Young Researchers Forum 2026

YRF 2025 - https://sites.google.com/view/youngresearchersforum2025/

Young Researchers Forum 2026 is an online event where young researchers (Masters students, PhDs, postdocs) working on PODC/DISC topics stand to benefit in multiple ways including giving talks, interacting with each other, and interacting with more senior researchers. The motivation is that there aren’t many opportunities for young researchers to advertise themselves & their work, especially for the ones who have little funding, have difficulties with visas, or got unlucky with submissions to the standard conferences.

Tentatively September 9th, 2026.
With the possibility of an additional day if needed.

This is a purely online event.

If you're a young researcher (masters students, PhDs, & postdocs), you can participate in one of the following ways: (i) give a talk, (ii) present an open problem for discussion, (iii) meet others. Please fill out the following form by July 31st, 2026 if you would like to participate: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4TJa7VTNDkpqOw3x0L2v8t6FV0V9Qt30EzhW-RwpqNLSDTg/viewform?usp=publish-editor

If you're a senior researcher, you can participate in one of the following ways: (i) give a talk, particularly one where you talk about the journey you’ve undergone as a researcher (especially overcoming research failures) or perhaps how you came to finally solve an interesting problem, (ii) present an open problem for discussion, (iii) hold a career advice session for interested junior researchers (either as a talk or a more interactive smaller session). Please email us by July 31st, 2026 if you'd like to participate in one of those three ways. We are particularly interested in talks of the first type. If you'd like to participate in some different manner, please let us know as we're open to suggestions.

Laurent Feuilloley - CNRS, LIRIS, University of Lyon, France

William K. Moses Jr. - Durham University, UK