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June 22-30: Nigel Boston (CSI) visited the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI for collaborations with mathematicians (Jordan Ellenberg, Harris Nover), engineers (Bob Barmish, Yu Hen Hu, Rob Nowak, Bill Sethares, WiSeNet group), and computer scientists (Chuck Dyer).

Title: Finite congruence-simple semirings and their applications to cryptography
Speaker: Jens Zumbrägel
Date: June 22 2009
Conference: 2nd Mile High Conference on Nonassociative Mathematics in Denver, Colorado USA

Gary McGuire was on the PhD jury at University of Paris 6 for Yann Laigle-Chapuy (June 19, 2009).

Conference Paper Presented:
Title: Refined Bounds for Ring-Linear Codes
Authors: E. Byrne (CSI), M. Greferath (CSI), A. Kohnert, V. Skachek (CSI).
Eimear Byrne presented the paper.
Conference: Sixth International Conference on Optimal Codes and Related
Structures (OC2009), held in Varna, Bulgaria, June 16-22.
This paper also appeared in the conference proceedings.

The following positions are currently available at the Claude Shannon Institute
see: http://www.shannoninstitute.ie/positions.htm

Gary McGuire (CSI) gave a short course of 4 lectures on Coding Theory at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght (June 16, 2009).

June 8-11: Nigel Boston (CSI) attended a Conference on Fonctions L et Arithmetique in Besancon, France.

June 10th 2009: Cathy McFadden (CSI) attended a conference on "Understanding the Financial Crisis: Did Mathematical Models Fail?"

Title: p-extensions unramified at p
Speaker: Nigel Boston (CSI)
Date: June 8 & 9 2009
Conference: Conference on Fonctions L et Arithmetique. Besancon, France.
Series of three talks.

June 3-5 2009: Nigel Boston (CSI) attended a Conference in honour of Marty Isaacs. Valencia, Spain