[CPM-SPIRE-L] WCTA 2026: 2nd call for abstracts

[Travis Gagie]

Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (WCTA 2026)
October 16th, McMaster University, Canada

The 21st Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (WCTA 2026) will be
held at McMaster University on October 16th 2026, co-located with SPIRE
2026 and the day after it.

https://sites.google.com/view/spire-2026/wcta


2nd call for abstracts

WCTA is a forum primarily intended for early-stage researchers to present
their work. We encourage junior members of our community to submit a
one-page abstract (not including references) containing preferably
unpublished work, work in progress, surveys of interest, and open problems,
among others.
WCTA has no published proceedings, so the results presented can also be
submitted to other workshops and conferences.


Important dates

  *   Abstract deadline: September 7th, 2026 (anywhere on Earth)

  *   Notification: September 10th, 2026

  *   Workshop: October 16th, 2026


Submission

Please submit a one-page abstract (excluding references) in PDF format via
email to both Travis Gagie (travis.gagie at gmail.com) and Shahin Kamali
(kamalis at yorku.ca)with the subject line "WCTA submission". The workshop
will be in-person, with online presentations only in special cases (e.g.,
authors with travel difficulties). If you want to present online, please
request it in your submission email. There is no fee for WCTA.


Invited Speaker

Ian Munro is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and, until retirement, was
University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design in the
D.R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo,
where he has been a faculty member since completing his PhD at the
University of Toronto in 1971. His research has concentrated on the
efficiency of algorithms and data structures. He has authored over 150
conference and 100 journal papers and has supervised 26 Ph.D.'s on the
subject. Dr. Munro has held visiting positions at a number of major
universities and research labs, including AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton
University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. His consulting
activities have included work with government and several major computer
companies. He has served on the editorial boards of CACM, Inf & Comp, and
B.I.T., and the program committees of most of the major conferences in his
area. He is a former Director of Waterloo's Institute for Computer
Research. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003 and
Fellow of the ACM in 2008, and made University Professor in 2006.


Program Chairs

Travis Gagie
Shahin Kamali (York University)
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