Themes and application areas include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Aspects of combinatorics and discrete mathematics, such as:
• Combinatorial structures 
• Discrete optimization 
• Discrete probability 
• Finite metric spaces 
• Graph theory 
• Mathematical programming 
• Random structures 
• Topological problems

Core topics in discrete algorithms, such as:
• Algorithm analysis
• Data structures 
• Experimental algorithmics

Algorithmic aspects of other areas of computer science, such as:
• Combinatorial scientific computing 
• Communication networks and the Internet 
• Computational geometry and topology
• Computer graphics and computer vision 
• Computer systems 
• Data compression
• Cryptography and security
• Databases and information retrieval 
• Distributed and parallel computing 
• Game theory and mechanism design
• Machine learning 
• Quantum computing