2001 Seminars

January

• Hyper Bent Functions
  Amr Youssef, University of Waterloo
  Jan 22 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Pseudo-Telepathy and Coloring Graphs
  Viktor Galliard, University of Waterloo
  Jan 29 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• Quantum Computers: Can Shroedinger's Cat Help Us?
  Prof. Chris Monroe, University of Michigan
  Feb 1 (Thursday), 4:00 pm, PHY 145
• Quantum Networks for Concentrating Entanglement
  Phillip Kaye, University of Waterloo
  Feb 5 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Information Leakage of Feistel Ciphers
  Prof. Howard Heys, Memorial University
  Feb 12 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Some thoughts on the theory of cryptographic hash functions
  Prof. Doug Stinson, University of Waterloo
  Feb 19 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Reasoning about Public-Key Certification
  Reto Kohlas, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
  Feb 26 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• A Cryptographic Topic in Japan: CRYPTREC Project
  Tetsuya Izu, University of Waterloo
  Mar 5 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Cryptographic Properties of functions on Alternating Groups
  Prof. John Lawrence, University of Waterloo
  Mar 6 (Tuesday), 1:30 pm, MC 5045
• Explicit arithmetic of Brauer groups
  Kim Nguyen, Universitaet Essen
  Mar 8 (Thursday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Decision Diffie-Hellman and Diffie-Hellman problem on elliptic curves
  Kim Nguyen, Universitaet Essen
  Mar 12 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• Third-order characteristic Sequences and Public-Key Cryptogsystem
  Guang Gong, University of Waterloo
  April 2 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Randomness of Several Elliptic Curve Sequences
  Charles Lam, University of Waterloo
  April 16 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Flexi-Provider - A Crypto Provider for the Java Cryptography Architecture
  Birgit Henhapl, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
  April 30 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• Quantum Lower Bounds
  Ronald de Wolf, CWI and University of Amsterdam
  May 8 (Tuesday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Factoring $N=pq^2$ with the Elliptic Curve Method
  Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
  May 28 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• Generalized Zig-zag Functions and Oblivious Transfer Reductions
  Paolo D'Arco, University of Waterloo
  June 4 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Practical High-Speed Quantum Cryptography
  Gerald Gilbert, The MITRE Corporation
  June 25 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• A Curmudgeon's View of "Provable Security"
  Neal Koblitz, University of Washington
  September 10 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Weil Descent: An update
  Nigel Smart, University of Bristol
  September 13 (Thursday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Chebyshev Optimal Normal Bases
  Aleksandar Jurisic;, Nova Gorica Polytechnic and IMFM
  September 14 (Friday), 3:30 pm, MC 5158

• Asymptotically Fast Regulator Computation in Real Quadratic Fields
  Ulrich Vollmer, Technische Universität Darmstadt
  October 1 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Quantum Information Processing and Linear Optics
  Raymond Laflamme, Dept. of Physics, University of Waterloo

• Quantum Public Key Cryptography and Quantum Computation Cryptography
  Tatsuaki Okamoto, NTT Labs, Japan
  November 1 (Thursday), 2:00 pm, MC 5158
• Introduction to Quantum Computation
  Michele Mosca, Dept. of C&O, University of Waterloo
  November 12 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Generating Large Instances of the Gong-Harn Cryptosystem
  Kenneth Giuliani, Dept. of C&O, University of Waterloo
  November 19 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Title to be announced
  Camille Negrevegne, Los Alamos National Laboratories
  November 26 (Monday), 2:30 pm, MC 5158
• Chastizing the Demons
  José M. Fernandez, Lab. d'Informatique Théorique, Université de Montréal
  November 26 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• Parallel Elliptic Curve Multiplication and its Resistance against Side- Channel Attacks
  Tetsuya Izu, Dept. of C&O, University of Waterloo
  December 3 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136