The University of Arizona / MATHEMATICS

SWRIMS HIGH SCHOOL WORKSHOPS

Introduction to Cryptology

Saturday, 11 October 1997
Mathematics Building, Room 101



Workshop schedule:
  • Welcoming remarks (Alexander Perlis, aprl@math.arizona.edu)
    • What RIMS does
    • Calculus day
    • Cryptography and who uses it
  • Substitution ciphers (Susan Hammond, susan@math.arizona.edu )
    • Using Cryptaid to decode David Copperfield
  • Modular Arithmetic and Caesar Shifts (David Marshall, mrshl@math.arizona.edu)
  • Multiplication ciphers, inverses of multiplication (Susan Hammond)
  • Public-key and Diffie-Hellman (David Marshall)
  • The Nazi Enigma machine (Alexander Perlis, aprl@math.arizona.edu)
  • Science fair projects (Bob Beals, beals@math.arizona.edu)
  • Wrapup, list of web sites, printouts of TI-82 programs (Alexander Perlis)

If you are interested in pursuing any of these topics, please email the individuals above.


Workshop participants:

Sahuaro High School
Tucson, Arizona
Teachers:
  Ed Story
Ed Story's students:
  Timothy Prescott
  Clayton Kane
  Kari Brown
  Seth Tucker

Canyon del Oro High School
Tucson, Arizona
Teachers:
  Christopher Yetman
Christopher Yetman's students:
  Chris Graham
  Anna Humphreys
  Micah Bickford
  Phil Hughes
  Mark Klell
  Padmini Nagaraj
  Joey Vega
  Ruth Wylie

University High School
Tucson, Arizona
???'s students:
  Chani Johnson
  Nic Fifer
  Bardia Behabadi
  Carrie Pickeral

  

Cholla High School
Tucson, Arizona
Teachers:
  Patricia Deeren
Patricia Deeren's students:
  Samantha Cook
  Corina Garcia
  David Aldrich

Green Fields Country Day School
Tucson, Arizona
Teachers:
  Gregory Moore
Gregory Moore's students:
  Gabe Takacs
  Tim Busby

St. Gregory Preparatory School
Tucson, Arizona
Teachers:
  Susan Heintz
Susan Heintz's students:
  Steven Carey
  Chung-Ming Wang

  

Fenster School
Tucson, Arizona
Teachers:
  Kenneth Kral
Kenneth Kral's students:
  Sean Grider
  Molly Fread

Tucson High School
Tucson, Arizona
Teachers:
  Ron Hopley
  Virginia Bohme
  WERE THE TEACHERS ABOVE PRESENT?
???'s students:
  Robert Mooney
  David Obregon
  Jesse Stone
  Logan Goolsby

Summary: 8 teachers and 30 students.


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