U.S.-Africa Workshop: The Mathematics of Computer Security, Tunis, Tunisia, August 2004

该奖项支持一个名为“计算机安全数学”的国际研讨会，该研讨会将于2004年8月30日至31日在突尼斯的突尼斯与非洲数学联盟四年一度的大会同时举行。该研讨会由PI和来自南非西开普省大学的Jan Persens共同组织。许多美国计算机安全领域的领先研究人员已经确定了当前在信息安全、信息交换和信息隐藏方面的研究问题，并将致力于开发解决这些问题的协作方法。在这个越来越多的信息以电子形式开发和维护的时代，计算机安全问题的重要性大大增加，为了开发更有力的方法，需要更多的学者对这一领域感兴趣。该研究研讨会将发展该领域的美国从业者之间的合作，以及美国研究人员和将参加该研讨会的非洲学者之间的合作。这个项目更广泛的影响将是加深和维持美国和非洲数学家和计算机科学家之间的关系。美国的参与者中有相当一部分来自为少数民族服务的机构，因此，预计这项活动将为这一研究领域带来更广泛的美国参与者。

0353158PattersonThis award supports an international workshop, "The Mathematics of Computer Security," to be held in conjunction with the quadrennial Congress of the African Mathematical Union, in Tunis, Tunisia on August 30-31, 2004. The workshop is being co-organized by the PI and by Jan Persens from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. A number of leading American researchers in computer security have identified current research issues in information security, information exchange, and information hiding, and will work towards developing collaborative approaches to solving these problems. Computer security issues, in this era when more and more information is developed and maintained in electronic form, have vastly increased in importance, and in order to develop stronger methods, more scholars need to become interested in this field. This research workshop will develop collaborations among the American practitioners in the field, as well as among US researchers and the African scholars who will participate in the workshop.The broader impact of this project will be to deepen and sustain the relationship between US and African mathematicians and computer scientists. A significant number of the US participants are from minority-serving institutions, so it is expected that this activity will bring a broader range of US participants to this field of research.