Workshop on Arithmetic Geometry

On 22 and 23 January 2008 a workshop on Arithmetic Geometry took place at the Institute fuer Experimentelle Mathematik  (IEM) in Essen.

This workshop was dedicated to recent results and an exchange of ideas in Arithmetic Geometry with a special focus on Galois representations and modular forms.

Organisers were G. Frey and G. Wiese.

Prof. Dr. Frey gave a talk called "Hurwitz Spaces Related to Curves of Genus 2 with Elliptic Differentials"

As a member of the Institute fuer Experimentelle Mathematik I participated to the workshop.

I took some photos:

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.

9th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2005)

ECC 2005 is the ninth 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 curve-based 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, quantum key distribution, AES, implementation issues, and deployments (e.g., cryptography for travel documents).

The workshop took place September 19, 20 & 21, 2005 at the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen.

There was also a summer school on ECC the week before.

I had the chance to participate in both events.

Number Fields and Curves over Finite Fields (Anogia, 23-29 July, 2005) : Euroconference in Mathematics

Anogia Algorithmica ’05

I attended the workshop on open problems in algorithmics “Anogia Algorithmica ’05” from 30th May to 2nd June 2005 that was held at the Anogia Academic Village in Crete. 

I full list of participants can be found here.