ACCESS-UGS 1430
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 Math Department |
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Nick Korevaar
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JUNE 17-21, 2002
Hi! I'm Professor Nick Korevaar. My office is LCB 204, my phone number is 581-7318, and my email address is korevaar@math.utah.edu You can find ACCESS information (like these notes), by following links from my home page, at http://www.math.utah.edu/~korevaar
The math portion of ACCESS is the first week, June 17-21, and the fourth week, July 8-12. Emina Alibegovic and I will be your teachers for these two weeks (along with several guest lecturers), and Kandice Nielson will be the TA for the entire summer course.
Our theme for the first week will be codes and cryptography. Our planned schedule is below, although it could change as the week progresses.
Monday June 17:
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8:30-9:45 a.m.
JTB 120 |
Introductions, and the forming of study groups. Sid Rudolph and Irene Cervantes will be there to get us started, and Sid will challenge us with a math problem. |
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9:45-10:15 a.m. |
We will walk to the Union to get pictures taken for your University I.D.'s, and then over to Marriott Library and PC-Lab 1735. If you want to explore the rest of campus from your computer, use the interactive campus map. |
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10:15-noon PC-Lab 1735 |
Introduction to the lab: set up accounts, email, internet; introduction/review to Microsoft Word for word processing. We will download Monday's notes. |
Tuesday June 18:
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8:30-10:15 a.m. LCB 115 |
An introduction to historical cryptography: Caesar Shifts, substitution cyphers and the Vigenere cypher, as described in "The Code Book". We will meet in JTB 120, walk to the Math computer lab, and learn about MAPLE and how it can help us decode messages. Maple Examples.pdf (view on your computer); Maple Examples.mws (save and open from Maple). Emina's ACCESS page also has a Maple worksheet for you. |
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10:30-noon JTB 120 |
"Cryptography: From Julius Caesar to World War II," a lecture and discussion by Professor Jim Carlson of the Math Department. |
Wednesday June 19:
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8:30-10:15 a.m. JTB 120 |
We'll walk from JTB 120 back to the math lab in LCB 115, so that you can do the frequency analysis for the coded messages which (hopefully) your neighboring group has sent to you. Then we'll experiment with modular arithmetic and the Euclidean algorithm, to get ready for Jim's talk on RSA public key cryptography. (See chapters 6-7 of "The Code Book", Tom Davis' notes on Cryptography, and the original paper by Rivest, Shamir, Adelman.) |
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10:30-noon JTB 120 |
"RSA cryptography and internet security", lecture and discussion by Jim Carlson. After Jim's talk, at noon, we will prove that there is such a thing as a free lunch - we'll go eat with the students in the high school math summer program, in the plaza between LCB and JWB. |
Thursday June 20:
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8:30-10:15 a.m. South Physics 205 |
RSA codes; your project assignment.pdf. for this week. The Math computer lab is unavailable, so after meeting in JTB 120 we will walk over to the Physics lab instead! You will want to become very familiar with the Maple code for setting up RSA codes, RSA.mws, RSA.pdf |
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10:30-noon JTB 120 |
"Genetic Codes," lecture by Biology Professor Jon Seger. |
Friday June 21:
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8:30-noon PC-Lab 1735 |
Project work in the MARRIOTT computer lab. NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION. Starting immediately there is Maple available on Marriott pc's. Meet at at the PC-Lab. |
publickeys.txt maple text (open from word processor)
publickeys.pdf (look at on browser)