SECANTS
South of England Computational and Algorithmic Number Theory Seminars

The college is on the A30, about a mile southwest of Egham and the M25. The nearest BR station is Egham (on the Waterloo-Reading line). It is about a 30min walk up the hill from the station. Or catch buses #43, 41, 441, 500 from Egham to Royal Holloway. For further details see the RHBNC web pages.

The lectures will be held in room 219 of the McCrea building.

• 11.00-11.30 Arrival and Coffee
• 11.30-12.30 Florian Hess (Bristol) Algorithms for curves over finite fields and applications to cryptography and coding theory
  
• 12.45-13.45 Lunch
• 14.00-15.00 Alan Lauder (Oxford) Counting points on varieties over finite fields
  
• 15.30-16.30 Richard Pinch (Cheltenham) Carmichael numbers with three prime factors