Craig Bauer, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., North Carolina State University
• M.S., North Carolina State University
• B.A., Franklin & Marshall College

Credentials

• Scholar-in-Residence at NSA’s Center for Cryptologic History

Courses

• History of Codes and Ciphers
• Calculus I
• Discrete Mathematics
• Linear Algebra
• Cryptology

Research Interests

• Cryptology (the art/science of codes and ciphers) 
  Watch Dr. Bauer's Spartan Speaks presentation, "Cryptology: The Greatest Application of Mathematics"
• Enumerative Combinatorics

Recent Publications

• Exploring Mathematics with the Computer, PRIMUS (2010).
• From the Archives: Reading Stimson’s Mail, Cryptologia, Vol. 31, No. 2 (2007). (coauthored with Joel Burkholder)
• Cracking Matrix Encryption Row by Row, Cryptologia, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2007). (coauthored with Katherine Millward)
• The Cryptologic Contributions of Dr. Donald Menzel, Cryptologia, Vol. 30, No. 4 (2006). (coauthored with John Ulrich)
• Results of an Automated Attack on the Running Key Cipher, Cryptologia, Vol.29, No. 3 (2005). (coauthored with Elliott J. Gottloeb)

Recent Presentations

• William Penn High School, York, PA – How the Enigma Machine Worked and How it Was Cracked - November 5, 2010
• DeVry University -Turning Japanese (ciphers into intelligence) - October 8, 2010
• Cryptologic History Symposium - The Early History of Teaching Cryptology - October 15, 2009
• Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics (PASHoM), Villanova University, Cryptology on campus during World War II - September 17, 2009
• Mount St. Marys, Invited lecture at as part of the MSM ACM/MAA Lecture Series- “A New Connection Between the Triangles of Stirling and Pascal” - November 3, 2008

Service

• Editor-in-chief of the international journal Cryptologia.