2024

  • Professor Zhixiong Chen, Putian University, was awarded the Chinese National Grant entitled Cryptographic Security Analysis of Automatic Sequences with cooperation partner A. Winterhof. He will spent the winter term 2024 in Linz funded by this grant in 2024.

2023

  • Mehdi Makhul has been granted the FWF Schrödinger grant Algebraic Applications in Combinatorial Geometry. He will spend the first two years at the London School of Economics & Political Science. The return phase of one year will be spent at RICAM (Applied Discrete Mathematics).
  • Zhixiong Chen got a Scholarship of the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) for a six months stay at RICAM (July-December 2024, Applied Discrete Mathematics).

2022

  • Laszlo Merai was selected as a member of the Editorial Board of Designs, Codes and Cryptography.
  • Oliver Roche-Newton will be awarded the Prize (Förderungspreis) of the Austrian Mathematical Society (ÖMG) 2022.
  • Sumaia Saad-Eddin has been granted the FWF stand-alone project "Analytical properties of zeta- and L-functions".
  • László Mérai has been granted the project "Additive number theory in positive characteristic" funded by the NRDI (National Research Development and Innovation Office, Hungary) young researcher excellence programme.

2021

2020

2019

  • Arne Winterhof was selected as a member of the Editorial Board of Advances in Mathematics of Communications
  • Zibi Xiao got a Scholarship of the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) for a one year stay at RICAM starting in September.
  • Arne Winterhof was selected as a member of the Editorial Board for the Turkish Journal of Mathematics
  • Alexander Bors started the return phase spent at RICAM (Applied Discrete Mathematics) of his FWF Schrödinger grant "Affine Mappings on Finite Groups". He spent the first two years at the University of Western Australia.

2018

  • Special semester on Multivariate Algorithms and their Foundations in Number Theory including a Workshop on Pseudo-Randomness and Finite Fields
  • Nurdagül Anbar-Meidl accepted an offer for an Assistant Professorship at Sabanci University Istanbul
  • Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) of László Mérai, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
  • Start of FWF project ‘Bent Functions and Generalizations and APN Functions’ led by Wilfried Meidl.
  • Laszlo Merai has been granted the FWF stand-alone project ‘Pseudorandomness and Cryptography: Number Theoretic Methods’.
  • Wilfried Meidl won the best paper award of WAIFI 2018 for his paper with Thor Martinsen, Alexander Pott and Pantelimon Stanica entitled “On symmetry and differential properties of generalized Boolean functions”.

2017

  • Start of FWF project Additive Combinatorics over Finite Fields and Applications led by Arne Winterhof (co-PI: Oliver Roche-Newton)
  • Zhimin Sun started a Scholarship of the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC)

2016

  • Wilfried Meidl substituted a professorship at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
  • Arne Winterhof declined an offer for a W3 Professorship at the University of Rostock

2015

  • Book on Applied Number Theory by Harald Niederreiter and Arne Winterhof
  • Oliver Roche-Newton accepted an Associate Professorship at Wuhan University
  • Start of FWF project Functions with Special Walsh Transforms led by Wilfried Meidl

2014

2013