Norway Trip: Erin Hales
At the end of October, I went to Bergen for a week-long research visit to Simula UiB. I was visiting two collaborators to work on a research project which came out of discussions at the Edinburgh summer school that I organised together with Joe and Rachel this summer. It was great to visit Norway again, after being in Trondheim earlier this year for Eurocrypt. This time, however, it was much colder, and quite a bit darker too! It's great to be able to travel again and visit other researchers, especially those at a similar stage of research to me. Having collaborators and friends around the world is like a bigger version of the cohorts we have in the CDT. We discussed our research ideas, and broke several of them. It's much easier to argue about how the secret keys are distributed when you're in the same room with a whiteboard in it, as well as plentiful cups of tea! As well as getting lots of work done, I was able to participate in the Norge Kryptoseminar, or the Norwegian