Gérard Nahon, in memoriam

Gérard Maze and Lorenz

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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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...

Memoriam.

George W. Housner, Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, emeritus, died after a short illness on 10 November 2008, just a few weeks before his 98th birthday. He was in the retirement home in Pasadena where he had lived for several years. For all of us who knew George, this marked the end of an era. Few people have guided and nurtured a field the way George led earthquake engineering over a per...

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...