Program

The conference begins at tuesday morning and ends at friday noon and is located in auditorium at Quantum, the building of physics department at University of Turku.

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program as pdf

Tuesday (8.5.)

9.00 – 10.00
Registration and coffee
10.00 – 11.00
Alf van der Poorten:
Hyperelliptic curves, continued fractions, and Somos sequences
11.00 – 11.30
Chris Smyth:
Finding maximal torsion cosets on varieties
11.30 – 12.00
Nadya Markin:
Galois Groups with Minimal Ramification
12.00 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00
Tanja Lange:
Fast scalar multiplication on elliptic curves
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee
15.30 – 16.00
Richard Pinch:
The Carmichael numbers up to 1021
16.00 – 16.45
Katherine Stange:
Elliptic nets and points on elliptic curves

Wednesday (9.5.)

9.00 – 10.00
Henri Cohen:
On the generalized Fermat equation axp+byp+czp=0
10.00 – 10.30
Tuomas Hakkarainen:
On the computation of the class numbers of real abelian fields
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee
11.00 – 12.00
Eric Bach:
Sums Over Primes
12.00 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00
Pär Kurlberg:
Lower bounds on the period of some pseudorandom number generators
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee
15.30 – 16.00
Anne-Maria Ernvall-Hytönen:
Some topics concerning the RSA system with key splitting
16.00 – 16.30
Willemien Ekkelkamp:
The role of semismooth numbers in factoring large numbers

Thursday (10.5.)

9.00 – 10.00
Nitin Saxena:
Primality Testing
10.00 – 10.30
Mika Hirvensalo:
How to Compute the First Digit of Fibonacci Numbers in Polynomial Time
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee
11.00 – 12.00
Joachim von zur Gathen:
Fast arithmetic: tiger in your tank
12.00 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00
Paul Zimmermann:
How Fast Can We Multiply Over GF(2)[x]?
Time announced later
Conference dinner

Friday (11.5.)

9.00 – 10.00
Yuri Matiyasevich:
Riemann's zeta function: Some Computations and Conjectures
10.00 – 10.30
Richard Pinch:
Absolute quadratic pseudoprimes
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee
11.00 – 12.00
Tanguy Rivoal:
Multiple hypergeometric series and linear forms in multiple zeta values
12.00 – 14.00
LUNCH