[check this out. -eric] CWI - RUU SYMPOSIA "MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS" In 1993-1994, the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science Amsterdam (CWI) and the University of Utrecht (RUU) are organising a series of symposia on massively parallel computing and applications. This is to announce the third meeting which centres around the theme: COMPUTATIONAL NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY Date: Friday November 26, 1993 Location: CWI, Kruislaan 413, Amsterdam Room: Z011 Program 10.00 - 10.30: Coffee/Tea 10.30 - 10.35: Welcome 10.35 - 11.20: Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) Exhaustive searches, collisions, meet-in-the-middle attacks: a parallel perspective 11.30 - 12.15: Francois Morain (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France) Distributed primality proving 12.15 - 13.30: Lunch break 13.30 - 14.15: Johannes Buchmann (Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany) Factoring with the number field sieve 14.25 - 15.10: Peter L. Montgomery (Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics, Leiden, and CWI Amsterdam) Vectorization of the elliptic curve method 15.10 - 15.30: Tea break 15.30 - 16.15: Henk Boender (RU Leiden, and CWI Amsterdam) Factoring with some variations of the quadratic sieve on the Cray Y-MP4 Dates and themes of the previous meetings: June 4, 1993: Topics in Environmental Mathematics Sept. 24, 1993: Parallel Numerical Algorithms For further information, e.g., about how to reach CWI, contact H.J.J. te Riele (CWI, tel. 020-5924106) If you wish to receive a LaTeX-file of the abstracts of the lectures, send a message to herman@cwi.nl