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.
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."
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.
