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Scott Rickard (CSI) will supervise a final year Electronic Engineering project entitled ‘The ugliest symphony’ which involves the use of Costas arrays to create really, really ugly music. Costas arrays is one of the research themes at CSI.

Gary McGuire (CSI) was invited to attend the Academy Contact Forum on Coding and Cryptography, organised by The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in Brussels. See: http://cage.ugent.be/~ls/website2007/contactforum2007.html

September 20 2007: Gary McGuire (CSI) was invited to present a paper entitled Some Recent Results on Fourier Transforms of Boolean Functions at the COSIC, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Gerard Murphy (CSI) won the best poster award for his paper entitled "Efficient Implementation of Authenticated Key Establishment in Wireless Sensor Networks", in the IET Irish Signals and System Conference, 13-14 September 2007. The paper was also published in the IET Proceedings of ISSC 2007.

September 09 -10, 2007: Neil Costigan (CSI) was an invited speaker at SHARCS’07 - Special-purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems in Vienna, Austria. The title of his talk was: The Cell processor as a cryptographic engine.

September 6th 2007: Laura Hitt (CSI) was invited to present a paper at the 11th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography 2007 in Dublin Ireland. Her paper was entitled Pairing-friendly Hyperelliptic Curves.

September 6th 2007: Liam Marnane (CSI) was invited to present at the 11th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography 2007 in Dublin Ireland. His paper was entitled Hardware Complexity of Cryptographic Algorithms.

September 5-7 2007: Carl Braken (CSI), Eimear Byrne (CSI), Neil Costigan (CSI), Tom Dowling (CSI), Rod Gow (CSI), Marcus Greferath (CSI), Fernando Hernando (CSI), Laura Hitt (CSI), Nadya Markin (CSI), Anna Johnston (CSI), Gary McGuire (CSI), Cathy McFadden (CSI), Richard Moloney (CSI), Gerard Murphy (CSI), John Sheekey (CSI), Mike Scott (CSI), Vitaly Skachek (CSI) Alan Stears (CSI) and Yejun Zou (CSI) attended the 11th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography 2007 in Dublin Ireland.

Claude Shannon Weekly Group Meetings at UCD

Elliptic Curve Cryptography Wednesday 10.30-12 (Amy Johnston)

Boolean Functions, Tuesday 2-3.30 (Gary McGuire)

LDPC Codes, Wednesday 4-5 (Marcus Greferath)

Costas Arrays, Wednesday 3-4 (Rod Gow)

Network Coding, Thursday 3-4 (Eimear Byrne, Nadya Markin, October start)

Spacetime Codes, variable (Gary McGuire)

On the evening of September 4th CSI will host a Public Lecture on The Ubiquity of Elliptic Curves which is to be given by Professor Joseph Silverman from Brown University. Professor Silverman also serves on the International Advisory Board for CSI.