AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:42

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday October 25, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Cryptography, I
Room E-228, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Eric Bach, University of Wisconsin-Madison bach@cs.wisc.edu
Rene Peralta, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee peralta@blatz.cs.uwm.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Solution of Polynomial Equations Modulo a Prime.
  A. O. L. Atkin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (927-11-354)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A secure digital signature system with verification ten times faster than RSA
  Daniel J Bernstein*,
  (927-11-65)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A General theory of Codes.
  G. R. Blakley*, Texas A&M University
  I. Borosh, Texas A&M University
  (927-94-353)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the difficulty of comparing cryptosystems.
  Daniel Bleichenbacher*, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
  (927-11-352)

Saturday October 25, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Cryptography, II
Room E-228, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Eric Bach, University of Wisconsin-Madison bach@cs.wisc.edu
Rene Peralta, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee peralta@blatz.cs.uwm.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Analysis of de Rooij's algorithm for the greatest common divisor of $n$ numbers.
  Jeffrey O. Shallit*, University of Waterloo
  (927-11-350)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Trading Time for Space in Prime Number Sieves
  Justin Hockemeyer, Butler University
  Jonathan Paul Sorenson*, Butler University
  (927-68-24)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Factoring Integers with the Quadratic Sieve
  Samuel S Wagstaff, Jr.*, Purdue University
  (927-11-250)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Visual Cryptography Schemes.
  Hao Zheng*, Texas A&M University
  (927-94-362)

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