SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

Fields Institute Workshop on New Directions in Cryptography June 25-27, 2008 University of Ottawa	Supported by University of Ottawa
Organizing Committee: Ian Blake (University of Toronto), ifblake<at>comm.utoronto.ca Ali Miri (University of Ottawa), samiri<at>site.uottawa.ca Monica Nevins (University of Ottawa), mnevins<at>uottawa.ca

Overview

Cryptography is a rapidly-evolving area of research in mathematics, whose developments are of critical importance to modern electronic society. It draws its innovations from all areas of pure mathematics, as well as engineering and computer science. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from both academia and industry, with particular emphasis on involving graduate students in the field.
The workshop begins with a pair of mini-courses presenting some of the main themes and ideas in modern cryptography. The second day is devoted to talks on recent works by renowned researchers from academia. The workshop closes on the third day with talks by researchers from industry. Each day will include many opportunities for collaborative work and discussions.

Workshop Format

Mini-courses, one-hour invited lectures, and possibly time for short communications and a discussion of open problems.

Mini-course Lecturers

Due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, Isabelle Déchène will not be
able to give her mini-course. Please find instead:

Ali Miri (University of Ottawa)
Accelerating Scalar Multiplication on Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems

Kenny Paterson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Recent Advances in Identity-based Encryption

Invited Speakers

Phil Eisen, (Cloakware) It's Not the Size of Your Key That Matters, It's How You Use It Evangelos Kranakis, (Carleton) Security Models: Prospects, Perspectives, Directions Kumar Murty, (UToronto) Recent developments in Hash functions Renate Scheidler, (Calgary) Real Hyperelliptic Curves Francesco Sica, (Mount Allison) Complex Double Bases applied to Scalar Multiplication on Algebraic Curves

Doug Stinson, (Waterloo) Recent Results on the Design and Analysis of Manual Authentication Protocols Amr M. Youssef, (Concordia) On Cryptographic Properties of Boolean Functions Rene Struik, (Certicom) Speed-ups of elliptic curve-based schemes Dana Neustadter, (Elliptic Semiconductor) Elliptic Curves over Prime and Binary Fields in Cryptography

Schedule:

The talks will be held in Room A0150, SITE, 800 King Edward Ave.
(Unfortunately Google map can't place the address correctly; please search instead for 801 King Edward Ave, which is across the street; or find SITE at the south end of the main campus on our campus map.)

Wednesday, June 25
	8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00-9:15 Welcome 9:15-10:30 Kenny Paterson, Part I 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-12:00 Kenny Paterson, Part II 12:00-2:00 Lunch 2:00-3:15 Ali Miri, Part I 3:15-3:45 Break 3:45-5:00 Ali Miri, Part I
Thursday, June 26
	9:00-9:50 Kumar Murty 10:00-10:20 Break 10:20-11:10 Renate Scheidler 11:20-12:10 Francesco Sica 12:10-2:00 Lunch 2:00-2:50 Doug Stinson 3:00-3:50 Amr Youssef 4:00-4:20 Break 4:20-5:10 Evangelos Kranakis
Friday, June 27
	8:30-9:20 Opportunities and Challenges with the CSEC 9:30-10:20 Rene Struik 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-11:50 Dana Neustader 12:00-12:50 Phil Eisen 3:00 Boat cruise on the Rideau Canal ($13 per person, sign up at the workshop)

The Ottawa Internation Jazz Festival presents Jazz 08, an immense series of concerts and performances by internationally reknown Jazz artists. The festival takes place from June 20 to July 1, 2008. For more information, including schedules and tickets, please see:
http://www.ottawajazzfestival.com

Workshop Sponsors

This workshop has been made possible by the support of the following. The organizers would like to express their appreciation for this valued support.
* The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences
* The University of Ottawa
* Cloakware
* Certicom

Participant List

Fullname	University Name
Anghel, Catalina	University of Toronto
Balamohan, Balasingham	University of Ottawa
Billig, Yuly	Carleton University
Blake, Ian	University of Toronto
Bradley, David	University of Maine
Burton, Bobbie-Lynn
Cazaubon, Verne	University of Ottawa
Cheng, Y.	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chowdhury, Sadrul	University of Ottawa
Couillard, Bruno	BC5 Technologies, Inc.
Davey, Blair	CSEC
Déchène, Isabelle	University of Ottawa
Eisen, Phil	Cloakware Corporation
Elahi, Tariq
El-Hassan, Fadi	University of Ottawa
Garson, Kathryn	University of Ottawa
Goodman, Jim	Kluless Technologies
Goyette, Richard	SITE, University of Ottawa
Guedes, Gabriel	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Hamdan, Sadek	University of Ottawa
He, Jane	Carleton University
Hinek, Jason	University of Calgary
Jebril, Iqbal	Irbid National University
Joubarne Aubin, Nicole	CSEC
Kane, Amadou	Laval University
Karimianpour, Camelia
Kaur, Manmohan	Benedictine University
Keliher, Liam	Mount Allison University
Kim, Chul	Ryerson University
Knapp, Edward	University of Waterloo
Kranakis, Evangelos	Carleton University
Laishram, Shanta	University of Waterloo
Longa, Patrick	University of Waterloo
Mailloux, Nick	University of Ottawa
Malek, Behzad	University of Ottawa
Mashatan, Atefeh	University of Waterloo
Masuda, Ariane	University of Ottawa
McAfee, Erin	CSEC
McDonald, Daniel	Carleton University
Miri, Ali	University of Ottawa
Mirzaee, Alireza	University of Ottawa
Montcalm, Michael	University of Ottawa
Murty, Vijaya Kumar	University of Toronto
Neustadter, Dana	Elliptic Semiconductor, Inc.
Nevins, Monica	University of Ottawa
Nguyen, Eric	Université de Montréal
Omidi Koma, Behzad	Carleton University
Onat, Ilker	SITE, University of Ottawa
Parri, Jonathan	University of Ottawa
Paterson, Kenny	Royal Holloway, University of London
Poon, Wilson	University of Ottawa
Rahman, Md. Abdur	University of Ottawa
Ratti, Saurabh	University of Ottawa
Roy, Christian	University of Ottawa
Samet, Saeed	University of Ottawa
Savard, Stephen
Scheidler, Renate	University of Calgary
Shah, Jay	Government of Canada
Shapiro, Daniel	University of Ottawa
Sica, Francesco	Mount Allison University - Acecrypt
Sramka, Michal	University of Calgary
Stebila, Douglas	University of Waterloo
Stinson, Douglas	University of Waterloo
Struik, Rene	Certicom Research
Sui, Jiayuan	University of Waterloo
Sutantyo, Daniel	Macquarie University
Swanson, Colleen	University of Waterloo
Szeto, Melodie
Tang, Adrian	University of Calgary
Thareja, Vishal	University of Ottawa
Thomson, David	Carleton University
Tian, Fang	University of Ottawa
Vardomskaya, Tamara	University of Ottawa
Vardomskiy, Stanislav	Carleton University
Walshe, Bridget	CSEC
Wang, Qiang	Carleton University
Weekes, Alex	Carleton University
Xiong, Pulei	University of Ottawa
Yoshida, Kayo	University of Waterloo
Youssef, Amr M.	Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
Zeng, Qingsheng	University of Ottawa

Registration

Registration is free but required. Advance registration is very much appreciated.

Financial Support

Graduate students and recent graduates are strongly encouraged to attend, and to apply for financial support. Applications are to be made on-line. Decisions on funding will be made starting April 1st, 2008. Deadline to apply was March 31/08 but late applications will be accepted up to May 10, 2008 if funds are available.

 

 

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