MATH549 Sections 50 and 80

Meeting Time and Place

Section 50 and 80

MW 5:00-6:15 Gore Hall (GOR) Room 219 (27 times)

Instructor

Andrew Novocin

Office Hours: MW 3-4:30 in 430 Smith or by appointment (I'm usually around)

Email: andynovo@udel.edu

Important Links

HW Problem Sets

Additional Honors Work

Course Notes and Daily Review

Blackhat Challenge

Topics we cover

• Error correcting and error detecting codes
• Number Theory (Groups, Fields, Vector Spaces, Polynomials)
• Linear codes
• Historical ciphers
• Symmetric / Private-key crypto
• Asymmetric / Public-key crypto
• Protocols

Your opportunities for feedback (Rough %-age of your evaluated Grade)

• 4 HW Sets (20%)
• The Blackhat Challenge (20%)
• 2 Midterm Tests (15% each)
• 1 End of term Final Exam (30%)

Textbooks

A First Course in Coding Theory by Raymond Hill

Introduction to Modern Cryptography 2nd edition by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell

Rough Calendar

• 4-10 Coding Theory Lectures
• 2-4 Algebra Lectures
• 11-17 Crypto Lectures
• HW1 due Feb 25th
• HW2 due March 11th
• Test1: March 16th
• Spring Break No Classes: March 30, April 1
• HW3 due April 8th
• Test2: April 22nd
• HW4 due April 29th
• Black Hat Challenge due May 18th
• Final Exam: TBA