Joint Colloquium: Tomato Packing and Lettuce-Based Crypto

Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Title: Tomato Packing and Lettuce-Based Crypto

Speaker(s):

Anton Mosunov & Luis Antonio Ruiz 

Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Location: MC 5501

Abstract

Lettuce is good for you. Lattices are good for humanity. We are going to present some nutritious facts about lattices and convince you that they are good for your mathematical diet. Anton will explain the importance of lattices in the tomato/orange/sphere packing problem, and Antonio will show you that many portions of lattices a day may keep you safe from quantum hackers.