Dr. Saban Alaca

Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Researchers

Ph.D. Students

Goldwyn Millar. Almost Difference Sets with Applications to the Theory of Sequences. Defence expected in Dec 2017.
Graeme Turner. The Discriminant and Conductor of Bicyclic Quartic Fields. Defended Nov 2016.
Zafer Selcuk Aygin (co-supervised with A. Alaca). Eisenstein Series, Eta Quotients and Their Applications in Number Theory. Defended Sep 2016.
Greg Doyle. Quadratic Form Gauss Sums. Defended May 2016.

M.Sc. Students

Ebenezer Ntienjem (co-supervised with A. Alaca). Evaluations of Certain Convolution Sums. Defended Fall 2015.
Hawa Bensawd. Completed Fall 2011 (course-based).
Greg Doyle. A Recursive Formula for the Convolution Sum of Divisor Functions. Defended Fall 2010.

Honours Projects Students

Tony Ranieri. Exploration of Difference Sets and Their Application Towards Optimizing Coding Masks for High Energy Optics. Winter 2015.
Tom Morrice. Difference Sets - An investigation into the properties and criteria for existence. Winter 2015.
Rashid Shelaga. Agrawal-Kayal-Saxena (AKS) primality test. Summer 2014.
Daniel Spracklin. On the APRCL primality. Winter 2013.
Travis Hof-Macneil. Lattice based cryptography and NTRUSign signature scheme. Winter 2013.
Ebenezer Ntienjem (co-supervised with A. Alaca). NTRU: A Lattice Based Cryptography. Fall 2012.
Greg Doyle. Eisenstein Reciprocity Theorem and Its Applications. Winter 2004.
Erin Hayhoe. Point Counting Algorithms for the Group of Rational Points on an Elliptic Curve. Fall 2002.
Claude Canas. Internet Cryptography. Fall 2002.
Andrew McCormack, School of Computer Science (co-supervised with Evangelos Kranakis). Lifting Elliptic Curves and Points for the Xedni Calculus Algorithm. Fall 2001.
Tsige Kibret (co-supervised with A. Alaca). School of Math. and Stats. Primality testing using elliptic curves. Fall 2001.
Zinabu Biru. Factoring integers using elliptic curves. Winter 2001.
Jason Ramsay, School of Computer Science (co-supervised with Evangelos Kranakis). Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems: From Theory to Implementation. Summer 2000.

Undergraduate Research Students

Andrej Vucovic. Summer internship supported by the Office of the Dean of Science. Summer 2015.
Arthur Mehta. NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. Summer 2013.
Emile Greer. Undergraduate Research Assistant. Summer 2013.
Christopher Boyd. NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. Summer 2009.
Daniel Spracklin. Summer internship supported by the Office of the Dean of Science. Summer 2009.