Summer Program for 1998:
Coding and Cryptography
July 6-18, 1998
Organizers:
The aim of the workshop is to bring together mathematicians,
computer scientists, and electrical engineers involved in two
disciplines, coding and cryptography, so that the techniques
from one area can be applied to problems in the other area.
One major goal will be to utilize knowledge from coding to construct
good cryptographic schemes.
Both coding theory and cryptography originated with the seminal
work of Claude Shannon in 1948. During and before World War
II, the main applications of cryptography were military. With
the spread of computers and electronic communications after
the war, the use of cryptographic schemes for passwords, banking
transactions and various aspects of computer security proliferated.
So did the uses of error-correcting codes in radio based communication
systems, satellite communications and for high fidelity on CD's.
These uses and the evolving mathematical theory of codes generated
much mathematical activity.
The program consists of three parts and will take place over
a period of two weeks:
Week 1:
Codes, Design, and Cryptography
July 6-10, 1998
Week 2:
Coding, Complexity and Cryptography
and
Sequences
July 13-18, 1998
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