Indo-German Max Planck Center for Computer Science

Algorithms are the focus at the new Max Planck Center. With their help, scientists can, for example, quickly and reliably identify large prime numbers. These play an important role in cryptography, which is also used to encode on-line transactions by credit card, among other things.

Under the umbrella of the Center, which was officially opened in January 2010, there are currently ten German-Indian research groups.