Workshop on Computational Number Theory
on the occasion of Herman te Riele's retirement from CWI Amsterdam



CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands    
December 1 - 2, 2011






  CWI


    NWO

Program

The program is as follows.


Thursday, December 1

Location: Turing room, WCW congress center (next to CWI), Science Park 125, Amsterdam (directions)
12:00Lunch (provided)
13:20Opening Remarks
Session: Factoring Large Numbers (Chair: Paul Zimmermann)
13:30Paul Leyland - A History of Factoring in the Real World [ slides ]
14:00Peter Montgomery - Early History of the Number Field Sieve [ slides ]
14:30Joppe Bos - Recent Developments in ECM [ slides ]
15:00Tea Break
15:30Jason Papadopoulos - High-performance optimization of GNFS polynomials [ slides ]
16:00Thorsten Kleinjung - Filtering and the matrix step in NFS [ slides ]
16:30Alexander Kruppa - Comparison of the Block Wiedemann with the Block Lanczos algorithm for the linear algebra step in NFS [ slides ]
17:00Closing


Friday, December 2

Location: Turing room, WCW congress center (next to CWI), Science Park 125, Amsterdam (directions)
10:50Welcome and opening
Session: Computations on Zeta and Other Functions (Chair: Herman te Riele)
11:00Joost Batenburg - Discrete tomography for lattice images: a journey through Mathematics [ slides ]
11:30Rob Tijdeman - Smooth numbers [ slides ]
12:00Pieter Moree - The Erdős-Moser conjecture [ slides ]
12:30Lunch (provided)
14:00Pieter Moree - Euler-Kronecker constants: from Ramanujan to Ihara [ slides ]
14:30Andrew Odlyzko - Computation and the Riemann Hypothesis [ slides ]
Social Session
15:00 Farewell Speeches (by Herman himself and others)
16:00 Reception (ground floor of the new CWI building)