Workshop on Elliptic Curve Computation (ECC 2010)

In 18-22 October 2010 I visited Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington to participate in Workshop on Elliptic Curve and Computation.

As the official press release states: "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 2010 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."

I received a full scholarship (fees, tickets, stay, etc.) to participate to the Workshop.

 

13th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2009)

ECC 2009 is the 13th in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. Over the past years the ECC conference series has broadened its scope beyond elliptic curve cryptography and now covers a wide range of areas within modern cryptography. For instance, past ECC conferences included presentations on hyperelliptic curve cryptography, pairing-based cryptography, side-channel attacks, voting protocols, quantum key distribution, AES, hash functions, and implementation issues.

This year the Workshop was hosted by The University of Calgary, August 24-26, 2009 at Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

I stayed at Travelodge (located in Motel Village, near the University of Calgary) 2227 Banff Trail NW.

I also participated to the Elliptic Curve Cryptography Summer School that was held the week before the ECC 2009 Workshop. The summer school ran from August 19 until August 22.

The scholarship committee offereed me  my accommodations for the duration of both events and the registration fees. The travel expences were coverd by the University of Oldenburg.

I have been to almost all EC Workshops since 2004 till this one.

12th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2008)

ECC 2008 is the 12th in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas.

This year the Workshop was held September 22-24, 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands and was as proceeded by a summer school on Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography the week before. I spent 6 days in the Netherlands.

I had the chance to attend the summer school and tthe main Workshop.

As the press release states:

Over the past years the ECC conference series has broadened its scope beyond elliptic curve cryptography and now covers a wide range of areas within modern cryptography. For instance, past ECC conferences included presentations on hyperelliptic curve cryptography, pairing-based cryptography, side-channel attacks, voting protocols, quantum key distribution, AES, hash functions, and implementation issues. At the same time ECC continues to be the premier conference on elliptic curve cryptography. It is hoped that ECC 2008 will further our mission of encouraging and stimulating research on the security and implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems and related areas, and encouraging collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers in the academic, industry and government sectors

11th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography 2007 (ECC 2007) + Tutorial on ECC and HCC

ECC 2007 is the eleventh in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. 

This year it was hosted at the Claude Shannon Institute for Discrete Mathematics, Coding and Cryptography at University College Dublin, Ireland.

As the press release states:

Over the past years the ECC conference series has broadened its scope beyond elliptic curve cryptography and now covers a wide range of areas within modern cryptography. For instance, past ECC conferences included presentations on hyperelliptic curve cryptography, pairing-based cryptography, side-channel attacks, voting protocols, quantum key distribution, AES, hash function, implementation issues, and deployments.

At the same time ECC continues to be the premier conference on elliptic curve cryptography. It is hoped that ECC 2007 will further our mission of encouraging and stimulating research on the security and implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems and related areas, and encouraging collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers in the academic, industry and government sectors.

I received a scholarship from the organisers and I had the chance to attend Tutorial on Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography 2007 which was held September 3-4, 2007, at the University College Dublin. and participate at the 11th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography 2007 (ECC 2007) that took place September 5-7, 2007 at the same place.