A joint CIMPA-ICTP research school on
Lattices and applications to cryptography and coding theory
Saigon University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
August 1st - 12th, 2016


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Courses

Lattices and Geometry of numbers
  • Lattices in Euclidean Space
  • Minkowski's Convex Body Theorem, Minkowski's Theorem on Successive Minima.
Lecturer: Michel Waldschmidt (Paris 6)
(6 hours)


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Lattices and Number theory
  • Ring of integers, Dirichlet Unit Theorem, Euclidean rings
  • Arakelov divisors, ideal lattices, Arakelov class group, Buchmann's algorithm
Lecturers: Peter Stevenhagen (Leiden) - Tran Nguyen Thanh Ha (Aalto) (10 hours)


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Lattices and modular forms
  • Theta functions, Modular forms for SL2(Z), Eisenstein series.
  • Theta series, Unimodular even lattices.
Lecturers: René Schoof (Tor Vergata) - Valerio Talamanca (Roma Tre) (12 hours)


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Lattices in Lie algebras
  • Lie groups and algebras, Root systems and Dynkin diagrams.
  • Root lattices and Weight lattices.
Lecturer: Laura Geatti (Tor Vergata) (6 hours)



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Lattices and Mordell-Weil groups
  • Elliptic curves, Mordell-Weil groups, Quadratic forms, Heights.
  • Elliptic curves over function fields, Elkies constructions.
Lecturer: Francesco Pappalardi (Roma Tre) e Valerio Talamanca (Roma Tre) (10 hours)

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Lattices and Coding theory
  • Linear codes, Hamming distance, Cyclic codes, Golay codes.
  • Construction of the Leech lattice
Lecturer: Duong Hoang Dung (Kyushu)
(6 hours)


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Lattices and cryptography
  • Lattice basis reduction, shortest vector problem, nearest vector problem, LLL-algorithm.
  • Lattices based cryptography, Kissing number, sphere packings.
Lecturer Phong Nguyen, (INRIA) (10 hours)


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