Goodbye, 2023, and Hello To 2024: From Virtual to Physical
Well, 2023 has been a strange year. Basically, it was the year that things got back to normal after years of online conferences. Overall, Twitter can give you a basic timeline of a year, so here are a few of my academic highlights. We kicked off Jan 2023 with a Innovation Symposium:
And then by the end of the month, we were off to the Scottish Parliament to showcase the impact that universities have in Scotland:
Over the year, we have had a number of guest talks for students, and in Feb 2023, it was the mighty Jean-Philippe Aumasson (the co-creator of the BLAKE hashing method):
Then it was the co-inventor of the ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptograpy (ECC) method: