Research in the Selmer Center
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The Selmer Center currently 丑补蝉听: 7 professors, 1 Dr. habilitation, 2 associate professors, 3 post-doctoral researchers, 11 PhDs, with primary research fields including
- cryptology (design and analysis of crypto-systems, post-quantum cryptography)
- coding theory and its application in cryptography and digital communication
- cryptographic Boolean functions and discrete structures
- quantum information theory and quantum machine learning
The Selmer Center has been an active research group in聽a very high international level.聽During the聽last聽15 years,聽 the Selmer Center
- 丑补蝉听more than 600 publications聽in leading international journals and conferences proceedings;
- has attracted a number of research projects from both Norway and EU;
- has been actively聽organizing and participating in international conferences as invited speakers and members of international programs, and been serving several editorial boards for leading international journals;
- has maintained extensive international collaborations and聽hosted a number of researchers聽around the world.
Evaluation
The research group has been evaluated by an international committee together with all ICT research groups in Norway on an initiative by the Norwegian Research Council in 1992, 2002 and 2012. At all three evaluations
the research group got excellent evaluations, which shows the group has performed at a high international level.
In 2002 and 2012 a grading system was used and the research group got the highest possible grade. In 2002, the highest grade 鈥�Excellent鈥� was given and the committee stated that the group
鈥�may be聽the best ICT group of any kind in Norway and occupies a distinguished position in the international community鈥�
and
鈥�聽鈥β爄s one of the gems on the Norwegian Scientific Scene, not just the context of ICT聽鈥︹��
In the 2012 evaluation, the Selmer Center got the highest possible grade as聽one out of five聽when 63 ICT research groups were evaluated.
The Selmer Center is聽one of the only two聽group with the highest grade in both the 2002 and 2012 evaluations.