The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Committee for the awarding of the educational and qualification degree Doctor of Philosophy hereby announce that on January 9, 2017, at 3 p.m. in the Conference Room of IMI - BAS, Acad. Georgi Bonchev Street, Block 8, Sofia, the defense will be held of the dissertation on:

New Heuristic Methods for Generation of Bijective S-Boxes with Good Cryptographic Properties

of GEORGI VELKOV IVANOV

The dissertation and related documentation is available in the IMI Library or at http://www.math.bas.bg/IMIdocs/ZRASRB/degrees_phd_current.php