SECANTS
South of England Computational and Algorithmic Number Theory Seminars

Seventeenth Meeting
18 May 2002
Merchant Venturers Building, Bristol

The lectures will be held in Room MVB 1.11a of the Merchant Venturers Building of the University of Bristol.

PROGRAMME

• 11.00-11.30 Arrival and Coffee
• 11.30-12.30 Kim Nguyen (Philips Semiconductors, Hamburg) Explicit arithmetic of Brauer groups - on cryptographic and arithmetic discrete logarithms
  
• 12.45-13.45 Lunch
• 14.00-15.00 Tom Fisher (Cambridge) Invariants for the elliptic normal quintic
  
• 15.30-16.30 Nelson Stephens (Goldsmiths) Somos and elliptic divisibility sequences
  

(The ordering of speakers is clear if one considers initial letters of surnames.)

• Map of Bristol Region
  The University is in the centre of town.
• The University Precinct
  The MVB building is on Woodland Road, the Queens Building is on University Walk.