====== Introduction to Elliptic Curves - Spring Semester 2008 ======
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organizer   Nicolas Macris\\
office      INR 134 \\
phone       38114\\
email       nicolas.macris@epfl.ch\\
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meetings: wednesdays 11h00 - 12h30 in room INR 113\\

===== topic =====
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This semester we will try to learn something about elliptic curves, based on the book (can be consulted in INR 120)
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"Elliptic Curves: Number Theory and Cryptography", by Lawrence Washington\\
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The plan is to cover about half of the book which introduces elliptic curves on finite fields and their applications. We will meet on a weekly basis for presentations on the board by interested participants and assume zero previous knowledge of the subject ! We start on wednesday 5 of march.\\












===== evolving schedule =====
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^ **speaker** ^ ^ **date** ^ ^ **topic** ^
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| Nicolas |   | march 5 |   |//intro and organisation// |
| Amin |   | march 12 |   |//the group law//  |
| Shan yuan |   | march 19 |   |//j invariant //  |
| easter break |   | march 26 |   |// -- //  |
| Satish |   | april 2 |   |// endomorphisms //  |
| Nicolas |   | april 11 (friday at 14h15) |   |// torsion points //  |
| Shrinivas |   | april 16 |   |// Weil pairing //  |
| Mahdi |   | april 23 |   |// Hasse bound //  |
| Iryna |   | april 30 |   |// factoring //  |
| we are in porto |   | may 7 |   |// --- //  |
| Harm |   | may 14 |   |// discrete log //  |
| Peter |   | may 21 |   |// MOV attack //  |
| Emina |   | may 28 |   |// --- //  |
| -- |   | june 4 |   |// --- //  |

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