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This conference is generously funded by the NSA.

Speakers:

• Speaker: Professor Carl Pomerance, Univ. Georgia
  Time/place: 1:00-1:50 pm, Sunday Oct 25, Ch 116
  Title: Probability and Factoring
• Speaker: Bill Wardlaw, USNA,
  Time/place: 2:00-2:35 pm, Sunday Oct 25, Ch 116
  Title: The RSA Public Key Cipher Algorithm
• Speaker: Samuel J. Lomonaco, Jr., UMBC Computer Science and Engineering,
  Time/place: 2:45-3:20 pm, Sunday Oct 25, Ch 116
  Title: Quantum Cryptographic Protocols or How Alice and Bob Outwit Eve
• Speaker: T.S. Michael, USNA,
  Time/place: 3:30-4:05 pm, Sunday Oct 25, Ch 116
  Title: Pranks by Design
• Speaker: A. Shokrollahi, Bell Labs,
  Time/place: 4:15-4:50, Sunday Oct 25, Ch 116
  Title: List Decoding of Algebraic-Geometric Codes
• Speaker: Dr. Neil J. A. Sloane, AT&T Shannon Labs
  Time/place: 5:00-5:50 pm, Sunday Oct 25, Ch 116
  Title: Codes and Sphere Packings
• Speaker: Dr Charles Osgood, NSA
  Time/place: 12:00-1:00, Monday Oct 26, Ch 216
  Title: A briefing on NSA grants
• Speaker: Dr David Hatch, NSA Museum,
  Time/place: 3:45-4:45pm, Monday Oct 26, Ch 216
  Title: Enigma and Purple: How the allies exploited enemy communications in WWII
• Speaker: Professor Peter Hilton, SUNY, Binghamton and Univ. of Central Florida
  Time/place: 7-8pm, Monday Oct 26, Ch 216
  Title: Breaking high grade German ciphers in WWII; working with Alan Turing

There are plans for a dinner with the speakers Sunday night, October 25th. Dinner with Peter Hilton on Monday night. Time and place to be announced. (Tentatively, Buddy's Crabs and Ribs Sunday and Cafe Normadie Monday in Annapolis, around 6pm Sunday and 5:30pm on Monday.)

Last updated 10-20-98