Date: 15:00-16:00, Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Venue: Science Building 322, Tsinghua University

Title: Hybrid Sequences

Speaker: Professor Harald Niederreiter, Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics

Biography: Harald Niederreiter is now a senior scientist of Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics. Harald received his PhD from the University of Vienna in 1968. Before moving to Austria in 2008, his previous mainly positions: Director of Institute of Discrete Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Director of Institute of Information Processing, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Professor of Mathematics of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science of National University of Singapore. His main research interests: Numerical Analysis ; Pseudorandom Numbers ; Quasi-Monte Carlo methods ; Cryptology ; Finite Fields ; Applied Algebra ; Algorithms ; Number Theory ; Coding Theory.

He got many Honor and Awards: Full member of Austrian Academy of Sciences; Full member and former member of the presidium of German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina; Cardinal Innitzer Prize for Natural Sciences in Austria; Invited speaker at ICM 1998 (Berlin) and ICIAM 2003 (Sydney) ;Singapore National Science Award 2003.