Robert Low's 2010-2011 Courses
- 124ms -- a first year course providing an introduction to discrete mathematics for computing students. Mostly sets, logic and functions. Module guide, OHP slides and related material available to students on the course via CUonline.
- 125mse -- a first year course on mathematical foundation, principally an introduction to analysis. I will be covering the second half of this, comprising an introduction to analysis including the notion of limits, continuity, differentiability and the Riemann integral. Module guide, OHP slides and related material available to students on the course via CUonline.
- 224mse -- a second year course on discrete mathematics, covering graph theory and abstract algebra. I am teaching the second half, on abstract algebra and its applications. This will cover some number theory, groups theory, and an introduction to finite fields, and give applications from areas such as cryptography, error correcting codes, and combinatorics. Module guide and OHPS are available to students on the course via CUonline.
- 324mse -- a final year course on error correcting codes and cryptography. I teach the first half of this module, looking at error-correcting codes, concentrating on linear codes over Z2. The second half is on cryptography, with a strong emphasis on modern number-theoretic methods.
- 328mse -- the mathematics final year project. I am supervising two projects this year, one on continued fractions and their applications, the other on dark matter in cosmology.
