pre-submission arXiv preprints are permitted. These submissions will be adjudicated for both a
talk and publication in the conference proceedings.
-
Talk proposals* not to be published in the proceedings, should also be submitted as abstracts,
one to three pages. The purpose of the abstract is to provide the program committee with
enough information to assess the content and quality of the anticipated presentation.
*Submissions must specify at least one of the following "keywords" in EasyChair:
- Teaching in Applied Category Theory
- Communication in Applied Category Theory
The original conference papers will ultimately be published with EPTCS,
and authors are advised to use the style files available at
style.eptcs.org.
The conference will include an industry session and a community meeting. The conference is expected to be hybrid.
Submission, dates and deadlines
Please submit your papers and talk proposals at
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=act2026.
(Reviewing is single-blind, and we are not making public the reviews,
reviewer names, the discussions nor the list of under-review submissions.
This is the same as previous instances of ACT.)
The exact deadline time on these dates is given
by anywhere on earth (AoE).
| Abstracts Due: 23 March 2026 |
| Papers Due: 30 March 2026 |
| Author Notification: 11 May 2026 |
| Conference: 6 - 10 July 2026 |