Seminars

Title: Rank Problems for Subspaces of Symmetric or Hermitian Matrices Over Finite Fields
Speaker: Rod Gow (UCD)
Date: Mon 18th October 2010
Time: 4:00PM
Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room
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UCD School of Mathematical Sciences - Seminar Notice
Title: New Results on Kloosterman Sums Modulo p^e
Speaker: Faruk Gologlu (UCD)
Date: Mon 27th September 2010
Time: 4:00PM
Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room
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Title: Soft Errors and Memories: Reliability Models and Applications
Speaker: Prof. Pedro Reviriego (formerly of Massana)
Date & Time: Thursday 26th August at 6:00 pm
Location: Room 326, UCD Engineering and Materials Science Centre

Claude Shannon Institute Seminar Notice
Title: Generalized BCH theorem and linear recursive MDS codes
Speaker: Alexandr Nechaev (Moscov State University)
Date & Time: Friday August 27th at 14:00
Location: Seminar Room, UCD CASL
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Title: Soft Errors and Memories: Reliability Models and Applications
Speaker: Prof. Pedro Reviriego (formerly of Massana)
Date & Time: Thursday 26th August at 6:00 pm
Location: Room 326, UCD Engineering and Materials Science Centre

UCD School of Mathematical Sciences - Seminar Notice
Title: On a class of bent functions
Speaker: Petr Lisonek (Simon Fraser University)
Date: Wed 16th June 2010
Time: 12:00PM
Location: Health Sciences A004

We look at the class of monomial and multinomial bent functions on GF(p^(2m)) for which each exponent in their trace representation is divisible by p^m-1. The study of these functions was initiated by Dillon's discovery of the monomial binary case in 1976. This is a distinguished class of bent functions that exhibit some properties desired in cryptographic applications (such as a high algebraic degree). We study both the binary case and the general odd characteristic case. The results are theoretical (constructions,
characterizations, necessary conditions) as well as algorithmic (polynomial time certification of bentness). The mathematical tools involve exponential sums (in particular Kloosterman sums), elliptic and hyperelliptic curves and spreads of $m$-dimensional subspaces of GF(p)^(2m). Read more

Claude Shannon Institute Seminar
Title: Side-channel attack resisting hardware implementations of the AES
Speaker: Svetla Nikova (KULeuven and UTwente)
Date & Time: Tuesday 11 May at 12 noon
Location: Seminar Room, UCD CASL
All welcome, and all welcome to join us for lunch afterwards.
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Title: On the distribution of the number of points on algebraic curves in extensions of finite fields
Speaker: Omran Ahmadi (UCD/CSI)
Date: Wed 7th April 2010
Time: 4:00PM
Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room