Prof. Alice Silverberg

Alice Silverberg is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, and is Cryptography Area Leader at UCI's Center for Cyber-Security and Privacy. Her interests include number theory, cryptography, and arithmetic algebraic geometry. She studied at Harvard, the University of Cambridge, and Princeton. She received Humboldt, Bunting, Sloan, IBM, and NSF Fellowships and an MSRI Research Professorship. She has held a number of visiting research positions in the U.S. and abroad, including at DoCoMo USA Labs, Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, the University of Erlangen, MSRI, IHES, the Max Planck Institute, Macquarie University, and IBM. She consulted for the TV show NUMB3RS, was an organizer of the Fermat Fest at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, is a consultant for a film on the mathematician Julia Robinson, and writes mathematically inspired Scottish country dances.

Personal Homepage: http://www.math.uci.edu/~asilverb/