International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields

WAIFI 2016

Program of WAIFI 2016

This is the preliminary schedule of all talks. A printed booklet containing all abstracts of the talks and accepted papers will be available for each participant. The accepted papers will be collected in the pre-proceedings and will be available on a password protected part of the conference website.

Wednesday July 13

8.30 -- 9.20: Registration

9.20 -- 9.30: Opening of the conference

9.30 -- 10.30: Razvan Barbulescu (invited talk), A brief overview on pairings

10.30 -- 11.00: Coffee break

11.00 -- 12.30: Session I: Elliptic Curves

• 11.00 -- 11.30: Reza Rezaeian Farashahi and Seyed Gholamhossein Hosseini, Differential Addition on Binary Elliptic Curves
• 11.30 -- 12.00: Loubna Ghammam and Emmanuel Fouotsa, Adequate Elliptic Curve for Computing the Product of n Pairings
• 12.00 -- 12.30: László Mérai, On pseudorandom properties of certain sequences of points on elliptic curves

12.30 -- 14.30: Lunch break

14.30 -- 15.30: Session II: Applications

• 14.30 -- 15.00: Richard Hofer and Arne Winterhof, Linear Complexity and Expansion Complexity of Some Number Theoretic Sequences
• 15.00 -- 15.30: Masaaki Homma and Seon Jeong Kim, A bound for the number of lines lying on a non-singular surface in 3-space over a finite field

15.30 -- 16.00: Coffee break

16.00 -- 17.00: Session III: Irreducible polynomials

• 16.00 -- 16.30: Giacomo Micheli, Andrea Ferraguti and Reto Schnyder, sets of irreducible polynomials closed by composition
• 16.30 -- 17.00: Akihiro Munemasa and Hiroko Nakamura, A note on the Brawley-Carlitz theorem on irreducibility of composed products of polynomials over finite fields

Thursday July 14

9.30 -- 10.30: Simeon Ball (invited talk), Extending short linear MDS codes to long ones

10.30 -- 11.00: Coffee break

11.00 -- 12.30: Session IV: Cryptography and Boolean Functions

• 11.00 -- 11.30: Selçuk Kavut, Subhamoy Maitra and Ferruh Özbudak, A super-set of Patterson-Wiedemann functions -- upper bounds and possible nonlinearities
• 11.30 -- 12.00: Ayhan Coşgun and Ferruh Özbudak, A Correction and Improvements of some Recent Results on Walsh Transforms of Gold Type and Kasami-Welch Type Functions
• 12.00 -- 12.30: Quentin Alamélou, Olivier Blazy, Stéphane Cauchie and Philippe Gaborit, A Practical Group Signature Scheme based on Rank Metric

12.30 -- 14.30: Lunch break

14.30 -- 15.30: Session V: Applications to Cryptography

• 14.30 -- 15.00: James Davenport, Christophe Petit and Benjamin Pring, A Generalized Successive Resultants Algorithm
• 15.00 -- 15.30: Thierry Mefenza and Damien Vergnaud, Distribution and Polynomial Interpolation of the Dodis-Yampolskiy Pseudo-Random Function

15.30 -- 16.00: Coffee break

16.00 -- 17.00: Session VI: Boolean Functions

• 16.00 -- 16.30: Jean-Pierre Flori, A conjecture about Gauss sums and bentness of binomial Boolean functions
• 16.30 -- 17.00: Thor Martinsen, Wilfried Meidl and Pantelimon Stanica, Generalized bent functions and their Gray images

19.00 Conference dinner

Friday July 15

9.30 -- 10.30: Swastik Kopparty (invited talk), Finite fields, randomness and complexity

10.30 -- 11.00: Coffee break

11.00 -- 12.30: Session VII: Cryptography

• 11.00 -- 11.30: Thomas Plantard and Jean-Marc Robert, Enhanced Digital Signature using RNS Digit Exponent Representation
• 11.30 -- 12.00: Angshuman Karmakar, Sujoy Sinha Roy, Frederik Vercauteren and Ingrid Verbauwhede, Efficient Finite Field Multiplication for Isogeny Based Post Quantum Cryptography
• 12.00 -- 12.30: Stjepan Picek, Bohan Yang and Nele Mentens, A Search Strategy to Optimize the Affine Variant Properties of S-boxes

12.30 -- 14.30: Lunch break

14.30 -- 16.00: Session VIII: Block codes

• 14.30 -- 15.00: Ferdinando Zullo, Codes arising from incidence matrices of points and hyperplanes in PG(n,q)
• 15.00 -- 15.30: Peter Vandendriessche, Sunflowers and Primitive SCIDs
• 15.30 -- 16.00: Refia Aksoy and Suat Karadeniz, Constructing Hermitian Self-Dual Codes over F₂+vF₂

16.00 -- 16.10: Closing ceremony

16.10 -- 16.40: Farewell coffee/drink