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CURRENT RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES:
Pending Renewal of Funding
Summer 2011
Mathematical Cryptology
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Six or more talented undergraduate students will be chosen to engage in the study of Mathematical Cryptology. Participants will be mentored by Dr. Chris Christensen from Northern Kentucky University, Dr. Jintai Ding of the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Dieter Schmidt from the University of Cincinnati (emeritus professor), a graduate student from the University of Cincinnati, and a participant from the 2010 REU. Participants will be involved in attacking unsolved problems in mathematical cryptology.
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Participants will be provided with housing and meals on the Northern Kentucky University campus, which is located in Greater Cincinnati. The program will provide a stipend and travel support to and from the NKU campus. Partial support to participate in a conference to present results is possible.
If funding is renewed, selection of participants will begin February 6, 2011.
.For more information contact:
Chris Christensen
Department of Mathematics
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099
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Application Form The 2011 REU will occur if funding is renewed.
The 2008, 2009, and 2010 REUs in Mathematical Cryptology were sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Funding for those REUs came from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The Computational Algebra Group within the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Sydney is supplied the computer algebra system MAGMA for the REUs.