MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM          

A special afternoon of Colloquia - to mark the award to Cliff Cocks

of an Honorary Degree by the University

 

Monday February 18, 2008. SM2 Lecture Theatre

 

  14:30 Jon Keating and Elmer Rees (Bristol)  

  OPENING REMARKS

  14:35 Nigel Smart (Bristol)  

  PROVING SECURITY OF ENCRYPTION

 

  15:20 TEA

  15:50 Cliff Cocks (GCHQ)

 

  PKC[1]

 

  16:05 Roger Heath-Brown (Oxford)

 

  COUNTING SOLUTIONS OF DIOPHANTINE EQUATIONS

 

  16:50 – 19:00 RECEPTION IN ROYAL FORT HOUSE

 



[1] Public Key Cryptography