| Places I
have worked |
University
of Glasgow (1984-1988)
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I did my first degree in the Department
of Mathematics at
the University of Glasgow , graduating in 1988. When
planning your trip to trace my past, leave plenty of time to explore Glasgow, a
pure dead brilliant place. Just in case your ignorance knows no bounds,
Glasgow is the largest (but not the capital) city in Scotland . |
Royal
Holloway (1988-1992)
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I emigrated to England (more precisely to Englefield Green) to study
my PhD in the Mathematics Department at Royal Holloway, which was then
called Royal
Holloway and Bedford New College (RHBNC). My thesis was titled
Discrete
Structures in the Theory of Secret Sharing (there is a deeply
unimpressive pun in that title which perhaps only mathematicians will
notice, but blame Whit Diffie as he indirectly suggested it) and was
supervised by Prof. Fred Piper.
I thought I had succeeded in escaping from Royal Holloway in April
1992, but it was not to be... |
University
of Adelaide (1992-1996)
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I spent four years doing hard
labour in Australia
. I
was employed as an ARC Research Associate in the Pure
Mathematics Department of
the University of
Adelaide .
The fine city of Adelaide is the capital of South Australia, allegedly the driest state
of the driest continent in the world. I like being dry.. |
Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven (1996-1999)
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In November 1996 I
unexpectedly became a Belgian. It can happen to anyone who is not
careful. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow working with the research group COSIC (but
don't confuse them with COSIC, although at times the
similarities are uncanny) in the Electrical
Engineering Department
(yes-really!) of the Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven
in the very fine Flemish city of Leuven. Leuven is somewhere around
the middle of a strange "tortilla chip" shaped country called Belgium,
to whom I have dedicated this
page.
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Royal Holloway (2000-20??)
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In January 2000 I returned to
Royal Holloway to take up my current position (sitting, facing
terminal, slightly hunched over keypad). I became a Reader, which at
least had a clear job description and am now a professor. I occupy an office just 2 metres from
the one I moved into in October 1988. I guess that's some sort of
progress... |
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