Events

Dr. Rainer Steinwandt, Florida Atlantic University

Abstract

Subgroups of elliptic curves over binary fields are a popular mathematical platform to implement cryptographic primitives and protocols. Using Shor's algorithm to tackle the discrete logarithm problem in such groups leads to the question of efficiently implementing the underlying group arithmetic on a quantum computer.

Adam Paetznick, IQC

Michal Bajcsy, Stanford University

George Noid, Indiana University

Sergey Bravyi, IBM Research

Abstract

Richard Feynman is known for his quote "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." In this talk I will establish a weaker result, namely "to fully understand something quantum, one has to at least know what the classical equivalent of it is."

Dan Hussey, National Institute of Standards and Technology