[iasmath-seminars] Reminder for tonight's Mathematical Conversation

[Anthony Pulido]

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
School of Mathematics
Princeton, NJ 08540

Mathematical Conversations
Friday, October 6

*****Please note that tonight's Mathematical Conversation will be held in the White-Levy Room, where drinks will be available. Harry's Bar is closed tonight.

The White-Levy Room is location "i" on the following map:https://www.ias.edu/files/pdfs/maps/ias-campusmap.pdf

About Mathematical Conversations: We meet in Harry's Bar at 6pm, where free drinks are provided. After 20 minutes, we move to the Dilworth room, where the speaker gives a 20-minute talk, followed by 15 minutes of discussion with the audience. After that we return to the bar for further discussions. Website:https://www.math.ias.edu/math-conversations


Topic: 		Cohomology and cryptography
Speaker: 	Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford University; Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 	6:00pm - 7:00pm/White-Levy Room
Abstract Link:	http://www.math.ias.edu/seminars/abstract?event=133317

The Weil pairing is a bilinear form associated to an algebraic curve. I 
will tell you about it and why it is interesting to cryptographers. Then 
I'll talk about my (completely unsuccessful) attempts to make an 
interesting trilinear analogue.

http://www.math.ias.edu/seminars