Topics

The topics focus on the ERCIM institutes' scientific fields of competence.

The categories used for the informatics part of the ERCIM table of competences are the top two levels of the internationally accepted ACM Computing Classification System [1998 Version].

For details, see http://www.ercim.eu/activity/expertise

Computer Applications

Administrative Data Processing
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Life and Medical Science
Social and Behavioral Science
Arts and Humanities
Computer-Aided Engineering
Computers in other Systems

Computer Systems Organization

Processor Architectures
Computer Communication Networks
Special-Purpose and Application-Based Systems
Performance of Systems
Computer System Implementation

Computing Methodologies

Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Graphics
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition
Simulation and Modeling
Document and Text Processing

Computing Milieux

Computer Industry
History of Computing
Computers and Education
Computers and Society
Legal Aspects of Computing
Management of Computing and Information Systems
The Computing Profession
Personal Computing

Data

Data Structures
Data Storage Representations
Data Encryption
Coding and Information Theory
Files

Hardware

Control Structures and Microprogramming
Arithmetic and Logic Structures
Memory Structures
Input/Output and Data Communications
Register-Transfer-Level Implementaion
Logic Design
Integrated Circuit
Performance and Reliability

Information Systems

Models and Principals
Database Management
Information Storage and Retrieval
Information Systems Applications
Information Interfaces and Presentation

Mathematics

General
History and biography
Mathematical logic and foundations
Combinatorics
Order, lattices, ordered algebraic structures
General algebraic systems
Number theory
Algebra
Real functions
Measure and integration
Functions of a complex variable
Potential theory
Several complex variables and analytic spaces
Special functions
Ordinary differential equations
Partial differential equations
Dynamical systems and ergodic theory
Difference and functional equations
Sequences, series, summability
Approximations and expansions
Fourier analysis
Abstract harmonic analysis
Integral transforms, operational calculus
Integral equations
Functional analysis
Operator theory
Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization
Geometry
Convex and discrete geometry
Differential geometry
General topology
Algebraic topology
Manifolds and cell complexes
Global analysis, analysis on manifolds
Probability theory and stochastic processes
Statistics
Numerical analysis
Mathematical Physics
Operations research, mathematical programming
Game theory, economics, social and behavioral sciences
Biology and other natural sciences
Systems theory; control
Information and communication, circuits
Mathematics education

Mathematics of Computing

Numerical Analysis
Discrete Mathematics
Probability and Statistics
Mathematical Software

Software

Programming Techniques
Software Engineering
Programming Languages
Operating Systems

Theory of Computation

Computation by Abstract Devices
Analysis of Algorithms and Problem Complexity
Logics and Meaning of Programs
Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

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