CURRICULUM VITAE

Renate Scheidler

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

PhD, Computer Science, University of Manitoba (Canada), 1993
Doctoral Dissertation: Applications of Algebraic Number Theory to Cryptography
Supervisor: Prof. H.C. Williams
Diplom (BSc & MSc), Mathematics, University of Cologne (Germany), 1987
Diplomarbeit (Master's thesis): Algebra and Arithmetic of Cubic Forms and Cubic Number Fields (in German)
Supervisor: Prof. W. Jehne

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Graduate Director (since 2011)
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Calgary
Professor (since 2008)
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Calgary
Professor (since 2008)
Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
Associate Professor (2001-2008)
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Calgary
Associate Professor (2001-2008)
Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
Associate Professor (1999-2001)
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
Associate Professor (1999-2001)
Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Delaware (secondary appointment)
Visiting Assistant Professor (1999-2000)
Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo (sabbatical appointment)
Assistant Professor (1995-1999)
Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Delaware (secondary appointment)
Assistant Professor (1993-1999)
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware

TEACHING

University of Calgary:
CPSC/PMAT 669 Cryptography
CPSC/PMAT 629 Elliptic Curves and Cryptography
PMAT 529/649 Advanced Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
PMAT 503.04 Modern Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
CPSC 429 Applied Cryptography
CPSC/PMAT 418 Introduction to Cryptography
CPSC 413 Design and Analysis of Algorithms I
MATH 401 Topics in Cryptography
PMAT 329 Introduction to Cryptography
CPSC 313 Introduction to Computability
University of Delaware:
MATH-826 Topics in Cryptography
MATH-672 Vector Spaces
MATH-650 Abstract Algebra
MATH-567 Discrete Mathematics for Secondary Teachers
MATH-466 Introduction to Number Theory and Cryptography (independent study)
MATH-466 Cryptography (independent study)
MATH-451 Abstract Algebra
MATH-389 Graph Theory
MATH-315 Discrete Mathematics II
MATH-222 Calculus II
MATH-221 Calculus I
MATH-210 Discrete Mathematics I
University of Wyoming (RMMC Graduate Summer School 2006):
Global Function Fields from an Algorithmic Perspective
Memorial University (AARMS Graduate Summer School 2004):
Number Theoretic Cryptology
University of Waterloo (Sabbatical 1999-2000):
M135 Algebra
University of Manitoba:
74.327 Formal Languages and Automata
74.120 Introductory Computer Science
74.100 Information Technology for Management

STUDENTS

Monireh Rezai Rad, PhD, Mathematics, University of Calgary (expected 2013)
Perlas Caranay, PhD, Mathematics, University of Calgary (expected 2013)
Colin Weir, PhD, Mathematics, University of Calgary (expected 2012)
Vanessa Dixon, MSc, Mathematics, University of Calgary, 2011
Adrian Tang, PhD, Mathematics, University of Calgary, 2011
Pieter Rozenhart, PhD, Mathematics, University of Calgary, 2009
Perlas Caranay, MSc, Mathematics, University of Calgary, 2009
Eric Landquist, PhD, Mathematics, University of Illinois, 2009
Manisha Parmar, MSc, Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2008
Qingquan Wu, PhD, Mathematics, University of Illinois, 2007
Karel Bergmann, MSc, Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2007
Taysia Krivoruchko, MSc, Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2007
Nick Sullivan, MSc, Mathematics, University of Calgary, 2007
Daniel Weimer, Diplom (MSc), Mathematics, Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), 2004
Richard Cannings, MSc, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2004
Brendan Oseen, MSc, Mathematics, University of Calgary, 2003
Boonyarit Intiyot, BSc Honors, Mathematics, University of Delaware, 1998

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Felix Fontein (PhD, Mathematics, University of Zuerich, Switzerland, 2008), 2009-2010
Qingquan Wu (PhD, Mathematics, University of Illinois, 2007), 2008-2010
Pieter Rozenhart (PhD, Mathematics, University of Calgary, 2009), 2009
Eric Landquist (PhD, Mathematics, University of Illinois, 2009), 2009
Stéphane Lemieux (PhD, Mathematics, University of Alberta, 2004), 2004-2006
Roger Patterson (PhD, Mathematics, Macquarie University, Australia, 2004), 2004-2006

