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Owen Sharpe, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Primality Testing and Integer Factorization"

Primality testing and integer factorization are mathematical problems which have occupied number theorists throughout the centuries. They have become very important in the field of cryptography over the last fifty years. We give a brief history of primality testing and integer factorization algorithms, from the sieve of Eratosthenes to the AKS test, and from trial division to Shor's algorithm.

Changho Han, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Periods II: Hodge Theory and K3 Surfaces"

Amanda Petcu, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"An Introduction to Calibrated Geometry"