Kursens beskrivning

Omfattning: 5

Tidtabel: 16.04.2019 - 23.05.2019

Kontaktuppgifter till kursens personal (gäller denna kursomgång): 

Camilla Hollanti

camilla.hollanti@aalto.fi

Office Y239 (meetings to be scheduled by email)

Närmare beskrivning av kursens innehåll (gäller denna kursomgång): 

We will tailor the course contents according to the background/wishes of the participants. Some topics we will study for sure are:

-Code-based cryptography. A short intro to coding theory will be provided first if needed.

-Privacy in distributed data storage (clouds, peer-to-peer networks, etc).

The only prerequisites required are linear algebra and enthusiasm! If the background of the students is sufficient and/or there is sufficient interest, we will also study algebraic lattice codes and wiretap channels.

I will give some lectures around these topics, and the students will provide their own input to the course based on topics to be agreed on together (e.g. presentations and/or written reports on some research papers). There might be some homework assignments, but no exam.

I have scheduled two sessions a week, some of which are lectures, while others are reserved for students' presentations or group work.

Närmare information om bedömningsgrunderna och -metoderna och om hur den studerande kan ta del av bedömningen (gäller denna kursomgång): 

I expect everyone to participate as many sessions as possible (absences only for good reason), as there will be no exam. The grading will be based on active participation and self-study via presentations and/or written reports. We will discuss this in more detail on the first lecture.

Preciserad belastningsberäkning (gäller denna kursomgång): 

Two contact sessions per week, total 6x2 = 12h, the rest will consist of self-study and other offline work.

Närmare information om kursmaterial (gäller denna kursomgång): 

To get an idea on code-based crypto, watch this nice lecture by Prof. Tanja Lange:

If you need some intro to linear error-correcting codes first, see this and further links therein (or any introductory book on coding theory):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_code

If you are already somewhat familiar with (linear) coding theory (which is just linear algebra with finite fields!), you can take a glance at our recent work on private information retrieval from coded distributed storage systems:

https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/16M1102562

During the course, some lecture notes/slides and links to research papers will be provided.

Kursens webbplats (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=MS-E1995

Bedömningsskala (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

0-5

Närmare information om tidtabellen (gäller denna kursomgång): 

We will design the schedule in more detail as the course proceeds.

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