RESEARCH GRANTS

NSERC Discovery Grant, 2011-2016
CNRS Office of International Relations, Project for International Scientific Cooperation (Principal Investigator M. Jacobson, Co-Investigator L. Imbert), 2010-2013.
NSERC Discovery Grant, 2006-2011
NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grant (Principal Investigator: G. Chen), 2009
Canada-France Research Foundation (Principal Investigator M. Jacobson, Co-Investigator L. Imbert), 2007-2009
NSERC Strategic Grant (Principal Investigator V. Dimitrov), 2004-2007
MITACS Award (Principal Grant Holders H.C. Williams & A. Menezes), 2003-2007
NSERC Research Grant, 2002-2006
University of Calgary, Research Excellence Envelope, 2003-2005
University of Calgary, Capital Start-Up, 2001-2003
NSA Young Investigator Grant, 2000-2003
NSF Research Grant, 1996-1998
University of Delaware Research Foundation (UDRF), Research Grant, 1994-1995

PUBLICATIONS

INVITED PRESENTATIONS (past 6 years)

Classification and symmetries of a family of continued fractions with bounded period length
AWM - 40 Years and Counting Conference, Brown University (Rhode Island, USA), September 18, 2011
Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA), January 9, 2011
Infrastructure of function fields
Fields Institute Conference in Number Theory, Carleton University, Ottawa (Ontario, Canada), June 29, 2011
Alberta Number Theory Days, Banff International Research Station, Banff (Alberta, Canada), June 18, 2011
Efficient divisor reduction on hyperelliptic curves
Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA), January 7, 2011
CMS Summer Meeting, Fredericton (New Brunswick, Canada), June 5, 2010
Joint Mathematics Meeting, American and Korean Mathematical Societies, Seoul (South Korea), December 17, 2009
9th Central European Conference on Cryptography, Trebic (Czech Republic), June 24, 2009
The l-rank structure of a global function field
CMS Winter Meeting, Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada), December 5, 2010
Number Theory Seminar, University of Texas at Austin (Texas, USA), September 2, 2010
Elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography
Workshop on Computer Security and Cryptography, University of Montreal (Quebec, Canada), April 12, 2010
Ramification groups and different exponents in Artin-Schreier composita
Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Francisco (California, USA), January 14, 2010
Construction of all cubic function fields of a given discriminant
Algorithms and Number Theory Workshop, Dagstuhl (Germany), May 25, 2009
The Mathematical Interests of Peter Borwein, Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, British Columbia), May 12, 2008
A method for constructing function fields of high l-rank
WIN - Women in Numbers Workshop, Banff International Research Station, Banff (Alberta, Canada), November 3, 2008
An explicit treatment of biquadratic function fields
AMS Fall Western Sectional Meeting, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), October 4, 2008
Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA), January 7, 2007
Real hyperelliptic curves
Colloquium, University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), October 16, 2008
Fields Institute Workshop on New Directions in Cryptography, University of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada), June 26, 2008
Algebra, Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar, University of Texas at Austin (Texas, USA), March 6, 2008
Workshop on Number Theory and Cryptography - Open Problems, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA (California, USA), October 11, 2006
Cryptography on real hyperelliptic curves
CMS Winter Meeting, Ottawa (Ontario, Canada), December 7, 2008
SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, University of Vermont, Burlington (Vermont, USA), June 19, 2008
Hyperelliptic curves and their arithmetic; Hyperelliptic curves and cryptography; Hyperelliptic curves - open problems
Three lectures, International Workshop on Cryptography, Ewha Womans University, Seoul (South Korea), January 29, 2008
Hyperelliptic function fields of high three rank
Computational Algebra Seminar, University of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia), January 23, 2008
ACAC Seminar, Macquarie University, Sydney (New Sough Wales, Australia), January 18, 2008
Number Theory Seminar, University of Wyoming, Laramie (Wyoming, USA), November 14, 2007
Algebraic Number Theory Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois, USA), November 6, 2007
Tenth Pacific North West Number Theory Conference, Digipen Institute of Technology, Redmond (Washington, USA), February 26, 2006
Cantor versus NUCOMP on hyperelliptic curves
Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA), January 8, 2007
Units in cubic function fields
CMS Summer Meeting, Calgary (Alberta, Canada), June 3, 2006
The real model of a hyperelliptic curve
AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Notre Dame, Southbend (Indiana, USA), April 8, 2006
Joint SFU/UBC Number Theory Seminar, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby (British Columbia, Canada), March 23, 2006

INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Lecture, How to Communicate a Shared Secret -- Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Interdisciplinary Research Forum, University of Calgary, January 28, 2012
Lecture, Cryptography, and scavenger hunt
CEMC Seminar in Computer Science for Young Women Program, June 13, 2011
CEMC Seminar in Computer Science for Young Women Program, June 14, 2010
Lecture, Cryptography - the art of secret writing - from old to new
Graduate School Information Day, Fields Institute, Toronto, November 18, 2006
RRMC Graduate Summer School, University of Wyoming, Laramie (Wyoming, USA), June 29, 2006
Math Awareness Week, University of Delaware, Newark (Delaware, USA), April 21, 2006
PIMS/Shell Lunchbox Lecture Series, Shell Centre, Calgary, March 15, 2005
Panelist, If I were an iPod - Privacy, Autonomy, and the Internet for Dummies forum
sponsored by the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership, Epcor Centre, Calgary, April 4, 2005
Lecture, Public key cryptography - protecting our secrets and our identities
Student Colloquium, Smith College, Northampton (Massachusetts, USA), April 22, 2004
Judge, Canada Wide Science Fair, University of Calgary, May 12-17, 2003
Dinner Address, Cryptography - how to keep our secrets safe
Awards Presentation Dinner, 26th Annual Calgary Junior High School Mathematics Contest (Alberta, Canada), June 10, 2002
Lecture, How safe are our secrets? Provably secure public key cryptosystems ,
Math Club, University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), February 2000

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Associate Editor, Mathematics of Computation, since 2006
Associate Editor, Advances in Mathematics of Communications, since 2006
Co-Editor, WIN - Women in Numbers: Research Directions in Number Theory, Fields Institute Communications, vol. 60, American Mathematical Society, 2011
Guest Editor, Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics 24(3), special issue on algorithmic number theory and its applications, 2007

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

Co-Organizer, CNTA 2012, Lethbrige (Alberta, Canada), June 17-22, 2012
Program Committee Member, ECC 2010, Seattle (Washington, USA), October 19-21, 2010
Co-Organizer, ECC 2009, University of Calgary (Canada), August 24-26, 2009
Co-Organizer, Graduate Summer School on Elliptic Curves, University of Calgary (Canada), August 19-22, 2009
Co-Organizer, Alberta Number Theory Day, University of Calgary (Canada), April 30, 2009
Program Committee Member, CHiLE 2009, Frutillar (Chile), March 16-20, 2009
Co-Organizer, BIRS Workshop WIN - Women in Numbers, Banff (Alberta, Canada), November 2-7, 2008
Organizing Committee Chair, ANTS-VIII, Banff (Alberta, Canada), May 17-22, 2008
Co-Organizer, Thematic Program in Cryptography, Fields Institute, University of Toronto (Canada), August - December 2006
Organizing Committee Chair, Workshop on Computational Challenges Arising in Algorithmic Number Theory and Cryptography, Fields Institute, University of Toronto (Canada), October 30 - Nov. 3, 2006
Program Committee Member, ANTS-VI, Burlington (Vermont, USA), June 13-18, 2004
Co-organizer, Number Theory Conference in Honour of Prof. H. C. Williams' 60th Birthday, Banff (Alberta, Canada), May 24-30, 2003

MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

Member, Steering Committee, Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance (ISPIA), University of Calgary, since 2010
Affiliate Member, Institute for Quantum Information Science (IQIS), University of Calgary, since 2002
Research Associate, Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE), 2001-2011
Member, Management Board, Centre for Information Security and Cryptography (CISaC), University of Calgary, 2001-2007
Member, Association of Women in Mathematics, since 2011
Member, Canadian Mathematical Society, since 2001
Member, American Mathematical Society, 1991-2001
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