Spring School on Lattice-Based Cryptography
School Overview
The Spring school will take place in March (20-24th), 2017 at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. It aims at covering lattices, their role in modern cryptography, and their potential use in the post-quantum era. Namely, it will cover the basics of lattices, "hard" lattice problems and the reductions between them, and advanced lattice-based cryptography constructions (e.g. Fully Homomorphic Encryption). The school will also have practical sessions using SageMath.
Target Audience: Graduate students and Postdocs.
Location: Lecture Rooms L1 (Mon/Tues) /L3 (Wed-Fri), Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Site, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG.
Speakers
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Martin Albrecht (Royal Holloway, University of London)
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Léo Ducas (CWI, Amsterdam, the Netherland)
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Craig Gentry (IBM T.J.Watson Research Center)
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Phong Nguyen (Inria (France) and CNRS/JFLI/University of Tokyo (Japan))
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Richard Pinch (GCHQ)
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Nigel Smart (University of Bristol)
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Dan Shepherd (GCHQ)
Programme
Programme for Oxford LBC School .pdf
Day-1:
- Introduction by Ali El Kaafarani
- LATTICES AND CRYPTOGRAPHY IN A POST-QUANTUM WORLD.pdf by Richard Pinch
- Overview of Lattice-Based Cryptography.pdf by Leo Ducas
- Intro to lattices, NTRU, Ring-LWE.pptx by Dan Shepherd (this file contains all his lectures during the school!)
Day-2:
- Ring-LWE- An Efficient PQC Public Key Encryption Scheme.pdf by Nigel Smart
Day-3:
- lattice-reduction-and-attacks.pdf by Martin Albrecht
- Enumeration by Pruning.pdf by Phong Nguyen
- sage-introduction.pdf by Martin Albrecht
- SageMath Lab-01.pdf by Martin/Leo
Day-4:
- Short Stickelberger Class Relations and Application to Ideal SVP.pdfby Leo Ducas
- Lattice Algorithms- Design, Analysis and Experiments.pdf by Phong Nguyen
- Fully Homomorphic Encryption FHE1.pptx, FHE2.pptx by Craig Gentry
- SageMath lab-02.pdf by Martin/Leo
Day-5
- subfield-attack.pdf by Martin Albrecht
- FHE3.pptx and Cryptographic Program Obfuscation.ppt by Craig Gentry
- Concluding Remarks by Michael Collins
Registration
Early registration deadline is the 15th of December. Regular fees are £150. No fee for Postgraduate students. The fees for participants from industry are £1000.
(NOTE: The event is already fully booked for Postgraduate students!)
You can register here:
http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&…
Accommodation
In general, participants will have to find their own accommodation. They are welcome to book anywhere. For instance, here is a link to the university rooms website; http://www.universityrooms.com/en/city/oxford/home
Bursaries
Available for Doctoral students at UK Universities who register before the 15th of December. The amount is £150 per (UK-based) student.
Expense Claim Form: Fill out the form R12_Expenses_Claim_Form.xlsx , sign it, and send it together with the original receipts to the following address;
Louise Kelly
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG