Recent Talks by Doug Stinson

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  • Ontario Combinatorics Workshop, University of Ottawa, May 2023, plenary speaker, "Strong and skew frame starters"

  • 9th Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM 2023), Winnipeg, June 2023, invited speaker in the minisymposium on Design Theory and Coding Theory.

  • Selected Areas in Cryptography 2023, Fredericton, NB, August 2023, I gave the Stafford Tavares Lecture, which is a one-hour invited talk, "Robust and non-malleable threshold schemes, AMD codes and external difference families"

  • CRM / UOttawa distinguished colloquium, November 22, 2023.

  • I was a co-organizer and speaker in the session on Combinatorial Design Theory at the CMS Winter 2023 Meeting in Montreal, which was held from Dec. 1-4, 2023, "Circular external difference families, graceful labellings and cyclotomy"

  • 55th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing, Florida Atlantic University, March 2024, plenary speaker, "A compendium of difference families".

  • CMS Winter Meeting, December 2024, Richmond, BC, invited speaker in the session on Combinatorial Designs, "Recent results on near-factorizations of groups".

  • 10th Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM 2025), Ottawa, May 2025, invited speaker in two minisymposiums:
    • How Many? The Art and Craft of Counting, "Some classic inequalities in design theory and coding theory"; and
    • Combinatorial Designs and Graph Decompositions, "λ-fold near-factorizations of groups".

  • Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2025) Summer School, Toronto, August 2025, 2¾ hour invited tutorial on post-quantum cryptography.

  • Birkbeck, University of London, October 2025, colloquium talk, "The long and winding road: from robust threshold schemes to difference families to near-factorizations of groups".

  • CMS Summer Meeting, June 2026, Saint John, NB, invited speaker in the session on Combinatorial Design Theory, "Optimal equidistant codes--a detective story".