Jon Breitenbucher

IS Topics

Overview

This page brings together some ideas for IS topics and links to information on the topics. This is intended as a getting started with IS and picking a topic page. The topics listed are ones that I think are interesting and with which I have some experience. However, I am more than happy to advise any topic that you would like to investigate.

Possible topics

Cryptography
	Elliptic Curves	Elliptic Curve Cryptography
	AES	Deciphering the Advanced Encryption Standard
	Primality	Factorization and Primality Testing
	Network Security	Introduction to Network Security
Special functions
	Hypergeometric Series and q-Hypergeometric Series	Hypergeometric Series
		MathWorld entry
		MathWorld q-Series entry
	Orthogonal Polynomials	MathWorld entry
Combinatorics
	Properties of Partitions	MathWorld entries
	Combinatorial Algorithms	Nijenhuis and Wilf: Combinatorial Algorithms
Graph Theory
	Random Graphs	Random graphs with arbitrary degree distribution and their applications
	Proofs of the Four Color Theorem	The Four Color Theorem
	Networks	Random graphs as models of networks
Ramanujan	Anything related to Ramanujan	Ramanujan

Fast Computations of Digits of Pi		Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi or How to Compute One Billion Digits of Pi

Typing your IS

I encourage my students to use the LaTeX typesetting system. You can find more information at my LaTeX wiki.

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