BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Brussels BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260627T090952Z UID:E210C776-0EA5-42A7-9B50-FC777AE287C9 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260626T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260626T210100 DESCRIPTION:A celebration of Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen for receiving t he BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award for designing AES\n\nMini-symposium: COSIC Origins — Cryptography PhDs 1979 – 1997\n\nWhen? Friday 26th Jun e at 17h\nWhere? Departement Elektrotechniek\, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10\, 3 001 Leuven\, Belgium\n\nAbout the award\n\nWe are proud to announce that P rofessor Vincent Rijmen (COSIC\, KU Leuven\, Belgium and University of Ber gen\, Norway) and Professor Joan Daemen (Radboud University\, The Netherla nds) have been awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies. The award recognizes their de sign of the Rijndael algorithm\, which became the Advanced Encryption Stan dard (AES) and now secures billions of digital devices worldwide\, includi ng websites\, mobile phones\, Wi-Fi networks\, cloud storage\, and financi al systems.\n\nThe committee highlighted the significance of their work\, noting that AES has become “an intrinsic part of everyday life” and pr aising their decision to make the algorithm open-source\, enabling global standardization and transparency.\n\nThe algorithm’s design\, based on d eep mathematical and cryptographic research\, has remained secure\, fast\, and adaptable for more than 25 years\, underpinning trust in digital comm unication and commerce worldwide.\n\nRijmen and Daemen’s work illustrate s the impact of fundamental research on practical technologies that affect billions of people. AES is now widely taught in computer security courses \, used in industry standards\, and continues to be analyzed and verified by the cryptographic community\, ensuring its continued reliability and re levance.\n\nAgenda: \nProgram\n\nThe program starts with a mini-symposium\ , followed by a reception to conclude the evening.\n\nThe five speakers al l obtained their PhDs at COSIC between 1979 and 1997:\n\n- Yvo Desmedt\nAn alysis of the Security and New Algorithms for Modern Industrial Cryptograp hy\, 1984\n- Ingrid Verbauwhede\nVLSI Design Methodologies for Application -Specific Cryptographic and Algebraic Systems\, 1991\n- Bart Preneel\nAnal ysis and Design of Cryptographic Hash Functions\, 1993\n- Joan Daemen\nCip her and Hash Function Design. Strategies based on linear and differential cryptanalysis\, 1995\n- Vincent Rijmen\nCryptanalysis and Design of Iterat ed Block Ciphers\, 1997\n\nThe symposium will be moderated by Joos Vandewa lle.\n\nBldg: Departement Elektrotechniek\, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10\, Leuv en\, Vlaams Brabant\, Belgium\, 3001 LOCATION:Bldg: Departement Elektrotechniek\, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10\, Leuv en\, Vlaams Brabant\, Belgium\, 3001 ORGANIZER:kvtklooster@gmail.com SEQUENCE:24 SUMMARY:A celebration of Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen for receiving the B BVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award for designing AES URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/564994 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><div class="wp-block-group is-layout-constrai ned wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained">\n<h2 class="wp-block-post-title ">A celebration of Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen for receiving the BBVA F rontiers of Knowledge Award for designing AES</h2>\n</div>\n<main id="wp-- skip-link--target" class="wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is- layout-flow">\n<div class="entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-c onstrained wp-block-post-content-is-layout-constrained">\n<h2 class="wp-bl ock-heading">Mini-symposium: COSIC Origins &mdash\; Cryptography PhDs 1979 &ndash\; 1997</h2>\n<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>When?</strong> Friday 26th June at 17h<br><strong>Where?</strong> Departement Elektrotech niek\, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10\, 3001 Leuven\, Belgium</p>\n<h2 class="wp- block-heading">About the award</h2>\n<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We are proud to announce that&nbsp\;<strong>Professor Vincent Rijmen</strong>&nbs p\;(COSIC\, KU Leuven\, Belgium and University of Bergen\, Norway) and&nbs p\;<strong>Professor Joan Daemen</strong>&nbsp\;(Radboud University\, The Netherlands) have been awarded the&nbsp\;<strong>BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award</strong>&nbsp\;in Information and Communication Techno logies. The award recognizes their design of the&nbsp\;<strong>Rijndael al gorithm</strong>\, which became the&nbsp\;<strong>Advanced Encryption Stan dard (AES)</strong>&nbsp\;and now secures billions of digital devices worl dwide\, including websites\, mobile phones\, Wi-Fi networks\, cloud storag e\, and financial systems.</p>\n<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The committe e highlighted the significance of their work\, noting that AES has become &ldquo\;an intrinsic part of everyday life&rdquo\; and praising their deci sion to make the algorithm&nbsp\;<strong>open-source</strong>\, enabling g lobal standardization and transparency.</p>\n<p class="wp-block-paragraph" >The algorithm&rsquo\;s design\, based on deep mathematical and cryptograp hic research\, has remained secure\, fast\, and adaptable for more than 25 years\, underpinning trust in digital communication and commerce worldwid e.</p>\n<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rijmen and Daemen&rsquo\;s work illu strates the impact of fundamental research on practical technologies that affect billions of people. AES is now widely taught in computer security c ourses\, used in industry standards\, and continues to be analyzed and ver ified by the cryptographic community\, ensuring its continued reliability and relevance.</p>\n</div>\n</main><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p class="wp- block-paragraph"><strong>Program</strong></p>\n<p class="wp-block-paragrap h">The program starts with a <strong>mini-symposium</strong>\, followed by a <strong>reception </strong>to conclude the evening.</p>\n<p class="wp-b lock-paragraph">The five speakers all obtained their PhDs at COSIC between 1979 and 1997:</p>\n<ul class="wp-block-list">\n<li><strong>Yvo Desmedt</ strong><br>Analysis of the Security and New Algorithms for Modern Industri al Cryptography\, 1984</li>\n<li><strong>Ingrid Verbauwhede</strong><br>VL SI Design Methodologies for Application-Specific Cryptographic and Algebra ic Systems\, 1991</li>\n<li><strong>Bart Preneel</strong><br>Analysis and Design of Cryptographic Hash Functions\, 1993</li>\n<li><strong>Joan Daeme n</strong><br>Cipher and Hash Function Design. Strategies based on linear and differential cryptanalysis\, 1995</li>\n<li><strong>Vincent Rijmen</st rong><br>Cryptanalysis and Design of Iterated Block Ciphers\, 1997</li>\n< /ul>\n<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The symposium will be moderated by <st rong>Joos Vandewalle</strong>.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR