Conference on Mathematics of Cryptography

August 31-September 3, 2015
at the University of California, Irvine

***** Videos and slides will eventually be posted on this page. *****

Schedule:
Monday August 31
8:30 Shuttle from Wyndham Hotel
9:00-9:30 Refreshments
9:30-10:45 Daniele Micciancio giving an overview of lattice based cryptography and open questions
11:15-12 Dan Boneh on multilinear maps and open questions
12-2 Lunch
2-3:05 Kristin Lauter on attacks on Ring-LWE
3:35-4:50 Jeff Hoffstein on Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption via Number Fields and Finite Fields
4:55-5:10 Andrew Pollington on SaTC and other NSF opportunities
5:30-7 Welcome Picnic
7:15-8:30 Open Problems session run by Daniele Micciancio
8:30 Shuttle to Wyndham Hotel
   
Tuesday September 1
8:30 Shuttle from Wyndham Hotel
9-9:30 Refreshments
9:30-10:30 Koji Nuida on a proposal for using non-abelian groups to construct a Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme   slides
10:45-12:15 Antonio Nicolosi on Cryptography via Burnside Groups   slides
12:15-12:30 Group Photo
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:45 Dan Boneh and Craig Gentry on applications of non-abelian groups, FHE, and multilinear maps
3:45+ Travel to Balboa Peninsula
5:30-7:30 Sunset Cruise (with pizza) in Newport Beach
   
Wednesday September 2
8:30 Shuttle from Wyndham Hotel
9-9:30 Refreshments
9:30-10:30 Léo Ducas on recovering short generators of principal ideals   slides
11-12 Chris Peikert on recovering short generators of principal ideals   slides
12:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-3:45 Oded Regev on an algorithm for the Shortest Vector Problem   pdf slides   Powerpoint slides
4:05-5:40 Stacey Jeffery on quantum homomorphic encryption
6 Dinner
6:40-8 Open Problems sessions
8 Shuttle to Wyndham Hotel
   
Thursday September 3
8:30 Shuttle from Wyndham Hotel
9-9:30 Refreshments
9:30-10:40 Mariana Raykova on attacks on multilinear maps   slides
11-12 Kristin Lauter on parameters for homomorphic encryption
12-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Ted Chinburg on capacity theory and cryptography   slides
2:45-3:30 Craig Gentry on Open Problems
4 and 5:30 Shuttles to Wyndham Hotel
(optional) For anyone sticking around, there's a First Thursdays Art Walk in the evening in Laguna Beach

Location: Natural Sciences II, Room 1201