Timetable for Summer School on ECC
Copenhagen, September 12 -16, 2005



All lectures take place in the building 306, Auditorium 38 (ground floor, turn left in entrance hall). For the exercises we have reserved room 92 in building 302 which is a computer room.


Monday
9:00 - 9:30 registration
9:30 - 10:30 Tanja Lange Opening remarks and introduction to cryptography
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00 Peter Beelen Mathematical background on groups, rings and fields
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30Christophe Ritzenthaler Background on p-adic numbers I
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00Christophe Ritzenthaler Background on p-adic numbers II and exercises
Tuesday
9:30 - 10:30 Tanja Lange Background of elliptic curves I
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00Tanja Lange Background of elliptic curves II
12:00 - 13:00Christophe Ritzenthaler Elliptic curves over the complex numbers
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30Christophe Ritzenthaler Background of elliptic curves III
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00 Exercises
Wednesday
9:30 - 10:30Christophe Ritzenthaler Elliptic curves over finite fields
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00Tanja Lange Background of pairings
12:00 - 13:00Tanja Lange Computation of pairings
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
15:00 - 19:30 Excursion
19:30 - Dinner
Thursday
9:30 - 10:30 Tanja Lange Generic attacks on the DLP
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00Tanja Lange Index calculus attacks
12:00 - 13:00Florian Hess Weil descent I
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30Florian Hess Weil descent II
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00 Exercises
Friday
9:30 - 10:30 Tanja Lange Schoof's algorithm
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00Christophe Ritzenthaler Point counting with AGM I
12:00 - 13:00Christophe Ritzenthaler Point counting with AGM II
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 Exercises
15:30 - 16:30 Coffee break and final discussions