The "Mathematical Methods in Computer Science" conference will be held in memory of Thomas Beth. Its scope is defined by the research areas of Thomas Beth. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Coding Theory - Cryptography - Design Theory - Quantum Information - Signal Processing - Symbolic Computation.
SUBMISSIONS =========== Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers (at most 20 pages long) in PDF format using the MMICS`08 submission page, at the EasyChair conference system. Authors are encouraged to use the Springer llncs class files. The necessary style files and instructions can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The submission page for MMICS`08 is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmics08 All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees. A blind review process will be enforced, thus AUTHORS SHOULD NOT REVEAL AUTHORSHIP DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY THROUGH REFERENCES.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ====================== Proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (as a commemorative LNCS Festschrift). They will be available at the conference. Only accepted papers whose authors have registered at the date of receipt of the final version will appear in the proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission: July 20th, 2008 Notification: September 10th, 2008 Final Version: October 13th, 2008
PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Bruno Buchberger, RISC
Linz, Austria Jacques Calmet, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany Reiner Creutzburg, Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Willi Geiselmann, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany Dieter Gollmann, Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain Markus Grassl, Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria Hideki Imai, Research Center for Information
Security, AIST, Japan Dominik Janzing, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany Dieter Jungnickel, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany Andreas Klappenecker, Texas A&M University Wolfgang Mathis, Universitaet Hannover, Germany Joern Mueller-Quade, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany (Program Chair) Harald Niederreiter, National University of Singapore Markus Pueschel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Rainer
Steinwandt, Florida Atlantic University, USA Felix Ulmer, Universite Rennes 1, France Roland Vollmar, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany