Workshop on Finite Fields, Combinatorics and Cryptographical Applications

(Vista aérea da UFSC – Campus Florianópolis – Foto: Jair Quint/Agecom/UFSC)

This workshop will focus on the interplay between finite fields, combinatorics and cryptography.

All talks will be held at: Auditório do INE, UFSC.
See: abstract of the talks.

Wednesday, April 1

9:15 Meet and greet
Opening Remarks: Ricardo Felipe Custódio.
9:30-10:30 Lucia Moura (Univ. of Ottawa): Variable Strength Covering Arrays and Software Testing Applications
10:30-11:15 Thaís Bardini Idalino (UFSC): Using Combinatorial Group Testing to Solve Security Issues
11:15-11:30 coffee break
11:30-12:00 Lucas Perin (UFSC): Low Complexity Cube Root Computation over F_3^m using Polynomial Basis
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Juliano Bandeira Lima (UFPE): Trigonometry over Finite Fields: Theoretical Aspects and Application Scenarios
14:30-16:00 Meet and work at LabSEC-INE-UFSC.
17:00-on: party at the Moura-Panario's

Thursday, April 2

Morning: meet and work at LabSEC-INE-UFSC.
11:45-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Daniel Panario (Carleton Univ.): Open Problems for Polynomials over Finite Fields
14:00-15:00 Rodrigo dos Santos Veloso Martins (UFRJ): On the Heuristic of Approximating Polynomials over a Finite Field by Random Mappings
15:00-15:30 coffee break
15:30-16:30 Claudio Qureshi (UNICAMP): Redei Actions on Finite Fields
16:30-17:30 Alfredo Viola (Univ. de La Republica, Uruguay): Correlation - Immune Boolean Functions and Applications to Cryptography.
17:30-on: Closure and happy-hour farewell around campus.

Ricardo Felipe Custódio, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Lucia Moura, University of Ottawa, Canada
Daniel Panario, Carleton University, Canada

	Projeto: Pesquisador Visitante Especial, CAPES, Ciência sem fronteiras
	Laboratório de Segurança em Computação, UFSC
	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina