These notes were written for a combined undergraduate/graduate cryptography course. This material can mostly be found in the text assigned to the graduate students, Codes and Cryptography by Dominic Welsh, but not in the text assigned to the undergraduates, Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory by Trappe and Washington. These notes are meant to fill the gap for the undergraduate stude...

These notes are written as supplements to the textbook, “Numerical Linear Algebra” by Lloyd Trefethen and David Bau, for CAAM 454/554 students. Those who are preparing for the CAAM Ph.D Qualifying exam on Numerical Analysis should do the exercises provided in these notes. We will mostly follow the notation of the book. For instance, unless otherwise specified, the norm ‖ · ‖ refers to the Eucli...

This paper reports on the results of an initiative to create and annotate a corpus of suicide notes that can be used for machine learning. Ultimately, the corpus included 1,278 notes that were written by someone who died by suicide. Each note was reviewed by at least three annotators who mapped words or sentences to a schema of emotions. This corpus has already been used for extensive scientifi...

Literature For a great deal of information on Runge-Kutta methods consult J.C. Butcher, Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations, second edition, Wiley and Sons, 2008, ISBN 9780470723357. That book also has a good introduction to linear multistep methods. In these notes we refer to this books simply as Butcher. The notes were written independently of the book which accounts for som...

We developed AirTransNote, an interactive learning system augmented by digital pens and PDAs for each student. All notes written on regular paper sheets are immediately digitized and transmitted to teacher’s PC, and recognized to generate feedback on responses. Our system helps students to recall process of thinking by reproducing drawings on a projected screen. We conducted an experimental lec...

Informal notes for a series of lectures delivered 12–23 July 1999 at the Graduate Summer Workshop on Exterior Differential Systems at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA. N.B.: This version of the notes has incorporated various minor corrections kindly pointed out to me by students and others up to the date of March 16, 2013. It is still incomplete, since I have not (ye...

These are notes covering part of a contact geometry course. They are in very preliminary form. In particular the last few sections have not really been proof read. Hopefully I will be able to come back to these notes in the near future to improve and extend them, but I hope they are useful as is. Section 8 have not been written yet. Section 7 currently contains no proofs and section 1 contains ...

During the first three days of September, 1997, I had the privilege of giving a series of five lectures at the beginning of the “School on Algebraic K-Theory and Applications” at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste. What follows are the written notes of my lectures, essentially in the form distributed to the audience. I am especially grateful to Professor Adremi Kuku for...

Research on written language comprehension has generally assumed that the phonological properties of a word have little effect on sentence comprehension beyond the processes of word recognition. Two experiments investigated this assumption. Participants silently read relative clauses in which two pairs of words either did or did not have a high degree of phonological overlap. Participants were ...

This document is written to complement my 1989 lecture notes on Encryption, Signatures and Cryptographic Protocols. In it I sketch what I believe should be done when trying to use these notes as part of a course on Foundations of Cryptography. In addition, I also indicate what I believe should be done in order to augment the material so that it can t into a comprehensive book on Foundations of ...