Nick Alexander's Home Page

Welcome to my piece of the Web!

My name is Nick Alexander. I'm a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California. Fall quarter, 2005, I entered the PhD program in the Department of Mathematics under Dr. Alice Silverberg. Generally I am interested in cryptography; you can see my CV or my research page for some (admittedly scant) details.

Paul Macklin and I co-founded the Mathematics Graduate Student Colloquium in Fall 2006. Follow the link for information and scheduled talks!

I hack on Sage, developed by William Stein and others. From the webpage: ``Sage is free and open software that supports research and teaching in algebra, geometry, number theory, cryptography, and related areas.'' I worked on the sage-1.5 release and help develop the documentation and testing frameworks. You can browse my sage.math directory.

You might be interested in my contact info:

Address:
Nick Alexander
Department of Mathematics
103 Multipurpose Science and Technology Bldg
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3875
USA
Office:
Rowland Hall 535B
Email:
ncalexan [at] math [dot] uci [dot] edu

UCI graduate students should read two very helpful sites posted by two of our own: Paul Macklin's http://www.math.uci.edu/~pmacklin/grad_school.html and Tim Choi's http://math.uci.edu/~tchoi/latex/.

If this web page seems oddly familiar, it's because I stole it from Eric S. Raymond, one of the most influential thinkers in the open source movement.

I'm a satisfied user of an Apple MacBook Pro and I'm on my second iPod. I highly recommend both products -- once you make the switch to OS X, you'll never go back...

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