AMS Special Session on Cryptography and Number Theory

AMS Special Session on
Cryptography and Computational and Algorithmic Number Theory
Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio
September 21-23, 2001

Times with an asterisk (*) are talks that were moved. All cancelled talks have been removed from the schedule.

9:00 a.m.
Conditional and Unconditional Fundamental Unit Computation in Real Quadratic Fields.
Michael J. Jacobson, Jr.*, University of Manitoba
Hugh C. Williams, University of Calgary
(969-11-181)
9:30 a.m.
Recent results on the computation of zeta values at negative integers.
Joshua R Holden*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
(969-11-168)
10:00 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m.*
On fixed points for discrete logarithms.
Mariana Campbell, University of California, Berkeley
Carl Pomerance*, Bell Laboratories
(969-11-179)
11:00 a.m.
On the iteration of certain quadratic maps over $GF(p)$.
Troy MJ Vasiga*, University of Waterloo
Jeffrey O Shallit, University of Waterloo
(969-11-74)

3:00 p.m.*
Is there a shortage of primes for cryptography?
Samuel S Wagstaff*, Purdue University
(969-11-73)
3:30 p.m.*
Virtual logarithms.
Oliver A Schirokauer*, Oberlin College
(969-11-213)
4:00 p.m.
Elliptic curve cryptography: the case of NIST P-224.
Daniel J. Bernstein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(969-11-148)