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Cryptography is a highly interdiscplinary area; calling on expertise in Pure Mathematics, Computer Science and Electronic Engineering. At Bristol we cover the full range of these topics and as such our students come with a variety of backgrounds and need to understand a diverse range of topics. Students starting can often feel overwhelmed by the types of knowledge that they feel they need to know; not knowing what they need to remember and what they should not bother remembering.
To aid you, below we have collected a set of 52 short points of things we think that at the end of the first year of a PhD all students should have some familiarity with. There is one point for every week of the year. If you know these things then following seminars, study groups and conference talks will be much easier. It will also help in putting your own work into context. Some of these are somewhat advanced topics, some of these are what one would pick up in certain undergraduate courses. This is deliberate since some are about being a cryptographer, and some are to address the fact that students start with different backgrounds.
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To aid you, below we have collected a set of 52 short points of things we think that at the end of the first year of a PhD all students should have some familiarity with. There is one point for every week of the year. If you know these things then following seminars, study groups and conference talks will be much easier. It will also help in putting your own work into context. Some of these are somewhat advanced topics, some of these are what one would pick up in certain undergraduate courses. This is deliberate since some are about being a cryptographer, and some are to address the fact that students start with different backgrounds.
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