Speaker: Daniele Micciancio
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Title: Lattices and Cryptography
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Abstract:
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In this talk I will give a brief introduction to the areas of 
cryptography and point lattices. Cryptography's main goal is
to make computer systems secure against malicious attacks.
Since no system can be proved secure in an absolute sense, 
modern cryptography attempts to build systems that are  
as hard to break as solving some mathematical problem which is 
believed to be extremely hard. Most hard problems used to build 
cryptographic functions come from number theory. (The typical problem 
being integer factorization.) The study of lattices is a different 
area of mathematics that also offers many hard computational problems,
potentially useful for their cryptographic applications.
This presentation won't be neither a general introduction to 
cryptography, nor to the mathematics of lattices.
Rather, it will give a brief introduction to both areas focusing 
on how lattice problems can be used to solve certain problems 
in cryptography.
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No prior knowledge about cryptography or point 
lattices is assumed.