Contributing

(Deadline to submit: February 16th 2026)

A special session can be organized by 1-3 organizers and should focus on a well-defined topic related to the scope of the conference. Each special session should consist of 3-4 talks by experts on the topic of the session, and at most one organizer should give a talk in their own special session. At most two special sessions can be organized by the same organizer/s on one topic. Proposals for special sessions should be submitted by the deadline. 

The proposal only requires a summary of the special session’s topic. Abstracts for talks in a special session are required only after the session is accepted.

Please note that as a general rule, each conference participant should give at most one talk. Plenary and tutorial speakers, in addition to their plenary talk or tutorial, can give one additional talk.

Special session proposal submission form

(Deadline to submit: February 23rd, 2026)

A contributed talk pertaining to the scope of the MCQMC conference can be given by any registered participant who is not already giving a talk in a special session. Abstracts for contributed talks should be submitted by the deadline. 

Please note that as a general rule, each conference participant should give at most one talk. Plenary and tutorial speakers, in addition to their plenary talk or tutorial, can give one additional talk.

Contributed talk submission form

(Deadline to submit: November 30th 2026)

Following the tradition of the MCQMC conference series, a selection of strictly refereed papers will be published after the conference as a Springer book. Every speaker is welcome to submit a paper based on their talk, with the length strictly not exceeding 16 pages in the Springer style. Plenary and tutorial speakers are invited to submit papers of at most 30 pages length. The papers of plenary and tutorial speakers can be survey articles.