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All talks will take place in ICT 122 (Information & Communication Technology Building. The reception and rump session will be in the Escalus Room of MacEwan Hall. Please click here for a campus map).
Monday, August 24:
| TIME | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE | PDF of TALK |
| 9:00-9:50 | Matthew Campagna | Security of compositions with implicit certificate schemes | |
| 9:50-10:20 | Morning Coffee Break | ||
| 10:20-11:10 | Alfred Menezes | Asymmetric Pairings | |
| 11:20-12:10 | David Jao | Boneh-Boyen signatures and the Strong Diffie-Hellman problem | |
| 12:10-2:00 | Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00-2:50 | Vassil Dimitrov | Loading the bases - some open problems associated with the use of multiple-base number systems in ECC | |
| 2:50-3:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| 3:20-4:10 | Chen-Mou Cheng | Computing Scalar Multiplication with Many Cores | |
| 4:20-5:10 | Julio Lopez | Fast Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Pairing Computation for Sensor Networks | |
| 6:00-8:00 | Rump Session and Reception (sponsored by Microsoft Research) | ||
Tuesday, August 25:
| TIME | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE | PDF of TALK |
| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee | ||
| 9:00-9:50 | Dan Bernstein | Post-quantum cryptography | |
| 9:50-10:20 | Morning Coffee Break | ||
| 10:20-11:10 | Daniele Micciancio | On Bounded Distance Decoding, Unique Shortest Vectors, and the Minimum Distance Problem | |
| 11:20-12:10 | Guilhem Castagnos | NICE Cryptanalyses | |
| 12:10-2:00 | Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00-2:50 | Luca De Feo | Isogeny computation in small characteristic | |
| 2:50-3:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| 3:20-4:10 | Eike Kiltz | Encryption from the Diffie-Hellman assumption | |
| 4:20-5:10 | Richard K. Guy | Special Guest Lecture: Number Theory or Numerology? | |
| 6:00 | Banquet at Redwater Grill (sponsored by Certicom Research) | ||
Wednesday, August 26:
| TIME | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE | PDF of TALK |
| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee | ||
| 9:00-9:50 | Andrew Sutherland | Computing modular polynomials with the Chinese Remainder Theorem | |
| 9:50-10:20 | Morning Coffee Break | ||
| 10:20-11:10 | Takakazu Satoh | Generating Genus two Hyperelliptic Curves over Large Characteristic Finite Fields | |
| 11:20-12:10 | Mike Jacobson | Cryptographic Aspects of Real Hyperelliptic Curves | |