Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown University) will teach an online mini-course on foundations of cryptography.

Target audience: Anyone who is interested! Especially students who are considering (eventually) doing a Ph.D. in cryptography or theoretical computer science.

Prerequisites: Knowledge of discrete probability. Basic algorithms and theory of computation are helpful too, but not absolutely required for understanding.

Anna Lysyanskaya is currently the James A. and Julie N. Brown Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. She is originally from Kyiv and received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2002 under R. Rivest (of the famous RSA encryption algorithm). Anna Lysyanskaya has been elected three times as a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2012-2021). Recently she has been awarded the Levchin Prize for her groundbreaking work on efficient anonymous credentials.