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Subject: Number Theory and Cryptography Conference - CANT '97
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Second Announcement

                   Fourth CANT Conference 

              Number Theory and Cryptography 

  University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, December 3-5 1997 


The CANT '97 conference aims to provide an overview of recent 
developments in Computational Number Theory, with an emphasis 
on areas that are applicable to public-key cryptography. 
There will be a number of invited lectures, contributed talks, 
and software demonstrations, including some expository talks 
aimed at a general audience. Graduate students are especially 
welcome. 

The conference is timed to take advantage of the visit of 
Dr. A. Lenstra to the University of Sydney. It is immediately 
preceded by a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the 
death of G. H. Hardy. 

The CANT '97 conference is jointly sponsored by the 
Computational Algebra Group, University of Sydney, and the 
ceNTRe for Number Theory Research, Macquarie University. 

Additional information is available from the conference home page at 
 http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/richardr/CANT97.html


                            Main Talks 
                            ^^^^^^^^^^

 Wieb Bosma              ``Arithmetic Fields''
 (Nijmegen)

 Richard Brent           ``Integer Factorization Algorithms Illustrated
 (ANU)                     by the Factorization of Fermat Numbers''

 George Havas             ``Exact Matrix Algorithms''
 (Queensland)
                               
 David Kohel              ``Computing Modular Curves via Quaternions''
 (NUS, Singapore)
                                
 Arjen Lenstra            ``The General Number Field Sieve in Practice''
 (CitiCorp, New York)
                      
 Reynald Lercier          ``Counting Points on Elliptic Curves
 (CELAR, Rennes)            defined