SECANTS
South of England Computational and Algorithmic Number Theory Seminars

• 11.00-11.30 Coffee
• 11.30-12.30 Peter Bending (Kent) Curves of genus 2 with sqrt{2} multiplication
  
• 13.00-14.00 Lunch
• 14.00-15.00 Thomas Papanikolaou (Bordeaux)
  1. Fast multiprecision evaluation of series of rational numbers
     (joint work with Bruno Haible)
     
  2. Efficient implementation of modular arithmetic for cryptographic applications
  
  
• 15.30-16.30 Zafer Djabri (Kent) Explicit m-descents on elliptic curves