[TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: Scheme Workshop 20206 co-located with ICFP (Indianapolis, US)

[Wei, Guannan]

The 2026 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop (co-located with ICFP at Indianapolis, United States) is calling for submissions.

Website: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://icfp26.sigplan.org/home/scheme-2026__;!!IBzWLUs!Vb8R5o2NKoyxStsNEbFZ5th3zOgbThgS1fY8Xl6ImCT3_vakTamaUMaz3qxc4ubGfgiIWnbkGIGq0qZCTiveuH-DglkkgjVt6NlJYw$ 

We invite high-quality papers and talk proposals about novel research results, 
lessons learned from practical experience in an industrial or educational setting, 
and even new insights on old ideas. We welcome and encourage submissions 
that apply to any dynamic functional language, especially those that can be 
considered a Scheme: from strict subsets of RnRS to other "Scheme” 
implementations, to Racket, to Lisp dialects including Clojure, Emacs Lisp, 
Common Lisp, to functional languages with continuations and/or macros 
(or extended to have them) such as Dylan, ECMAScript, Hop, Lua, Scala, 
Rust, etc. The elegance of the paper and the relevance of its topic to the 
interests of Schemers will matter more than the surface syntax of the examples 
used.

### Topics

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Interaction: program-development environments, debugging, testing, refactoring
- Implementation: interpreters, compilers, tools, garbage collectors, benchmarks
- Extension: macros, hygiene, domain-specific languages, reflection, and how such extension affects interaction
- Expression: control, modularity, ad hoc and parametric polymorphism, types, aspects, ownership models, concurrency, distribution, parallelism, non-determinism, probabilism, and other programming paradigms
- Integration: build tools, deployment, interoperation with other languages and systems
- Formal semantics: theory, analyses and transformations, partial evaluation
- Human factors: past, present and future history, evolution and sociology of the language Scheme, its standard and its dialects
- Education: approaches, experiences, curricula
- Applications: industrial uses of Scheme
- Scheme pearls: elegant, instructive uses of Scheme

### Important Dates

- Submission deadline: Friday, May 22 2026
- Author notification: Friday, June 26, 2026
- Camera-ready versions deadline: Tuesday, July 7, 2026
- Workshop day: Saturday, August 29, 2026

All deadlines are 23:59 UTC-12, anywhere on Earth.

### Submission Information

Please submit papers through the workshop’s HotCRP site: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://scheme2026.hotcrp.com/__;!!IBzWLUs!Vb8R5o2NKoyxStsNEbFZ5th3zOgbThgS1fY8Xl6ImCT3_vakTamaUMaz3qxc4ubGfgiIWnbkGIGq0qZCTiveuH-DglkkgjW57yMXaQ$ . 

We welcome the following kinds of submissions.

- Full papers and experience reports: 6-12 pages. Accepted submissions will be included in the proceedings.
- Position papers: 2-4 pages. Authors may choose whether to publish their paper in the proceedings.
- Lightning talks: 1 page. Talk abstracts will not be included in the proceedings.

All submissions should use the new ‘acmart’ format and the two-column ‘sigplan’ 
subformat (not to be confused with the one-column ‘acmsmall’ subformat). 
Please use the anonymous and review options to obscure author information and 
enable line numbers. The page limits do not include references or optional appendices.

Authors are encouraged to publish any code associated to their papers under an 
open source license, so that reviewers may try the code and verify the claims.

Proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

### Lightweight double-blind reviewing

Scheme 2026 will use lightweight double-blind reviewing. Submitted papers must omit 
author names and institutions and reference the authors’ own related work in the third 
person (e.g., not “we build on our previous work…” but rather “we build on the work of…”).

The purpose is to help the reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without 
bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing 
should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job 
of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be 
omitted or anonymized).

### Workshop Organization

Organizing Committee:

Stephen Chang (University of Massachusetts Boston, United States)
Guannan Wei (Tufts University, United States)

Program Committee:

Michael Ballantyne (Washington State University, United States)
Bob Burger (Indigo BioAutomation, United States)
Tianyu Chen (Indiana University, United States)
Youyou Cong (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan)
Ryan Culpepper (University of Massachusetts Boston, United States)
Tony Garnock-Jones (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Kimball Germane (Brigham Young University, United States)
Yukiyoshi Kameyama (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Benoît Montagu (Inria, France)
Cameron Moy (Northeastern University, United States)
Michael Vollmer (University of Kent, United Kingdom)