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NUIM-Zhejiang University Software Engineering Summer School for final year undergraduate students. Tom Dowling (CSI)

Weekly Group Meetings were held in UCD in the areas of Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Space Time Codes, Costas Arrays, Boolean Functions and LDPC Codes.

Weekly Times:
Costas Arrays: Mondays 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Boolean Functions: Tuesdays 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Elliptic Curve Cryptography: Wednesdays 10.30-12:00 pm
LDPC Codes: Wednesdays 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Space Time Codes: Thursdays; 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Weekly Group Meetings were held in UCD in the areas of Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Space Time Codes, Costas Arrays, Boolean Functions and LDPC Codes.

Weekly Times:
Costas Arrays: Mondays 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Boolean Functions: Tuesdays 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Elliptic Curve Cryptography: Wednesdays 10.30-12:00 pm
LDPC Codes: Wednesdays 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Space Time Codes: Thursdays; 2:00 – 4:00 pm

On July 18 Vitaly Skachek gave a report on the 2007 ISIT Symposium in Information Theory, held in Nice.

On July 26 Gary McGuire gave a report on the IT Workshop 2007 in Bergen.

Full Mental Jacket- Going to War with Numbers: Class and lab sessions, NUIM access program Tom Dowling (CSI/NUIM)

July 9-12 2007: Mark Flanagan (CSI) assisted in the Irish Mathematical Olympiad training camp, University of Limerick.

July 9-13 2007: Gary McGuire (CSI) presented a paper entitled Order Dividing ExtensionFields and the Root Computation Problem at the Finite Fields and Applications Conference in Melbourne (Fq8) on behalf of Anna Johnston (CSI).

July 9-13 2007: Gary McGuire (CSI) presented a paper entitled On the Degree of the Dual of the Kasami-Welch Bent Function at the Eighth Finite Fields and their Applications Conference (Fq8) in Melbourne, Australia. See: http://www.deakin.edu.au/scitech/eit/fq8/

July 2 - 4 2007: Mike Scott (CSI) was an invited speaker at the 1st International Conference in Pairings held in Tokyo, Japan. The proceedings (Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4575) contain the following papers:

Title: Implementing Cryptographic pairings. Mike Scott (CSI) (Invited talk)

Title: Implementing Cryptographic pairings over Barreto-Naehrig Curves
Augusto Jun Devegili, Mike Scott (CSI) and Ricardo Dahab

Title: The importance of the final exponentiation in Pairings when considering Fault Attacks. Claire Whelan and Mike Scott (CSI)

July 1-6 2007: Gary McGuire (CSI) attended the Information Theory Workshop in Bergen, Norway. See: http://itw2007.org/

The 9th International Conference on Finite Fields and their Applications (Fq9) will be held in Dublin in 2009, and hosted by the Claude Shannon Institute.