From: jet@nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 14:32:41 PST
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Subject: Parallel Computational Number Theory and Cryptography Symposium
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CWI - RUU SYMPOSIA "MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS"

In 1993-1994, the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science Amsterdam (CWI)
and the University of Utrecht (RUU) are organising a series of symposia
on massively parallel computing and applications. 

This is to announce the third meeting which centres around the theme: 

          COMPUTATIONAL NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY

Date:     Friday November 26, 1993
Location: CWI, Kruislaan 413, Amsterdam
Room:     Z011

Program

10.00 - 10.30:  Coffee/Tea
10.30 - 10.35:  Welcome
10.35 - 11.20:  Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
                Exhaustive searches, collisions, meet-in-the-middle attacks:
                a parallel perspective               
11.30 - 12.15:  Francois Morain (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
                Distributed primality proving
12.15 - 13.30:  Lunch break
13.30 - 14.15:  Johannes Buchmann (Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany)
                Factoring with the number field sieve
14.25 - 15.10:  Peter L. Montgomery (Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics, Leiden,
                and CWI Amsterdam)
                Vectorization of the elliptic curve method
15.10 - 15.30:  Tea break
15.30 - 16.15:  Henk Boender (RU Leiden, and CWI Amsterdam)
                Factoring with some variations of the quadratic sieve
                on the Cray Y-MP4

Dates and themes of the previous meetings:
June   4, 1993: Topics in Environmental Mathematics 
Sept. 24, 1993: Parallel Numerical Algorithms 

For further information, e.g., about how to reach CWI, contact H.J.J. te Riele 
(CWI, tel. 020-5924106)
If you wish to receive a LaTeX-file of the abstracts of the lectures,
send a message to herman@cwi.nl