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June 27-29 2007: Mike Scott was an invited speaker at the Workshop on Pairing Based Cryptography in Brisbane Australia.
See: http://www.isi.qut.edu.au/events/workshops/iceem2007/program/

June 25-29 2007: Fun with Mathematics Summer Camp for 2nd year secondary students. Tom Dowling (CSI/NUIM).

June 24-30 2007: Vitaly Skachek (CSI) attended the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT’07) in Nice, France.

June 18-19 2007: Gary McGuire (CSI) was an invited speaker at the International Workshop on Hadamard and Cocyclic Matrices and Applications in Seville, Spain.Presentation was entitled: On Cocyclic Hadamard Matrices from Finite Frobenius Rings.
See: http://ma1.eii.us.es/miembros/valvarez/iwhcma/iwhcma.htm

June 10-12 2007: Mike Scott (CSI) presented a paper Optimal Irreducible Polynomials for GF(2m) Arithmetic at the SPEED -Software Performance Enhancement for Encryption and Decryption- workshop in Amsterdam.
See: http://www.hyperelliptic.org/SPEED/

June 10-12 2007: Neil Costigan (CSI) and Mike Scott (CSI) presented a paper entitled Accelerating SSL using the Vector processors in IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine for Sony’s Playstation 3 at the SPEED -Software Performance Enhancement for Encryption and Decryption- workshop in Amsterdam. A preprint of the paper is available on ePrint at http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/061

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

Gary McGuire, Anna Johnston and Elva O’Sullivan attend this year’s Polskie Radio Science Picnic in Warsaw on May 26th 2007. The Picnic is an outdoor science fair which is held in Warsaw every year and is very popular with the public (crowds of up to 100,000 attend the event). Universities, international schools, companies, institutes and embassies take part with the emphasis being on family-friendly exhibits rather than trade displays. The theme of this year’s picnic was “Mathematics and Us”. Ireland (The Irish Embassy, CSI and U of L) had a tent in the “European Village“. The Village was intended to highlight Europe as a location for science innovation and technology. CSI ran a cryptography competition for parents, kids and families. First they had to build their own CAESAR Cipher and then once they had made it, they had to break different codes. All code breakers won a gold shamrock. The activity proved extremely popular.

May 21 2007: Mike Scott (DCU/CSI) made a presentation on the topic Identity Based Encryption to the Disruption Tolerant Networking Research Group meeting in Trinity College Dublin. (See: http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/misc/DubAgenda.html for details).

The Boole Centre in Cork hosted the CSI Quaterly Meeting on May 21. A strategy meeting was also conducted about the structure and coursework to be offered in the CSI Ph.D programme. The Boole Centre hosted the joint Claude Shannon Institute-Boole Centre Workshop on Coding and Cryptography on May 21 and 22. Talks from CSI people are listed below. The schedule and the abstracts for this meeting can be found at the following links:
Schedule: http://www.bcri.ucc.ie/schedule07.pdf
Abstracts: http://www.bcri.ucc.ie/abstracts&titles07.pdf