IARCS, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, announces the 36th Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science conference at Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India. The FSTTCS conference is a forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology.

Representative areas include, but are not limited to, the following.

Algorithms and Data Structures Algorithmic Graph Theory and Combinatorics Approximation Algorithms Automata and Formal Languages Combinatorial Optimization Communication Complexity Computational Biology Computational Complexity Computational Geometry Computational Learning Theory Cryptography and Security Game Theory and Mechanism Design Logic in Computer Science

Model Theory, Modal and Temporal Logics Models of Concurrent and Distributed Systems Models of Timed, Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems Parallel, Distributed and Online Algorithms Parameterized Complexity Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages Program Analysis and Transformation Proof Complexity Quantum Computing Randomness in Computing Specification, Verification, and Synthesis Theorem Proving, Decision Procedures, and Model Checking Theoretical Aspects of Mobile and High-Performance Computing

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract, presenting original research on the theory of Computer Science, of no more than 12 pages, including the title page, but excluding references and any appendix, in the LIPIcs style (instructions available here). The usage of pdflatex and the LIPIcs style file (see here for some formatting tricks) are mandatory: papers that deviate significantly from the required format may be rejected without consideration of merit.

Submissions will be in electronic form via EasyChair.

Accepted papers will be published as proceedings of the conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), under a CC-BY license, as a free, open, electronic archive with access to all. Instructions for formatting camera-ready versions will be communicated to the authors of accepted papers. Authors will retain full rights over their work. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference.

We invite proposals for workshops to be held along with FSTTCS (on Dec. 12th or 16th). Workshops can follow a half-day or a full-day format. The details of the organization of each workshop are left to its organizers. Each workshop proposal should include the following information:

• Title and abstract giving the goals and scope of the workshop
• Description of the target audience
• List of tentative speakers (if available)
• Tentative organizing committee members
• Contact information for the organizer.

Please send your proposals by email to fsttcs2016@easychair.org.