PhD and Postdoc
It’s been a busy few months, and I haven’t been writing a lot on here, but times, they are-a-changing.
Ste09 In January I submitted my thesis, entitled Classical Authenticated Key Exchange and Quantum Cryptography, to my examiners. After that was 6 long weeks of waiting, most of which consisted of working on other things and travelling to Calgary to visit Donny (for research) and Marika, and then frantically preparing my slides for my defense. On March 5, I successfully defended my thesis and have thus completed all the requirements of my PhD. My final revisions have been now been accepted and the thesis is off to the printers! You can read the abstract and full thesis online.
Not one to sit still I left Waterloo one week later — after an awesome party at the Grad House and lots and lots of packing — to move all of my stuff to my parents’ place in Windsor, where I am now. And one week after that — this Thursday — I will leave Windsor to fly to a 2-year postdoctoral research position at the Information Security Institute at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
This will be quite an adventure. I don’t know anyone in Australia at the moment, though I’m sure I’ll meet people. I don’t have a place to live yet. But all of these things will work out. I’ll be updating my blog much more frequently once I move to Australia, so hopefully I’ll attract some readers back. You can follow me on my website or on my notes on Facebook (blog entries appear in both locations).
And for those of you concerned that, sadly, I’ll be going from winter in Canada to winter in Australia, let me just say this: the average high in Brisbane in July is 21 degrees Celsius.
