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FOCS Acceptance Rate and Submission Statistics

IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science is tracked by CS Conf Stats as a Theory conference. The dataset covers 39 events from 1976-2024.

FOCS 2024 accepted 131 papers out of 500 submissions, for an acceptance rate of 26.2%.

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Latest Acceptance Rate
26.2%
2024: 131 accepted / 500 submitted
Years Covered
39
1976-2024
Discipline
Theory
Theory of Computation, Algorithms, Computational Complexity

Yearly Statistics

Year Location Accepted Submitted Acceptance Rate Second Track Note
2024 Chicago, USA 131 500 26.2% nearly 500 submissions
2023 Santa Cruz, California, USA 141 421 33.5%
2022 Denver, USA 110 296 37.2%
2021 Online, Online 117 340 34.4%
2020 Online, Online 127 399 31.8%
2019 Baltimore, USA 92 318 28.9%
2018 Paris, France 86 320 26.9%
2017 Berkeley, California, USA 90 323 27.9%
2016 New Brunswick, USA 85 307 27.7%
2015 Berkeley, California, USA 86 314 27.4%
2014 Philadelphia, USA 68 273 24.9%
2013 Berkeley, California, USA 79 281 28.1%
2012 New Brunswick, USA 79 248 31.9%
2011 Palm Springs, California, USA 85 292 29.1%
2010 Las Vegas, USA 81 270 30.0%
2009 Atlanta, USA 75 249 30.1%
2008 Philadelphia, USA 79 276 28.6%
2007 Providence, Rhode Island, USA 66 302 21.9%
2006 Berkeley, California, USA 71 240 29.6%
2005 Pittsburgh, USA 62 276 22.5%
2004 Rome, Italy 64 272 23.5%
2003 Cambridge (MA), USA 62 254 24.4%
2002 Vancouver, Canada 77 279 27.6%
2001 Las Vegas, USA 63 214 29.4%
2000 Redondo Beach, California, USA 66 206 32.0%
1999 New York City, USA 67 218 30.7%
1998 Palo Alto, California, USA 76 204 37.3%
1996 Burlington, USA 63 174 36.2%
1987 Los Angeles, California, USA 53 195 27.2%
1986 Toronto, Canada 54 184 29.3%
1985 Portland, USA 61 204 29.9%
1983 Tucson, USA 60 160 37.5%
1982 Chicago, USA 46 169 27.2%
1981 Nashville, USA 51 135 37.8%
1980 Syracuse, USA 45 146 30.8%
1979 San Juan, Puerto Rico 43 150 28.7%
1978 Ann Arbor, USA 32 129 24.8%
1977 Providence, Rhode Island, USA 31 92 33.7%
1976 Houston, USA 29 75 38.7%

Conference Details

Full Title
IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Main Discipline
Theory of Computation, Algorithms, Computational Complexity
Other Topics
Cryptography, ML Theory, Quantum Computing, Optimization, Derandomization & Pseudorandomness
Parent Organization
IEEE, IEEE CompSoc
Notes
No conference-level note is recorded.

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