The twelfth CALDAM (CALDAM 2026) will be organized by the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad (IIT Dharwad) from 12th to 14th of February 2026.

Submission Guidelines

CALDAM 2026 invites papers describing original research in the areas of design, analysis and experimental evaluation of algorithms and in discrete applied mathematics. An indicative list of sub-areas are given below. Papers must be typeset using LaTeX/LaTeX2e and may not exceed 12 pages in LNCS style, including bibliographic references. Further details may be included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Only electronic submission is allowed. Submitted papers must describe previously unpublished work and may not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings or to a refereed journal. Please find the guidelines for authors on the Springer website.

CALDAM Topics

Approximation Algorithms | Combinatorial Algorithms | Combinatorics | Data Structures | Parallel and Distributed Algorithms | Combinatorial Geometry | Graph Drawing | Graph Theory | Computational Geometry | Online Algorithms | Network Optimization | | Randomized Algorithms | Parameterized Complexity | Theoretical Aspects of Machine Learning | Computational Learning Theory

For more details, check out the website at https://caldam2026.iitdh.ac.in

Proceedings

The proceedings of accepted papers of CALDAM 2026 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. Also, selected papers of CALDAM 2026 are likely to be published in a special issue of the Discrete Applied Mathematics (DAM) journal of Elsevier.

Important Dates

• Last date for Paper Submission: September 22, 2025, AoE 

• Notification of Acceptance: November 14, 2025, AoE

• Camera-ready Version: November 28, 2025, AoE

Committees

   Steering Committee

• Subir Kumar Ghosh (chair), Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India

• Gyula O. H. Katona, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

• János Pach, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary 

• Swami Sarvattomananda, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India

• Chee Yap, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA.

• Anil Maheshwari, Carleton University, Canada

   Program Committee

• Ahmad Biniaz, University of Windsor, Canada 

• Aida Abiad, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands 

• André van Renssen, University of Sydney, Australia

• Aritra Banik, National Institute of Science Education and Research, India

• Arti Pandey  (co-chair), Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India

• Bhawani Panda, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

• Bodhayan Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

• Christopher Duffy, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Daya Gaur, University of Lethbridge, Canada

• Dömötör Pálvölgyi, Institute of Mathematics, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary 

• Florent Foucaud, LIMOS, Université Clermont Auvergne, France

• Indhumathi Raman,  SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India

• Iztok Peterin, University of Maribor, Slovenia

• Joachim Gudmundsson, University of Sydney, Australia

• Manoj Changat, University of Kerala, India

• Monika Pilśniak, AGH University, Poland

• Maria Saumell, Czech Technical University, Prague.

• Neeldhara Misra (co-chair), Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India

• Niranjan Balachandran, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

• Palash Dey, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India 

• Rahul Muthu, Dhirubai Ambani University, India

• Rishi Ranjan Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India

• Rogers Mathew, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

• Sandip Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

• Sasmita Barik, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India

• Sathish Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, India

• Subrahmanyam Kalyansundaram, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

• Sumit Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

• Wilfried Imrich, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria 

• Wolfgang Mulzer Freie, Universität Berlin, Germany 

   Organizing Committee

• Zin Mar Myint, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India

• Supraja D K, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India

• Kumud Singh Porte, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India

• Sandeep R B, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India

• Sagnik Sen (conference chair), Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Andrzej Dudek, Western Michigan University, USA.
• Prof. Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Prof. Sandip Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

Venue

The conference will be held at Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, Permanent Campus, Dharwad - 580011, Karnataka, India. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to caldam2026@iitdh.ac.in