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WEEK 1 SCHEDULE
JUNE 13-17, 2005
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. This is our
home page for the two Math weeks of ACCESS, http://www.math.utah.edu/~korevaar/ACCESS2005.
The current schedule is for week one, June 13-17. You'll return for the
fourth week, July 5-8. Meagan McNulty is our ACCESS TA for the entire summer
session, and Sarah Kitchen will be assisting with the two Math weeks. Both
Meagan and Sarah are Math graduate students.
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 13:
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8:30-9:45 a.m.
JTB 120
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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.
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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
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Introduction to the lab: set up accounts, email,
internet; introduction/review to Microsoft Word for word processing. We
will download Monday's notes: MonJune13.doc.
If you want to look at these notes from a non-microsoft
place, try MonJune13.pdf.
We may also experiment with the mathematical software known as Maple, by
playing with the document MapleExpls.mws; (Open MapleExpls.pdf if you want to look but not play.)
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Tuesday June 14:
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8:30-10:15 a.m.
PC-Lab 1735
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An introduction to historical cryptography: Caesar
Shifts and other substitution ciphers, as described in "The Code
Book". Please read chapter 1 (pages 1-44) before class. Simon Singh
will explain why Mary Queen of Scots lost her head, not understanding how
easy it is to break substitution ciphers with frequency analysis. There
will be a cipher for us to solve, and MAPLE will help us. Here is a
directory of today's documents: Tuesdaydocs.
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10:30-noon
JTB 120
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"Cryptography using clock arithmetic," a
lecture and discussion by Professor Jim Carlson of the Math Department.
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Wednesday June 15:
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8:30-10:15 a.m.
JTB 120
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We'll experiment with modular arithmetic, expanding on
the ideas which Jim introduced yesterday. For example, if your substitution
cipher is created using multiplication in modular arithmetic, is there an
easy way to decrypt messages? We will be led to some interesting facts from
number theory. Here are the notes we used: WedJune15.doc,
WedJune15.pdf
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10:30-noon
JTB 120
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"RSA cryptography and internet security",
lecture and discussion by Jim Carlson. To prep for Jim's talk, you may want
to read chapters 6-7 of "The Code Book". Starting tomorrow we'll
also need Tom Davis' notes on Cryptography,
and the original paper on RSA systems, by Rivest,
Shamir, Adelman.)
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Thursday June 16:
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PC-Lab 1735
8:30-10:15
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RSA encryption; You will want to become very familiar
with the Maple code for setting up RSA systems. The file RSA.mws has some commands missing so you can
practice easy Maple syntax (and discover the most common mistakes). The
files RSAverbose.mws and RSAverbose.pdf are complete. Of course, the .pdf version is only for viewing or printing out; only
the .mws file can be opened from Maple. We also
looked at the picture version of secure signature RSA cryptography, with
cute Alice and Bob, alicebob.pdf
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10:30-noon
JTB 120
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"Genetic Codes," lecture by Biology Professor Jon Seger.
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12:15-3:15
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University Orientation, in the large conference room of
the Sill Center.
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Friday June 17:
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8:00-9:00 a.m.
Women's Resource Center
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"Safety and survival" - go to southeast end of
main floor of the Union
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9:10-noon
PC-Lab 1735
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Project work in the MARRIOTT computer lab. Here's what
you've got to do: assignment1.pdf
Here are your public keys:keys.doc
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12:30 p.m. -
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Honor's Center,
Fort Douglas
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Honor's Program advising session
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