Time+Place: Thursday 29/03/2007 14:30 Room 337-8 Taub Bld.
Title: Playing "Hide-and-Seek" in Finite Fields: Hidden Number Problem and Its Applications
Speaker: Igor Shparlinski http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~igor
Affiliation: Macquarie University
Host: Michael Kaminski

Abstract:

A survey will be given of recent results on the hidden number problem
introduced by Boneh and Venkatesan in 1996 and its numerous
generalizations. We also describe several cryptographic and computer
science applications and outline some possible directions for further
research.