WAIFI 2026 - NEW DEADLINES + CALL FOR POSTERS

Dear colleagues,

(apologies for multiple postings)

Important dates:

Before the regular paper submission deadline, authors must submit the title, abstract, and keywords of their contribution.
As abstracts will be reviewed under a double-blind process, only this information will be required.

Abstract submission deadline: March 8th, 2026
Submission deadline (EXTENDED): March 15th (23:59 AoE), 2026
Acceptance notification: April 7th, 2026
Final version due: April 16th, 2026
Poster submission deadline: April 30th, 2026

Call for Posters:

We invite participants to submit posters with recent results, work in progress, or new ideas within the scope of WAIFI 2026. 
Please submit a short abstract with title, authors, affiliations, and a brief description through the submission system. 
Deadline is April 30th, 2026. 
We will use the number of submissions by early May to plan the session. 
Authors should be present at their poster during the session.

More information (including the submission system) will be posted on the workshop website.

The “International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields (WAIFI) 2026”, to be held in Santander, Spain, June 3-5, 2026, is a forum of mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and physicists performing research on finite field arithmetic, interested in communicating the advances in the theory, applications, and implementations of finite fields. The workshop helps to bridge the gap between the mathematical theory of finite fields and their hardware/software implementations and technical applications, especially in cryptography and coding theory.

The topics of WAIFI 2026 include but are not limited to:

Theory of finite field arithmetic including:
Bases (canonical; normal; dual; etc.)
Polynomials (irreducible; primitive; permutation)
Boolean functions and special functions over finite fields
Algebraic curves over finite fields
Dynamical systems over finite fields
Hardware & Software implementations:
Design & implementation of finite field processors
Design & implementation of arithmetic for crypto algorithms and protocols
Pseudorandom number generators
Hardware/Software co-design in crypto and coding theory applications
Applications of finite fields in:
Cryptography such as Post Quantum Crypto and other algorithms and protocols
Coding theory (AG codes; LDPC codes; etc.)
Combinatorics (designs; arrays; etc.)
Finite geometry
General Chair:

Domingo Gómez Pérez, University of Cantabria, Spain

Program co-Chairs:

Lejla Batina, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Ferruh Ozbudak, Sabancı University, Türkiye

Program Committee: 
Herivelto Martins Borges Filho, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Claude Carlet, Universities of Paris VIII (France) and Bergen (Norway)
Maria Corte-Real Santos, ENS Lyon, France
Thomas Decru, KU Leuven, Belgium
Sylvain Duquesne, U. Rennes, France
Ana Isabel Gómez Pérez, U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Sophie Huczynska, U. St. Andrews, Scotland
José Luis Imaña, U. Complutense Madrid, Spain
Jorge Jiménez Urroz, U. Politécnica Madrid, Spain
Angshuman Karmakar, IIT Kanpur, India
Gohar Kyureghyan, U. Rostock, Germany
Edgar Martínez Moro, U. Valladolid, Spain
Sihem Mesnager, U. Paris VIII, France
Alessandro Neri, U. Naples Federico II, Italy
Svetla Nikova, KU Leuven, Belgium
Daniel Panario, Carleton University, Canada
Hilder Vitor Lima Pereira, Unicamp, Brazil
Håvard Raddum, Simula UiB, Norway
Francisco Rodríguez Henríquez, TII, UAE
Ana Salagean, U. Loughborough, UK
Amin Sakzad, Monash U., Australia
David Thomson, Carleton U., Canada
Alev Topuzoğlu, Sabancı U., Türkiye
Monika Trimoska, TU/e, The Netherlands
Qiang (Steven) Wang, Carleton U., Canada
Violetta Weger, Technical U. Munich, Germany
Nusa Zidaric, U. Leiden, The Netherlands

The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

The workshop website http://www.waifi.org <http://www.waifi.org/>, will be updated regularly with more information.

Kind regards,

José L. Imaña
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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