Graduate Number Theory Seminar, Winter 2020

$Math Department$

Graduate Number Theory Seminar
Winter 2020

Organizers: David Nguyen and Garo Sarajian

Meets Wednesdays 4-5 pm in South Hall 6617.

This winter, we are reading the book "A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography" by Koblitz (Springer GTM, volume 114).

Date	Speaker	Chapter
January 13	Organizational Meeting
January 22	Garo Sarajian	CH I. Some Topics in Elementary Number Theory
January 29	Marcos Reyes	CH II. Finite Fields and Quadratic Residues CH III. Cryptography
February 5	David Lin	CH IV. Public Key
February 12	Greg McGrath	CH IV. Public Key (cont'd)
February 19	Kathy Merkl	CH V. Primarity and Factoring
February 26	Mulun Yin	CH V. Primarity and Factoring (cont'd)
March 4	David Nguyen	CH VI. Elliptic Curves
March 11	TBD	CH VI. Elliptic Curves (cont'd)