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September 15-19 2008: Tom Dowling (CSI) attended the ENISA-FORTH Summer School the 1st Network and Information Security (NIS), in Crete, Greece.

September 15 -19 2008: Richard Moloney (CSI) attended the DIAMANT-Summer School on Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Six new post-graduate students and three new post-docs have joined the Claude Shannon Institute.

David Conti (UCD) began his doctoral studies at CSI. His supervisor is Nigel Boston and he is located at University College Dublin.

Mark Hamilton (UCC) began his doctoral studies at CSI. His supervisor is Liam Marnane and he is located at University College Dublin.

Danny Lynch (UCD) began his doctoral studies at CSI. His supervisor is Rod Gow and he is located at University College Dublin.

Vijaykumar Singh (UCD) began his doctoral studies at CSI. His supervisor is Gary McGuire and he is located at University College Dublin.

Alison Sneyd (UCD) began her doctoral studies at CSI. Her supervisor is Eimear Byrne and he is located at University College Dublin.

Geoffrey Walsh (UCD) began his doctoral studies at CSI. His supervisor is Eimear Byrne and he is located at University College Dublin.

Omran Ahmadi (UCD) is working as a post-doc at CSI. His supervisor is Gary McGuire and he is located at University College Dublin.

Alexey Zaytsev (UCD) is working as a post-doc at CSI. His supervisor is Gary McGuire and he is located at University College Dublin.

Effective October 2008 Rob Granger (DCU) will be working as a post-doc at CSI. His supervisor is Mike Scott and he is located at Dublin City University.

September 1-5, 2008: Vitaly Skachek (CSI) attended the 5th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Related Topics in Lausanne, Switzerland.

September 1-3 2008: Luis Dominguez (CSI), Ezekiel Kachisa (CSI) and
Mike Scott (CSI) attended the second International Conference on Pairing-based Cryptography (Pairing 2008) held at Royal Holloway, University of London in UK.

August 29 2008: Leading international researcher Professor Nigel Boston joins the Claude Shannon Institute, the UCD Complex and Adaptive Systems
Laboratory (CASL) and UCD School of Mathematical Sciences under the SFI
Stokes Programme. Professor Boston was previously located at the University of Wisconsin where he held joint appointments in Mathematics and in Electrical and Computer Engineering. While at the University of Wisconsin, Professor Boston worked in the areas of pure algebra and number theory, related to the famous proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, and he also collaborated with engineers and computer scientists on novel applications of algebra in areas such as automated face recognition and sensor networks. "I will continue this work at UCD by building an
international program in number theory and pursuing interdisciplinary
collaborations through the Claude Shannon Institute and CASL," says Professor Boston. Click here to read the abstract

September 1 2008: Vitaly Skachek (CSI) visited the University of Zurich for research discussions with Felice Manganiello, Elisa Gorla and Joachim Rosenthal.

Title: Topics from Network Security”
Location: NUIM-Zhejiang University Software Engineering Summer School.
Dates: August 5th –August 8th 2008

Title: Information Security for Financial Organizations
Location: DIT Graduate Management Information Systems program
Dates: August 26th-August 29th 2008

Dr. Vitaly Skachek (CSI) was awarded €1800 to attended the 5th International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics by the Seed Funding Committee at University College Dublin UCD.

August 19-22 2008: Rod Gow (CSI) was co-organizer of a conference at NUI Maynooth, entitled "Duality theory and involutions in representation theory”.
There were about 40 people in attendance, from countries such as Germany, Spain, UK, USA, Romania and Japan.