 Okay now we have our slides back again. So organizing a conference is apparently a lot of work and many, many administrative things are involved like booking conference hotels, negotiating the rates, organizing the food, finding the venue, organizing basically organizing everything around it like sponsoring and so on and so forth. And I would like to thank my team to be honest that did the vast majority of the work. So this is Karina, you will find her on the desk. She basically did I would say 90 percent of the work and the rest supported her where she actually or where we actually could. So please thank them all and whenever you have questions or problems or issues please approach one of these people with the nice orange shirts. I mean you see some of them in the back in case you have questions. People are usually interested in statistics. It's nice that we could essentially stop the a bit the downtrend of TCC participants, right? So basically in 2018 we reached the low with almost 100 participants and now we are back to 136 I think with 16 registrations in the past two days. That you attend this conference is actually very important, right? At the business meeting at the ICR people asked why are all people actually going to other conferences and TCCs going down as your attendance here is very important. We have a very nice program thanks to the awesome work of the program chairs. Dennis and I know the coffee breaks and the lunch will basically provide it will be outside so you find everything there. Regarding your talks please visit or please go to the rump session chair sorry to the to your program chair meet them before and let's try that the technique works better than it did in my case. The rump session you already presented to you. The dinner will be on Tuesday as we said the places actually sold out in case you don't have time to show up please let us know then we can give out the vouchers to to other people that are not able to to get one. We have planned four excursions and most of them were also quickly sold out. One of us will always be there to help you. The first one is the castle so please see Vicky Onger if you have any questions. The second one are the Nurembach Trials this will be with Dominic Doiber and myself. The third one are the rock cut sellers and Karina will help you there. The fourth one is the documentation center and Christoph Egger will actually be the person to contact. So I want to spend just just one minute more about what was Germany actually famous for what what what can you see here. So the map you see here are actually the breweries the breweries that you can see find in Germany and there is Nurembach and as you can see we have the highest densities of breweries so please go around and try the different types of beers. We are also very famous for the Christmas mark that was finished for the first time in 1628. It's usually open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and if you brown want to bring some some presents for your relatives we are very famous also for the for the Liebkuchen basically the gingerbread. And now it's my my my honor to welcome our president who took the time to come here Achim Honegger. Oops I don't want to see my picture. Sorry. So a warm welcome to Erlangen a warm welcome to Nuremberg as a representative of the board of the Friedrich Alexander Universität FIU FIU I warmly welcome you here in the wonderful city of Nuremberg please apologize that I was a few minutes late I was stuck in the traffic because you know the daily commute and in particular on Mondays it's quite hard to get to the city of Nuremberg. So a warm welcome to FIU FIU is a very traditional university here in Germany. We are 276 years old we were founded in 1743 in the city of Erlangen. Margre Friedrich was the founder of our university and in 1961 the business school of Nuremberg was linked to our university and since then we are the Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nuremberg located here in the metropolitan region. The FIU is one out of 10 of the 10 largest universities in Germany. We have 40 000 students here in the metropolitan region. We have more than 14 000 employees at our university including our university hospital and we have around about 600 professors in our system. In terms of organization our university is a full spectrum university covering a wide range of different fields. It's just or it's the it's a full spectrum comprehensive university and there are just two in Germany the University of Bochum and our university and we offer more than 250 bachelors and masters program. So you can imagine that the strength of our university is also cross-disciplinary collaboration and that's also what we stand for and having a full spectrum university and talking about profile of the university that's also quite quite a challenge and we are in terms of innovation power also in a very unique environment. Here in the metropolitan region innovation is something that we have in our genes. We have a lot of larger companies you are familiar with for instance we have the Siemens company here in the metropolitan region Siemens health seniors healthcare the headquarter is just walking distance to my office we have Siemens energy division Siemens industry division all these core businesses of Siemens are here in the metropolitan region we have also the Alidas company you know the sports company they also stand for innovation in their business we have the Puma company we have Schaeffler automobile supplier company more than 100,000 employees and we have strong links between the university and our industry partners here and it turns out that FAU is pretty strong in supporting the innovation process currently we are in terms of patents citations of our basic research results in patents citations of our patents in other patents the usage of our patents patent application success rates and things like that we are number one in Germany so there is no other university that supports the innovation process like we do at FAU and we are Europe wide we are number two listed right after KU Löwen and worldwide we are listed number 14 and this shows to you that the link between basic research and industry is something that we understand and support in a way that is unique if you talk about the region you also have to mention if you are in this wonderful museum here that the first train connection in Germany was here in between the cities of Nuremberg and Ferd Nuremberg and Ferd that's a distance of a few kilometers and the first train connection was built in this area and that's also the reason why the train museum is here located in the city of Nuremberg so mobility is a topic that is in the focus of the regions of the region for many many years other aspects Dominic has already mentioned we have the highest density of micro breweries in the area that's one thing that is quite interesting for visitors and talking about profile of the university our humanities are very much focused on human rights research because here is the cradle of human rights the basic concepts for human rights and the so-called Völkerrecht was the international right or international law the the basic concepts were worked out here at our city of Nuremberg next to our university and you will also visit here the locations where the trials have been after world war after world war two so that's a very historic situation and it's some kind of natural that also our university is taking this unique embedding here putting human rights into its research focus so there is a lot we can offer exciting exciting times you are here to talk about the theory of cryptography one challenging topic in computer science by training I'm also a computer scientist I'm in the field of pattern recognition our computer science department was founded in 1966 it's one of the first computer science departments in in Germany and currently also one of the largest ones in terms of the number of professors and staff members and I'm I'm very happy to host international researchers in this demanding field and I really hope that you enjoy your time here in Nuremberg I hope that you will have exciting discussions scientific discussions but I also hope that you will have some time to experience the wonderful city of Nuremberg and all the things this wonderful city offers to our visitors so take your time enjoy the conference enjoy FAU enjoy Nuremberg all the best and please come back soon thank you very much