The faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science is one of the ten faculties of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg located at Würzburg, the capital of Lower Franconia in the north of Bavaria. Within the faculty, there are three institutes: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Computer Science. Seven autonomous departments (in German Lehrstühle) constitute the Institute of Computer Science covering a broad spectrum of computer science areas of research:

• Information Structures and Knowledge Based Systems
• Programming Languages and Software Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• Theoretical Computer Science
• VLSI Design
• Articial Intelligence and Applied Computer Science
• Robotics and Sensorics