EPaDel Fall 2025 Section Meeting

Our Fall 2025 meeting will be held October 4, 2025 at York College.

Registration & Call For Speakers

Submissions for the speaker sessions are due September 26.

Schedule

8:30 - 10:30	Registration
8:30 - 9:00	Light Breakfast Reception (coffee, tea, pastries)
9:00 - 9:10	Welcoming Remarks
9:15 - 10:05	Invited speaker: TBA TBA
10:05 - 10:30	Coffee Break & Silent Auction
10:35 - 11:25	Invited speaker: TBA TBA
11:25 - 11:45	Business Meeting, Section Awards, Group Photo
11:45 - 1:00	Lunch
1:10 - 2:10	Faculty/Graduate Speaker Sessions Student Activity
2:15 - 3:15	Student Speaker Sessions
3:35 - 4:25	Invited speaker: TBA TBA
4:25 - 4:45	Reception & Silent Auction Winners

Invited Speakers

Image of Speaker Grant Fickes
AtomBeam Technologies
An ENCORE for Cryptographic Compression

Given prior knowledge about the distribution of symbols in some data stream, Huffman coding provides efficient compression to a size close to the Shannon entropy limit for lossless data compaction. In the rare case the distribution of symbols is dyadic, meaning each is representable as a fraction whose numerator is one and whose denominator is a power of two, the distribution of compressed bits is indistinguishable from noise, i.e., bits zero and one are equally likely. In this talk, we spend more time introducing these foundational ideas and explore the ENCORE algorithm, which seeks to extend the cryptographic properties of Huffman codes to those on non-dyadic distributions.

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Linda McGuire
Muhlenberg College

TBA

Local Organizers

The local organizer for this meeting is Frederick Butler of York College. Please contact a local organizer with site-specific questions, or contact an Executive Committee member with more general questions.