Scientific Focus

• IT-Security: cryptography and steganography
  secure protocols for multi-party computations, private computations, steganography, steganalysis, data hiding, interactive proof systems, Arthur-Merlin games, quantum computation and quantum cryptography
• Efficient algorithms and parallel processing
  graph algorithms, series-parallel graphs, image matching, combinatorial pattern mtching, network algorithms
• Causality
  algorithmic and computational complexity aspects of causality theory, identification and estimation of causal effects, graphical models for causal reasoning
• Computational and structural complexity
  alternating hierarchy, lower bounds for specific problems, sublogarithmic space complexity classes, counting classes
• Bioinformatics and algorithmic learning
  Modeling and analysis of selection strategies of immune systems, Artificial Immune Systems, computational immunology, consensus patterns, sequenece analysis, compressing DNA sequences
• Parallel algorithms
  scheduling dynamic process graphs, transmission networks, sorting networks