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 

• Cryptography and security

• Databases and information retrieval

• Data compression

• Data privacy

• Distributed and parallel computing 

• Game theory and mechanism design

• Machine learning 

• Quantum computing