Andy Klapper's Home Page
- Summer Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 1-2PM and by appointment.
- Teaching: I am teaching CS 678
in the Fall 2008 semester.
- Starting July 16, 2008, I will be the Director of Graduate
Studies in the Department of Computer Science.
- In September 2008 I will be General Chair of the conference
Sequences and
Their Applications (SETA) 2008. It will be held in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
- Mark Goresky and I have been working on our book on algebraic methods
of sequence generation. You can see a draft of the book, titled
Algebraic Feedback Shift Registers.
- Research interests: applying algebra and number theory to
problems in cryptography and communications. My current research
projects involve 2-Adic Shift Registers,
Sequences for CDMA
Systems, and
Multicovering
Radii of Codes
- Available papers.
- Diagrams
of AFSRs
- Current Vita.
- My life partner is Judy Goldsmith
- My hobbies include Morris Dancing
and Bird
Watching. Sometimes I do both at the same time, but usually the
other dancers get upset when I run into them.
- Photos of spring
wild flowers at Raven Run.
- Photos from a trip to Australia.
- Our night blooming cereus.
- Photos from Ireland. 2005
- Photos from the air over Alaska.
- Orchids and other flowers at Fukuoka Botanical Garden.
- China, 9/14/06 to 9/28/06: Lijiang and Beijing.
A poem about purple houses:
A lavender house
With flowery grilled windows
summons italy
Or southern spain
Or lands of sand and palm trees
and my friend judy.
Judy's purple eaves
long spread fierce neighborhood woe
Now they're faded though
by Dorene Cornwell
I can be reached at: Dept. of
Computer Science, 779A Anderson Hall, University of Kentucky,
Lexington Kentucky, 40506-0046, USA.
Phone numbers: (859) 257-6743 (Office); (859) 323-1971 (FAX).
E-mail: klapper at cs.uky.edu