[grad-students] Thematic Program in Cryptology @ Fields -- stuff relevant to students

[Marcus Emmanuel Barnes]

Some other events at the Fields Institute that may be of interest to
graduate students:
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GRADUATE COURSES STARTING FALL 2006
www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/courses/

     Elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography
     Sept. 11-15, 2006
     Instuctor: Tanja Lange (Technical University of Denmark)

     Quantum Information Theory
     Instructor: Hoi-Kwong Lo (University of Toronto)

     High-speed cryptography
     Oct. 23-26, 2006 and Nov. 6-16, 2006 (tentative)
     Instructor: D. J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago)

     Abelian varieties and Cryptography
     Instructor: Kumar Murty (Toronto)

     Quantum Information Theory, Error-correction, and Cryptography
     Instuctors: Ashwin Nayak and Debbie Leung (University of Waterloo)

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September 18-20, 2006
ALGEBRAIC CURVES IN CRYPTOGRAPHY.
THE 10TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2006)  
**Registration is
required and on a first-come first-serve basis.** Please register at:
www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2006/ecc2006/announcement.html

October 2-6, 2006
QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY AND COMPUTING WORKSHOP
www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/quantum/

October 30- November 3, 2006
COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES ARISING IN ALGORITHMIC NUMBER THEORY AND
CRYPTOGRAPHY
www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/number_theory/

November 27-December 1, 2006
CRYPTOGRAPHY: UNDERLYING MATHEMATICS, PROBABILITY AND FOUNDATIONS
www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/ 
crypto_foundations/

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