Conferences, Workshops,
Courses, and Seminars
The four departments of
Mathematics in the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) hold, with the
assistance of the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, a postgraduate program
on Applied Mathematics. Attached to that program a Seminar on Mathematics Applied to
Cryptography is
held. If you want to receive the e-mails with information about
future sessions of our seminar, please send an e-mail to Jorge Villar.
The Summer
School on Provable Security was held in Barcelona in September
7-11, 2009. This activity was partially supported by the E-CRYPT II Network, with the collaboration of the group MAK-UPC.
As a continuation of a series of events on Mathematical Cryptology that
have taken place in the Netherlands and in Spain from 2003, the Spanish
Thematic Network on Mathematics for the Information Society organized
the 2008 International School on Mathematical Cryptology,ISMC 2008 , with the collaboration of the group MAK-UPC.
The IACR International Workshop on Practice and
Theory in Public Key Cryptography PKC 2008 was held at the UPC Campus in Barcelona on March 9-12, 2008. Our
research group was deeply involved in its organization. Carles Padró (UPC) was
the General Chair and Ronald Cramer (CWI Amsterdam & Leiden University) was
the Program Chair. In collaboration with the Centre
de Recerca Matemàtica
(CRM), our group organized the CRM Research Thematic Semester on Contemporary
Cryptology, from March to July 2005. In that period, a number of researchers on
Cryptology visited the CRM and a weekly seminar was held. Besides, the Semester
included also a Seminar on Geometric Methods in Cryptography by Gerhard
Frey and other speakers (March 10-11, 2005) and a Workshop on Mathematical
Problems and Techniques in Cryptology (June 20-22, 2005). More information
in the CRM web page
(follow the link "Research programmes" for the Semester and the link
"Conferences and courses" for the workshop). In the academic year
2003-2004, our seminar included a course entitled Issues
of Provable Security and Efficiency in Cryptographic Constructions, by Professor Rosario Gennaro (T. J. Watson
Research Center, New York) was held from July 1 to July 9, 2004. This course
was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. In collaboration with the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, our group organized the Advanced Course on Contemporary Cryptology,
which was held from February 2 to February 13, 2004. Speakers: Dario Catalano,
Ivan Damgard, Giovanni Di Crescenzo, David Pointcheval and Tsuyoshi Takagi.
Detailed information on this course is given in the CRM web page (follow the link "Conferences and courses"). In the academic year
2002-2003, our seminar included a 20 hours course by Professor Ronald Cramer
entitled Topics in Contemporary Cryptography. This course was supported by the Spanish
Ministry of Education and Science. The group was involved in
the organization of the III Reunión Española de Criptografía,
held in Barcelona in November 1994. Last Update: January 16,
2009
Eurocrypt 2007 was held in Barcelona on May 20-24,
2007. Our research group was deeply involved in its organization. Javier López
(University of Málaga) and Germán Sáez (UPC) were the General Chairs and Moni
Naor (Weizmann Institute of Science) was the Program Chair.
The week before Eurocrypt, the Conference on Cryptology and Digital
Content Security was held at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM). Enric Nart (UAB) and Jorge L.
Villar (UPC) were the co-ordinators of this activity, while the Program
Committee was formed by Ronald Cramer (CWI Amsterdam), Touradj Ebrahimi
(EPFL Lausanne), and Franck Leprévost (Université du Luxembourg). More
information in the CRM web page (follow the link "Conferences and courses").
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