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

1. Aspects of Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics, such as:
2. Algebra
3. Combinatorial Structures
4. Discrete Optimization
5. Discrete Probability
6. Finite Metric Spaces
7. Graph Theory
8. Mathematical Programming
9. Number Theory
10. Random Structures
11. Topological Problems
12. Aspects of Computer Science, such as:
13. Algorithm Analysis and Complexity
14. Algorithmic Game Theory
15. Algorithmic Mechanism Design
16. Combinatorial Scientific Computing
17. Communication Networks and the Internet
18. Computational Geometry & Topology
19. Computer Graphics and Computer Vision
20. Computer Systems
21. Cryptography and Computer Security
22. Data Compression
23. Data Structures
24. Databases and Information Retrieval
25. Distributed and Parallel Computing
26. Experimental Algorithmics
27. Machine Learning
28. Quantum Computing
29. Robotics
30. Symbolic Computation
31. Applications in the Sciences and Business such as:
32. Bioinformatics
33. Economics
34. Finance
35. Manufacturing
36. Physics
37. Sociology