July 24, 2012

Microsoft Research Summer Number Theory Day

MSR Lecture Room C – B99/1919

A day of talks by prominent visiting number theorists relevant to cryptography.

9:00 – 10:00 AM  William Stein, University of Washington
Computing many rational Hilbert modular forms over Q(sqrt(5))

10:00 – 10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:30 AM
Kiran Kedlaya, UC San Diego
The Robbins phenomenon: unexpected numerical stability in p-adic arithmetic

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Alina Bucur, UC San Diego
The distribution of zeroes of the zeta functions of Artin-Schreier covers over finite fields

12:30 – 1:30 PM
Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 PM
Francois Rodier, Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy
Asymptotic nonlinearity of Boolean functions

2:30 – 3:30 PM Sorina Ionica, LORIA
Pairing-based methods for genus 2 curve jacobians with maximal endomorphism ring

3:30 – 4:00 PM
Coffee Break

4:00 – 5:00 PM Benjamin Lundell, Univeristy of Washington
Derivatives of p-adic L-functions