Gérard Gayot (1941-2009)

Priscilla Schaffer (1941-2009): a stalwart herpesvirologist.

Priscilla Ann Schaffer died from complications of Parkinson's Disease on 18 November 2009. Priscilla was a colleague and a friend, as well as being a stellar member of the virology community. She was a longtime Journal of Virology reviewer, a member of the editorial board, and a frequent contributor. Her energy and enthusiasm for virology, her students, her colleagues, and life in general were ...

Gérard Maze and Lorenz

Cryptography based on Semigroup Actions ∗ Gérard Maze

A generalization of the original Diffie-Hellman key exchange in (Z/pZ) found a new depth when Miller [27] and Koblitz [16] suggested that such a protocol could be used with the group over an elliptic curve. In this paper, we propose a further vast generalization where abelian semigroups act on finite sets. We define a Diffie-Hellman key exchange in this setting and we illustrate how to build in...

6 Dynamics of trap models Gérard

3 The one-dimensional trap model 9 3.1 The Fontes-Isopi-Newman singular diffusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.2 The scaling limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.3 Aging results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.4 Subaging results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.5 Behaviour of t...

Remembering Amir Pnueli, a great scientist and a great friend (April 22, 1941-November 2, 2009)