AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:29

2001 Fall Central Section Meeting
Columbus, OH, September 21-23, 2001
Meeting #969

• Friday September 21, 2001, 1:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Cryptography and Computational and Algorithmic Number Theory, I
  UH 0047, University Hall (UH)
  Organizers:
  Eric Bach, University of Wisconsin-Madison bach@cs.wisc.edu
  Jonathan Sorenson, Butler University sorenson@butler.edu
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Some Recent Results on Probable Prime Testing.
    Siguna M. Mueller*, University of Klagenfurt
    (969-11-215)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Definite quadratic forms over $\Bbb F_q[x]$.
    Larry J Gerstein*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (969-11-107)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On fixed points for discrete logarithms.
    Mariana Campbell, University of California, Berkeley
    Carl Pomerance*, Bell Laboratories
    (969-11-179)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Virtual logarithms.
    Oliver A Schirokauer*, Oberlin College
    (969-11-213)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On group order distributions for abelian varieties of low dimension.
    Annegret Weng*, Institut fuer Experimentelle Mathematik
    (969-11-193)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Products of like-indexed terms in two binary recurrences.
    Florian Luca, Unidad Morelia
    Gary Walsh*, University of Ottawa
    (969-11-44)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Construction of elliptic curves over finite fields with known number of points.
    Amod Agashe, University of Texas, Austin
    Kristin E. Lauter*, Microsoft Research
    Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Microsoft Research
    (969-11-232)
• Saturday September 22, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Cryptography and Computational and Algorithmic Number Theory, II
  UH 0047, University Hall (UH)
  Organizers:
  Eric Bach, University of Wisconsin-Madison bach@cs.wisc.edu
  Jonathan Sorenson, Butler University sorenson@butler.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some Computational Results Concerning Yokoi's Conjecture.
    Jozsef Beck, Rutgers University
    Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
    Hugh C Williams*, University of Calgary
    (969-11-182)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Conditional and Unconditional Fundamental Unit Computation in Real Quadratic Fields.
    Michael J. Jacobson, Jr.*, University of Manitoba
    Hugh C. Williams, University of Calgary
    (969-11-181)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Recent results on the computation of zeta values at negative integers.
    Joshua R Holden*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (969-11-168)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Unit Computation in Purely Cubic Function Fields.
    Yoonjin Lee, University of Delaware
    Renate Scheidler*, University of Calgary
    (969-11-167)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the iteration of certain quadratic maps over $GF(p)$.
    Troy MJ Vasiga*, University of Waterloo
    Jeffrey O Shallit, University of Waterloo
    (969-11-74)
• Saturday September 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Cryptography and Computational and Algorithmic Number Theory, III
  UH 0047, University Hall (UH)
  Organizers:
  Eric Bach, University of Wisconsin-Madison bach@cs.wisc.edu
  Jonathan Sorenson, Butler University sorenson@butler.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ranks of quadratic twists of elliptic curves.
    Alice Silverberg*, Ohio State University
    (969-11-203)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Solving elliptic curve discrete logarithm problems using Weil descent.
    Michael J Jacobson, University of Manitoba
    Alfred J Menezes, University of Waterloo
    Andreas Stein*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (969-94-187)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Elliptic curve cryptography: the case of NIST P-224.
    Daniel J. Bernstein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (969-11-148)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Analysis of the GHS Weil Descent Attack on the ECDLP over Characteristic Two Finite Fields of Compostite Degree.
    Markus Maurer, University of Waterloo
    Alfred J Menezes, Certicom Research & University of Waterloo
    Edlyn E Teske*, University of Waterloo
    (969-11-115)
• Sunday September 23, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Cryptography and Computational and Algorithmic Number Theory, IV
  UH 0047, University Hall (UH)
  Organizers:
  Eric Bach, University of Wisconsin-Madison bach@cs.wisc.edu
  Jonathan Sorenson, Butler University sorenson@butler.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computations Related to Catalan's Conjecture.
    Jon Grantham*, IDA/CCS
    Ferrell Wheeler, IDA/CCS
    (969-11-217)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Use of homomorphisms in cryptosystems.
    Jee H Koh*, Indiana University
    (969-11-139)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Local Zeta functions, Trees and One-Way Functions.
    W. A. Zuniga-Galindo*, Barry University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
    (969-11-46)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Is there a shortage of primes for cryptography?
    Samuel S Wagstaff*, Purdue University
    (969-11-73)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion