Vanstone memorial issue of Designs, Codes and Cryptography
Monday, October 5, 2015
The
Special
Issue
on
Cryptography,
Codes,
Designs
and
Finite
Fields: In Memory
of
Scott
A.
Vanstone
has
been
published (Designs,
Codes
and
Cryptography,
Volume
77,
Issues
2-3,
December
2015, edited
by
Ian
Blake,
Alfred
Menezes
and
Doug
Stinson). The
special
issue
includes
a
guest
editorial
with
tributes
from
some of
Scott's
colleagues
and
a
list
of
Scott's
PhD
students
and
publications, and
25
contributed
research
articles.
Scott
Vanstone
passed
away
on
March
2,
2014.
He
received his
PhD
in
mathematics
in
1974,
working
under
the
supervision
of Professor
RonMullin.
Scott
was
a
professor
at
St.
Jerome's
University and
Waterloo's
C&O
department
until
his
retirement
in
2009.
He
was appointed distinguished
professor
emeritus
of
mathematics
at the
University of
Waterloo
in
2009.