[crypto] [tanja at hyperelliptic.org: Workshop on Elliptic Curves and Computation]

R. Hirschfeld ray at unipay.nl
Wed Sep 15 13:00:11 CEST 2010


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Date: 14 Sep 2010 22:51:36 -0000
From: Tanja Lange <tanja at hyperelliptic.org>
Subject: Workshop on Elliptic Curves and Computation

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* Third announcement Workshop on Elliptic Curves and Computation    *
* Oct 18-22, 2010 at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, USA *
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News:
* Registration is now open at
	http://2010.eccworkshop.org/
  Thanks to the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, 
  Certicom and PIMS we are able to offer registration at only
  200 USD for regular participants and 100 USD for students.

* STIPENDS APPLICATION DEADLINE: 17 Sep!
  Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors we are offering some
  stipends to help PhD students attend the workshop. 
  Please consider applying in particular if you study at a university
  in the US or Canada. Visit the webpage for further information. 

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Please excuse multiple mailings.

The study of elliptic curves has been closely connected with machine
computation almost since the invention of computers -- in 1952 Emil
Artin had John von Neumann perform an extensive calculation relating
to elliptic curves on the IAS MANIAC computer. The fundamental papers
of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer in 1965, which gave rise to the
Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, were buttressed with extensive
machine computation. There has been extensive interplay between theory
and computation relating to ranks of elliptic curves, Heegner points,
Galois representations, Sato-Tate distributions, and many other areas.

The year 1985 marks the beginning of a 25 year period in which a
number of influential papers initiated a fundamental connection
between elliptic curves, cryptology and the theory of computation.

* Rene Schoof about fast algorithms for counting points on elliptic
  curves over finite fields
* Hendrik Lenstra about integer factorization using elliptic curves
* Victor Miller and Neal Koblitz about the security of using elliptic
  curves over finite fields in a Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
* Shafi Goldwasser and Joe Kilian about primality proving using elliptic
  curves
* Len Adleman and Ming-Deh Huang about primality proving using abelian
  varieties
* Oliver Atkin and Francois Morain about primality proving using elliptic
  curves.

Since 1997 there has been an annual workshop on Elliptic Curve
Cryptography. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the above papers we
will hold a full week meeting intermixing talks which are concerned
with the applications of elliptic curves in cryptography and other
fundamental results concerning elliptic curves and computation.

The meeting will be held from Oct 18-22, 2010 at Microsoft Research in
Redmond, Washington, USA.

More information is available online at
	http://2010.eccworkshop.org/

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