Second International Conference on Mathematical Software
ICMS'2006

Castro Urdiales, SPAIN, September 1-3 2006


Session 6

Title: Methods in Computational Number Theory
Organizers: David Sevilla (dsevilla@cs.concordia.ca)
                       Jaime Gutierrez (jaime.gutierrez@unican.es)
                       



Description:

Number theorists have always made calculations, whether by hand, desk calculator, or computer. In recent years this tendency has extended in many directions, and has been reinforced by interest from other fields
such as computer science, cryptography, and algebraic geometry.

This session will be devoted to the exposition of topics in computational number theory from a theoretical point of view. This includes developments of algorithms and application of theoretical results. Here some topics that we would like to cover:

-Combinatorial and computational number theory

-Computational problems in elliptic curves

-Algorithmic algebraic number theory

-Number-theoretic cryptography

-Function fields and algebraic curves

-Arithmetic geometry.

-Number theory applied to coding theory.

This list of topics is flexible, depending on the contributions received. In each of these areas both practical and theoretical algorithmics will be encouraged.

Organizer's contact data:

David Sevilla

 E-mail: dsevilla@cs.concordia.ca

Postal address:
Dpt. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Concordia University
1455 boul. de Maisonneuve O.
Montréal, QC, H3G 1M8 Canada

Phone:  +1 (514) 848-2424 (ext 8763)
Fax:      


Jaime Gutierrez

E-mail: jaime.gutierrez@unican.es

Postal address:
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Sciences
University of Cantabria
Avda. de los Castros s/n
39005 Santander (Spain)


Phone: +34-942-201523
Fax:      +34-942-201402