Igor Shparlinski

Professor	Member of Centre for Advanced Computing - Algorithms and Cryptography

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Education

• M.S. in Mathematics, 1977; Moscow State Pedagogical Institute
• Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1980; Moscow State Pedagogical Institute

Awards

• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, 2006
• Australian Professorial Fellow, 2004.
• Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society, 2000.
• Richard Miller Visiting Scholar in Mathematics (University of Missouri), 1999.
• Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society, 1996.
• Humboldt Professorship, DFG, Germany, 1996.

Areas of Interest

• Cryptography
• Number Theory
• Theoretical Computer Science
• Quantum Computation

Current Research

• Algebraic and Number Theoretic Methods in Cryptography
• Computation and Algorithms in Finite Fields
• Exponential Sums
• Recurrence Sequences
• Pseudo Random Number Generators
• Quantum Computation

Editorial Duties

• J. of the Australian Mathematical Society (Aust. Math. Soc.);
• Finite Fields and their Applications (Elsevier);
• SIAM J. Computing (SIAM);
• Mathematics of Computation (Amer. Math. Soc.);
• J. Mathematical Cryptology (Walter de Gruyter);
• Revista Matematica Complutense (Madrid);
• Contributions to Discrete Mathematics (Univ. of Calgary).

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  My Publications

  Books:
  • Computational and algorithmic problems in finite fields, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.
  • (with A. J. van der Poorten and H. G. Zimmer, Editors) Proceedings of The Conference on Number Theoretic and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science, World Scientific, 1995
  • Finite fields: Theory and computation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
  • Number theoretic methods in cryptography: Complexity lower bounds, Birkhauser, 1999.
  • (with S. Konyagin) Character sums with exponential functions and their applications, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1999.
  • (with K.-Y. Lam, H. Wang and C. Xing, Editors) Proc. Workshop on Cryptography and Computational Number Theory (CCNT'99), Singapore, Birkhauser, 2001.
  • (with S. Boztas, Editors) Proc. 14th International Symposium on Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes (AAECC-14), Melbourne, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001.
  • Cryptographic applications of analytic number theory, Birkhauser, 2003.
  • (with G. Everest, A. J. van der Poorten and T. Ward) Recurrence sequences, Amer. Math. Soc., 2003.
  • (with G. L. Mullen and D. Panario, Editors) Finite Fields and Applications,, Amer. Math. Soc., 2008.
  A complete list of publications is here . Some of them are available electronically.

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  Things I

  Like	Hate
  Travelling: everywhere, anytime Dogs: any breed Beer: German, not Australian (sorry, mates) Martial Arts: black belt in Judo	Endless Meetings Lawn Mowing Ties (both on my neck and in a game) Onion

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  My Favourite WWW Sites

  Mathematics and Computer Science	Others
  Number Theory Web IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) The Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity Los Alamos National Lab e-MATH MathReview on-line (MathSciNet)	Online Test Page (by Elias Saab, U. of Missouri) Airlines on the Net Airports on the Net MapQuest German Railway Timetables and Information Currency Rates

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