All talks will be in Room B3.03, Mathematics department, Zeeman Building (building no. 38 on this map).

Number Theory, Geometry and Cryptography, 1-5 July 2013

Monday 1/7

• 8:00-9:15 Registration (in the Mathematics Research Centre office, Zeeman Building).
  Coffee in the common room.
  
• 9:15-10:15 Steven Galbraith (Auckland)
  "Open Problems in Lattice-Based Cryptography" slides
• 10:15-11:00 Coffee
  
• 11:00-12:00 Andrew Sutherland (MIT)
  "Computing the Image of Galois" slides
• 12:00-14:00 Lunch
  
• 14:00-15:00 Nigel Smart (Bristol)
  "Practical Multi-Party Computation" slides abstract
• 15:00-16:00 Tea
• 16:00-17:00 Tanja Lange (Eindhoven)
  "Coppersmith in the wild"
• 17:00 Reception.
  
• 18:00 Dinner.
  

Tuesday 2/7

• 9:15-10:15 Steven Galbraith (Auckland) and Dan Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  "Quasi polynomial-time algorithms for discrete logs"
• 10:15-11:00 Coffee
  
• 11:00-12:00 Vadim Lyubashevsky (ENS)
  "Lattice Signatures and Bimodal Gaussians" slides abstract
• 12:00-14:00 Lunch
  
• 14:00-15:00 Sylvain Duquesne (Rennes)
  "Pairing Computation on Jacobi's Elliptic Curve" slides
• 15:00-16:00 Tea
• 16:00-17:00 Marco Streng (Leiden)
  "Class Groups of Endomorphism Rings of Abelian Varieties"
  

Wednesday 3/7

• 9:15-10:15 Preda Mihailescu (Goettingen)
  "Post-Modern Primality Proving" slides arxiv arxiv primality testing certificates
• 10:15-11:00 Coffee
  
• 11:00-12:00 Phong Nguyen (INRIA, France and Tsinghua University, China)
  "Lattices and Finite Groups: Generalized Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions and Abstracting Lattice Cryptography"
  
• 12:00-14:00 Lunch
  
• Free Afternoon
  

Thursday 4/7

• 9:15-10:15 David Kohel (Marseille)
  "The Geometry of Efficient Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves" abstract
  
• 10:15-11:00 Coffee
  
• 11:00-12:00 Denis Simon (Caen)
  "Quadratic equations over $\mathbb F_p$ and $\mathbb Q$: an overview"
• 12:00-14:00 Lunch
  
• 14:00-15:00 Wouter Castryck (Leuven)
  "On the Intrinsicness of the Newton Polygon" arxiv
  
• 15:00-16:00 Tea
• 16:00-17:00 Andreas Enge (Bordeaux)
  "Class polynomials for abelian surfaces" abstract slides

Friday 5/7

• 9:15-10:15 James McKee (Royal Holloway)
  "Logarithms" abstract slides
  
• 10:15-11:00 Coffee
  
• 11:00-12:00 Dan Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  "McBits: fast constant-time code-based cryptography"
  
• 12:00-14:00 Lunch and Departure