Nigel Boston
Emeritus Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin - Madison
480 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Emeritus Professor, Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1415 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706
E-mail: boston at (math or ece or engr) dot wisc dot edu
CV and Publications
Detailed CV
General Information
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1987.
Area of Specialization
Algebraic number theory, group theory, arithmetic geometry, computational algebra, coding theory, cryptography, and other
applications of algebra to electrical engineering.
Former PhD Students
- Gebhard Boeckle, 1995
- David Ose, 1995
- Walter Dabrowski, 1996
- Judy Walker, 1996
- Yihsiang Liow,
1997
- Boris Iskra,
1998
- Sharon
Brueggeman, 1999
- Darrin Doud, 1999
- David Perry, 1999
- Doug Kuhlman, 2000
- Mark Bauer, 2001
- Thomas Kuhnt, 2002
- Mona Musa, 2003
- Michael Bush, 2004
- Bogdan Petrenko, 2004
- Bret Benesh, 2005
- You-Chiang Yi, 2005
- Qian Zhang, 2005
- John Jossey, 2006
- Wei-Yang Lin, 2006
- Nadya Markin, 2006
- Matt Darnall, 2008
- Chris Holden, 2008
- Haluk Sengun, 2008
- Jay Wierer, 2008
- Harris Nover, 2009
- Jonathan Blackhurst, 2011
- Meghan DeWitt, 2011
- David Conti, 2012
- Rachel Davis, 2013
- Ting-Ting Nan, 2015
- Kejia Wang, 2016
- Zachary Charles, 2017
- Brandon Alberts, 2018
- Jing Hao, 2018
- William Cocke, 2019
- Yuan Liu, 2019
- Ryan Julian, 2019
- Vefa Goksel, 2020
Postdoctoral Associates
- Marcin Mazur
- Pascal Vontobel
- Rafe Jones
- Zev Klagsbrun
- Daniel Pimentel-Alarcon
Courses
Seminars
Conferences
- Symmetries of surfaces, maps, and dessins, BIRS 2017
- ICMS Braids Workshop
- Groups, Rings, and Their Automorphisms Conference, Lincoln, UK, 2016
- SaTC Workshop on Privacy and Security
- Applied Algebra Days 3, 2016
- Geometry and Computation on Groups and Complexes, Newcastle, 2016
- Low-dimensional topology and number theory, VIII, Fukuoka, 2016
- Nexus of Information and Computation Theories IHP Spring 2016 Thematic Program
- The Mathematics of Post-Quantum Cryptography, 2015
- Limit Theorems and Algebraic Statistics, 2014
- Applied Algebra Days 2, 2014
- The Art of Iterating Rational Functions over Finite Fields, 2013
- Trends in Coding Theory, Ascona 2012
- DIMACS 2011 - 2017 Special Focus on Cybersecurity
- Applied Algebra Days 1, 2011
- Besancon Fonctions L et Arithmetique
- Grunewald birthday conference
- ESI profinite groups meeting
- Conference in honor of John Labute
- Low-dimensional topology and number theory
- Profinite and asymptotic group theory
- 3rd Hamilton geometry and topology workshop
- Mathematical challenges and opportunities in sensor networks
- PAlmetto Number Theory Series
- Midwest Algebraic Number Theory Meetings
- 7th Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium, ANTS VII
- Instructional Conference on Fermat's Last Theorem
- 3rd Midwest Arithmetical Geometry in Cryptography
Workshop
- 2nd Midwest Arithmetical Geometry in Cryptography
Workshop
Institutes
Editorships
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