From koc@ECE.ORST.EDU Sun Apr  2 17:01:58 2000
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:01:42 -0700
From: Cetin Kaya Koc <koc@ECE.ORST.EDU>
To: ISLMAIL <islmail@security.ece.orst.edu>
Subject: Number Theory Conference in Corvallis - April 15, Saturday


We need to attend this conference. Particularly the talks
by Edlyn Teske  and Neal Koblitz are of interest to us.

Koc


-----------------------
The fourth annual

   PACIFIC NORTHWEST NUMBER THEORY CONFERENCE (PNWNTC IV)

to be held     APRIL 15th, 2000

  at        Oregon State University in Corvallis.




There will be four one-hour talks.  The schedule is:

 9:00 AM  Coffee and refreshments

 9:30 AM  Paula B. Cohen, "Distribution of special points on subvarieties of
                        Shimura varieties and applications"
                   
11:00 AM  Peter Borwein,  "Small Norm Problems of Erd\H{0}s--Littlewood
Type"
                   

 2:00 PM  Edlyn Teske, "Square-root algorithms for the discrete logarithm
                          and related problems"

 3:30 PM  Neal Koblitz, "Recent Attacks on Elliptic Curve Cryptography"
    

 6:30 PM  Dinner at Big River Restaurant.


   All talks will be held in Bexell Hall, Room 207.



A homepage for the conference is located at

     http/ucs.orst.edu/~schmidtt/confHomePage.html
  

The meeting is supported by the Information Security Laboratory (at OSU),
the Number Theory Foundation and the Mathematical Sciences Research
Institute (MSRI).  There will be  NO registration fee.

  
Directions from I-5:
     Take I-5 (from the north or south) until you reach the Highway 34 exit
     which reads "Corvallis / Oregon State University" (Exit number 228). Go
     west on Highway 34 for about 10 miles. This road continues directly
into
     Corvallis. Cross the Willamette River Bridge into town and you will be
on
     Harrison Blvd.  Follow Harrison Blvd (in the left lane) until the
traffic 
     light at 25th St.  Take a LEFT onto 25th.  Follow this a block or so
     and CROSS Monroe Ave, enter and park in the Parking Lot.   (This
parking
     lot requires no permit on the weekend.)   The closest campus road
     parallel to Monroe Ave is Campus Way.  As you face Campus Way, the
     closest building on your LEFT is BEXELL HALL.

  
The Motel Orleans in Corvallis (541-758-9125; 800-626-1900) has set aside
a few rooms at rates of $48 +tax for both single and double rooms.  To
obtain this rate, reserve before April 5th and mention "Number Theory
Conference."  



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The organizing committee:
  
   Joe Buhler  (jpb@msri.org)
   Tom Schmidt (toms@math.orst.edu)