MAGMA 2006 - SCHEDULE OF TALKS

Sunday 30 July -- Wednesday 2 August

Technische Universität Berlin

Abstracts are provided here.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Room 1028 (building H) Room 1028 (building H) Room 1028 (building H) Room 2032 (building H)
9:15 - 10:15

Richard Brent

Using Magma to find good xorshift random number generators

Slides

Frederik Vercauteren

The number field sieve in the medium prime case

Slides

Gabi Nebe

Lattices and spherical designs

Slides

Antoine Joux

The function field sieve in medium characteristic

Slides

10:15 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:25 Jasper Scholten

Cover attacks on the discrete logarithm problem on curves

Markus Grassl

Finding equiangular lines in complex space

Slides

Andreas Previtali

Irreducible constituents of monomial representations

Slides

Florian Hess

Computational aspects of pairings

Slides

11:30 - 11:55 Reinier Bröker

Constructing elliptic curves for cryptography

Tobias Beck

Computational formal resolution of surfaces in P^3

Talk

Sergei Haller

Groups of Lie type in Magma

12:00 - 12:30 Mike Harrison

TUTORIAL: Cryptographic applications of curves in Magma

Allan Steel

TUTORIAL: Fundamentals of commutative algebra in Magma

Demo file

Steve Donnelly

TUTORIAL: Descent on elliptic curves in Magma

Demo file

Sebastian Freundt

QaoS

12:30 - 1:00 Osmanbey Uzunkol

Recent Developments in KASH

Slides

1:00 - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 2:55 Yuri Tschinkel

Algebraic varieties over small fields

Slides

Jordi Quer

Fields of definition of building blocks

Slides

Gavin Brown

Analysing 3-folds that contain a plane

Slides

Alvaro Nolla de Celis

Mckay correspondence and Hilbert schemes

3:00 - 3:25 Enrique González Jiménez

Equations for modular curves

Slides

Daniel Ryder

Elliptic and K3 fibrations birational to Fano varieties

Handwritten slides (jpg)

Jürgen Klüners

Computing Galois groups

Slides

3:30 - 3:55 Robert Vollmert

Computation in convex geometry with applications

Slides

Damien Stehlé

The new LLL in Magma

Talk in ps

Talk in pdf

Stephen Coughlan

Free resolutions and birational geometry

Slides

4:00 - 4:45 Afternoon Tea
4:45 - 5:45 John Voight

Computational aspects of Shimura curves

Tom Fisher

Using descent calculations to find points on elliptic curves

Kamal Khuri-Makdisi

Fast algorithms for Picard groups of general curves


Last modified on 13 July 2006 by donnelly@maths.usyd.edu.au