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 railway 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, with coffee/tea in room 237.

• 11.00-11.30 Arrival and Coffee
• 11.30-12.20 Igor Shparlinski (Macquarie) Non-linear pseudorandom number generators
• 12.20-12.50 Simon Blackburn (Royal Holloway) Predicting the inversive generator
• 12.50-14.30 Lunch
• 14.30-15.20 Tim Browning (Oxford) Rational points on threefolds
• 15.50-16.30 Richard Brent(Oxford) Almost irreducible and almost primitive trinomials