Welcome to  Pante Stanica’s Homepage

(major update, February 2025)

    

                    

Research                          Teaching                Students Advised
                                                                                  

Office: Spanagel Hall 242B, Monterey, CA 93943
Email: pstanicaATnpsDOTedu
(it seems our spam filter is too unforgiving, so if I do not reply to your email, most likely it means that I haven't received it, so use my personal email instead; pstanicaATgmailDOTcom)

Professor and Manager of Secure Communication program in Applied Mathematics Department, Naval Postgraduate School; I am also associated with the Institute of Mathematics of Romanian Academy  as a Researcher

Privileged to have won the 2021 George Boole International Prize for considerable contributions to the theory of Boolean functions!

Consider enrolling in the Mathematics of Secure Communication (MSC) certificate program  we offer in the Applied Math Dept of NPS. Make sure you put in the request in Python to be awarded the certificate at graduation. Click the picture below to see the MSC Brochure, or look at some pictures of our graduates: Pic(2024)  Pic6  Pic5 Pic4  Pic3  Pic2 Pic1

                                    

Take a look at an MSC video on the NPS video portal site (streaming server)

Our Math Dept library hosts some very rare materials, like Edouard Lucas (1878). "Théorie des Fonctions Numériques - Simplement Périodiques", with Lucas personal signature, dedicated to R. Dedekind (the copy belonged to one of the first members of the department, W.R. Church)

I wrote a book with Thomas W. Cusick: Cryptographic Boolean Functions and  Applications, Academic Press - Elsevier, March 2009; with a second edition out in March 2017. If errors are found, we would appreciate if you could send them to either author.

(1st edition)    (2nd edition)

 

My Erdos number is 2 (Luca/Pomerance->Erdos)
My Einstein number is 3, Gauss number is 5, and Riemann number is 5
(Pomerance->Straus->Einstein->Minkowski->Gauss)
(Filaseta->Schinzel->Davenport->Landau->Riemann)

* Curriculum Vitae   ---   Math Genealogy  --- Research  --- Teaching

* Math Journals available at NPS (on and off-campus)     and don't forget the Journal of Craptology (and, no, it is not a typo), one of my favorites!
* Grant Opportunities at NPS and elsewhere

* Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers

• Ph.D. in Mathematics - State University of New York at Buffalo (1998) (advisor: Prof. T.W. Cusick)
• Ph.D. in Mathematics - Institute of Mathematics of Romanian Academy, Bucharest,  Romania (1995-1998) (advisor: Academician Dr. Doc. Nae Popescu)
• Discrete Applied Mathematics (Editor 2014-present)
• Advances in Mathematics of Communications (2021-present)
• European Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (Associate Editor and Number Theory Editor 2007-present)
• Australian Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Associate Editor 2003-2006)
• Member of Mensa International (since 1990), Mathematical Society of Romania (since 1992), American Mathematical Society (since 1993), Mathematical Association of America (since 1999), Fibonacci Association & Research Group in Mathematical Inequalities and Applications (since 2000);
• I have interests in Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics, Boolean Functions, Cryptography, Coding Theory, Algebraic and Analytic Number Theory.
• I do some consulting in computer and security issues in my spare (what's that notion?) time.

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