2nd CfP: REVERSIBLE COMPUTATION 2026 –18th International Conference on Reversible Computation, July 9 –10, 2026, Torino, Italy

Clément Aubert <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:49:27 -0500
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CfP: REVERSIBLE COMPUTATION 2026 –18th International Conference on 
Reversible Computation, July 9–10, 2026, Torino, Italy

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| REVERSIBLE COMPUTATION 2026                             |
| 18th International Conference on Reversible Computation |
| July 9th - July 10th, 2026, Torino, Italy               |
| <https://reversible-computation.github.io/>             |
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Purpose & Scope
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Reversible computation has a growing number of promising application 
areas such as low-power electronics, encoding/decoding, debugging, 
testing and verification, database recovery, discrete event simulation, 
the modeling of biochemical systems, and reversible algorithms, 
specification formalisms, programming languages and process algebras. 
Furthermore, reversible logic provides a basis for quantum computation 
with its applications, for example, in cryptography and in the 
development of highly efficient algorithms. First reversible circuits 
and quantum circuits have been implemented and are seen as promising 
alternatives to conventional CMOS technology.

The 18th edition of the Reversible Computation conference will bring 
together researchers from computer science, mathematics, and physics to 
discuss new developments and directions for future research in 
Reversible Computation, including applications of reversibility to 
quantum computation. Research papers, tutorials, tool demonstrations, 
and work-in-progress reports are within the scope of the conference. 
Contributions on all areas of Reversible Computation are welcome, 
including---but not limited to---the following topics:

- Applications
- Architectures
- Algorithms
- Bidirectional transformations
- Circuit Design
- Debugging
- Fault Tolerance and Error Correction
- Hardware
- Information Theory
- Physical Realizations
- Programming Languages
- Program Transformation and Optimisation
- Quantum Computation
- Software
- Synthesis
- Theoretical Results
- Testing
- Verification


Important dates
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Abstract submission: February 6th, 2026 AOE
Submission deadline: February 13th, 2026 AOE
Notification to authors: April 22nd, 2026 AOE
Final version: May 13th, 2026 AOE
Conference: July 9th - July 10th, 2026


Submission guidelines
=====================

The Reversible Computation conference welcomes the following types of 
submissions:

- full research papers (15 pages maximum, not including references),
- tutorials (15 pages maximum, not including references),
- work-in-progress (6 pages maximum, not including references),
- tool demonstration papers (6 pages maximum, not including references),

to be submitted at <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=rc2026>.

Please do not forget to clearly indicate the type of your submission by 
choosing the proper category on the submission page. Additional material 
intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final 
version---for example, details of proofs---may be placed in a clearly 
marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Reviewers are at 
liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without them.

The paper submission will be accepted as a PDF file using Springer's 
LNCS style 
(<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>).
Authors are encouraged to include their ORCID (<https://orcid.org/>) 
number in the paper.

At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and 
present the paper at the conference. We would appreciate if one person 
would not present more than two papers at the conference: if more than 
two papers are accepted by a group of authors, we kindly ask that the 
papers be presented by different co-authors, as far as possible.

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and 
published by Springer as a LNCS volume.
Proceedings authors will be expected to adhere to Springer's Book 
Authors' Code of Conduct 
(<https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/book-authors-code-of-conduct>).

Invited Talks
==============

Reversible Computation 2026 will feature invited talks by Hannah Earley 
(<https://ha.nnah.io/>) and Prakash Panangaden 
(<https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~prakash/>), titled respectively "Reversing 
the history of computing" and "Quantum Alternation". Abstracts are 
below, and details can be found at 
<https://reversible-computation.github.io/invited/>.

Hannah Earley - Reversing the history of computing
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It is 90 years on from Church and Turing's first publications, changing 
the world as we know it. Unfortunately, gaps in our knowledge of 
physics, thermodynamics, and information have baked in inefficiencies 
alongside these innovations. We are now suffering the consequences. But 
how can we extirpate them, sustainably and one step at a time, without 
overhauling the entirety of our technological infrastructure at once? 
What can we keep? What must we change? What future will this enable? And 
why now?

Prakash Panangaden - Quantum Alternation
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The by now standard paradigm for imperative quantum programming 
languages is based on Selinger's slogan of quantum data and classical 
control.  Crucially conditionals are based on testing Booleans, i.e. 
classical bits.  There have been suggestions that we should "move on" to 
quantum control constructs where the conditional is based on qubits.  My 
former student Costin Badescu and I showed that these are problematic: 
there is no semantics based on the traditional superoperators, the 
constructs are non-compositional and non-monotone.  In this talk I will 
give an account of these problems and what we can do about it.


Programme Committee
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- Clément Aubert (co-chair) (Augusta University)
- Bogdan Aman (Academia Română Filiala Iași)
- Jacques Carette (McMaster University)
- Kostia Chardonnet (INRIA)
- Kamalika Datta (Universität Bremen)
- Alessandra Di Pierro (Università di Verona)
- Stefano Gogioso (University of Oxford)
- Anna Gogolińska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun)
- Robin Kaarsgaard (Syddansk Universitet)
- Jarkko Kari (Turun yliopisto)
- Ivan Lanese (Università di Bologna & INRIA)
- Doriana Medić (Università degli studi di Torino)
- Uwe Meyer (Universität Gießen)
- Torben Mogensen (Københavns Universitet)
- Mathys Rennela
- Neil J. Ross (Dalhousie University)
- Luca Roversi (co-chair) (Università degli studi di Torino)
- Amr Sabry (Indiana University)
- Yasuhiro Takahashi (University of Tsukuba)
- Shoji Yuen (Nagoya daigaku)


Organizing Committee
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- Luca Paolini (chair) (Università degli studi di Torino)
- Doriana Medić (Università degli studi di Torino)
- Mario Bifulco (Università degli studi di Torino)
- Matteo Palazzo (Università degli studi di Torino)
- Luca Roversi (Università degli studi di Torino)


Steering Committee
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- Robert Glück (Københavns Universitet)
- Ivan Lanese (Università di Bologna & INRIA)
- Łukasz Mikulski (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu)
- Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester & AGH University of Science 
and Technology)
- Germán Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de València)


Sponsor & Patronages
====================

Reversible Computation 2026 is under the patronage of the Università 
degli studi di Torino (<https://www.unito.it/>) and its Dipartimento di 
Informatica (<https://informatica.unito.it/do/home.pl>), and is 
sponsored by Vaire (<https://vaire.co/>).

-- 
Clément Aubert, Associate Professor of Computer Science,
School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University,
https://spots.augusta.edu/caubert/
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