Monday, May 11, 2026

Northwestern University

The Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR) is a premier venue for the Chicago and Midwest systems research community. The workshop's goal is to promote awareness, collaboration, and synergy among academic and corporate systems researchers in the region. The workshop includes major participation from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, DePaul University, the University of Illinois Chicago, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University Chicago, Northern Illinois University, and Argonne National Laboratory. Its participants represent a variety of sub-areas of systems, broadly construed, including operating systems, distributed computing, systems for machine learning, high performance computing, computer architecture, networks, databases, and security.

The meeting will be held in Northwestern's Evanston Campus, in the Norris University Center at Northwestern.

Important Dates

Friday, April 17, 2026

Poster Abstract Submission Deadline

Monday, April 27, 2026

Poster Notification

Friday, May 1, 2026

Early Registration Deadline

Monday, May 11, 2026

Workshop