Events for 02/07/2018 from all calendars

Groups and Dynamics Seminar

Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: BLOC 220

Speaker: Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A&M University

Title: Examples of simple groups of intermediate growth

Abstract: I will describe several explicit examples of simple groups of intermediate growth: groups associated with irrational rotations, a group acting on the Morse-Thue subshift, an embedding of the Grigorchuk group into a simple group of intermediate growth, etc.. Open questions and directions for future research will be also discussed.

AMUSE

Time: 6:00PM - 7:00PM

Location: BLOC 220

Speaker: Dr. Matt Papanikolas, Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics

Title: Survey of elliptic curve cryptography

Abstract: Over the past thirty years it has been established that the theory of elliptic curves could be effectively applied to various cryptographic problems. In this talk I will introduce fundamental results about elliptic curves, with special attention on elliptic curves over finite fields. Then we will survey applications to elliptic curve cryptosystems and prime factorization.