[TYPES/announce] POPL 2025 Student Research Competition Call for Submissions

[Ralf Jung]

SRC at POPL 2026 Call for Submissions
ACM Student Research Competition

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Location: Rennes, France

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Important Dates

Abstract Submission: Thu 30 Oct 2025
Notification of (Conditional) Acceptance: Mon 1 Dec 2025
Re-Submission for Conditionally Accepted Abstracts: Thu 4 Dec 2025
Notification of Final Acceptance: Mon 8 Dec 2025

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Overview

POPL 2026 will host an ACM Student Research Competition, where undergraduate and 
graduate students can present their original research before a panel of judges 
and conference attendees. This year’s competition will consist of three rounds:

- Round 1, Extended abstract: All students are encouraged to submit an extended 
abstract outlining their research. The submission should be up to three pages 
using “\documentclass[acmsmall,nonacm]{acmart}”.

- Round 2, Poster at POPL: Based on the submissions, a panel of judges will 
select the most promising entrants to participate in a poster session at POPL. 
In the poster session, students will be able to interact with POPL attendees and 
judges. After the poster session, three finalists in each category 
(graduate/undergraduate) will be selected to advance to the next round.

- Round 3, Oral presentation at POPL: The last round will consist of a short 
oral live presentation at POPL to compete for the final awards in each category. 
This round will also select an overall winner who will advance to the ACM SRC 
Grand Finals.

Call for Submissions

POPL invites students to participate in the Student Research Competition in 
order to present their research and get feedback from prominent members of the 
programming language research community. Please submit your extended abstracts 
through HotCRP:

   https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://popl26src.hotcrp.com__;!!IBzWLUs!VM9aVvQ6Kc62mRcq9MwigaZg7GXgOZwsC7OWkJJV0nsNKT4eWYl5q2LusJaIWYR54OmlWhv4JO1-ds8xx1SGZGC9mAZQJTnrAQ$ 

Submissions must be original research that is not already published at POPL or 
another conference or journal. One of the goals of the SRC is to give students 
feedback on ongoing, unpublished work. Furthermore, the submission must be 
authored solely by the student. If the work is collaborative with others and/or 
part of a larger group project, the submission should make clear what the 
student’s role was and should focus on that portion of the work.

The submission should be up to three pages using 
‘\documentclass[acmsmall,nonacm]{acmart}’. The submission does not itself need 
to start with an “abstract”; the introduction can start immediately after the 
author list. Reference lists do not count towards the three-page limit. You may 
write appendices after the three-page limit, but please be noted that the 
committee is not required to read them.

This year, we will have two review cycles. For each submission, one of the 
following decisions will be made:

- Accept: submissions that proceed to the next round unconditionally.

- Conditional Accept: submissions that receive revision suggestions from the PC 
members. Authors will have 3 days to revise the submission accordingly and then 
resubmit. The revised submissionss will then be re-evaluated, and either 
accepted or rejected.

- Reject: submissions that will not proceed to the next round.

For more details, please see:
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