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Marek Karpinskiat the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Excellence Cluster is a
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
and mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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known for his research in the theory of algorithm
In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific Computational problem, problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are used as specificat ...
s and their applications, combinatorial optimization
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, computational complexity
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, and mathematical foundations. He is a recipient of several research prizes in the above areas.
He is currently a Professor of Computer Science, and the Head of the Algorithms Group at the University of Bonn
The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...
. He is also a member of Bonn International Graduate School in MathematicBIGS
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See also
*List of computer scientists
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* List of mathematicians
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