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focs-review-process
Use when reasoning about how a FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) submission is evaluated — the TCMF-sponsored program committee, subreferee delegation, double-blind norms the venue adopted years before STOC, the summer decision arc, and what each outcome means for a theory paper.
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# FOCS Review Process
FOCS reviewing is run by a program committee assembled per edition under IEEE
Computer Society TCMF sponsorship — for FOCS 2026, chaired by Sanjeev Khanna
(CFP checked 2026-07-08). There is no standing editorial board and no
multi-year continuity of policy: each cycle's CFP is the constitution, and
each PC interprets it once. This skill models the pipeline so authors can
predict it rather than be surprised by it.
## Pipeline anatomy (April → summer, 2026 cycle)
| Stage | Who | What actually happens |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | PC chair + conflict data | Papers matched to 2–4 PC members using HotCRP topics and your conflict declarations — errors here trace back to sloppy metadata |