| # |
Date |
Topic (references) |
Materials |
| 1 | 2/3 | Introduction to elliptic curves | slides |
| 2 | 2/5 | The group law, Weierstrass and Edwards equations (Washington 2.1-3, 2.6.3, Bernstein-Lange) | notes, worksheet 1, worksheet 2 |
| 3 | 2/10 | Finite fields and integer arithmetic (Modern Computer Algebra Ch. 8) | notes |
| 4 | 2/12 | Finite field arithmetic (Modern Computer Algebra: Sec. 3.2, 9.1, 11.1, HEHCC Ch. 9, Rabin) | notes |
| 5 | 2/19 | Isogenies (Washington 2.9, Silverman III.4) | notes |
| 6 | 2/24 | Isogeny kernels and division polynomials (Washington 3.2, 12.3, Silverman III.4)) | notes, worksheet |
| 7 | 2/28 | Endomorphism rings (Washington 4.2, , Silverman III.6) | notes |
| 8 | 3/3 | Hasse's Theorem, Point counting (Washington 4.3) | notes |
| 9 | 3/5 | Schoof's algorithm (Washington 4.2, 4.5, Schoof) | notes, worksheet |
| 10 | 3/10 | Generic algorithms for discrete logarithms (Washington 5.2, Pohlig-Hellman, Pollard, Shoup) | notes |
| 11 | 3/12 | Index calculus, smooth numbers, factoring integers (Washington 5.1, 7.1, Granville, Lenstra) | notes, worksheet |
| 12 | 3/17 | Elliptic curve primality proving (ECPP) (Washington 7.2, Goldwasser-Kilian, Pomerance) | notes |
| 13 | 3/19 | Endomorphism algebras (Silverman III.9) | notes |
| 14 | 3/31 | Ordinary and supersingular curves (Silverman III.1,V, Washington 2.7, 4.6) | notes |
| 15 | 4/2 | Elliptic curves over C (part 1) (Cox Sec. 10, Silverman VI.2-3, Washington 9.1-2) | notes |
| 16 | 4/7 | Elliptic curves over C (part 2) (Cox Sec. 10-11, Silverman VI.4-5, Washington 9.2-3) | notes |
| 17 | 4/9 | Complex multiplication (CM) (Cox Sec. 11, Silverman VI.5, Washington 9.3) | notes |
| 18 | 4/14 | The CM action (Cox Sec. 7, Silverman (advanced topics) II.1.1) | notes |
| 19 | 4/16 | Riemann surfaces and modular curves (Silverman (advanced topics) I.2, Milne V.1) | notes |
| 20 | 4/23 | The modular equation (Cox Sec. 11, Milne V.2, Washington pp. 273-274) | notes |
| 21 | 4/28 | The Hilbert class polynomial (Cox Sec. 8, 11) | notes |
| 22 | 4/30 | Ring class fields and the CM method (Cox 8, 11) | notes |
| 23 | 5/5 | Isogeny volcanoes (Sutherland) | notes |
| 24 | 5/7 | The Weil pairing (Miller, Washington 11, Silverman III.8) | notes |
| 25 | 5/12 | Modular forms and L-series (Milne V.3-4) | notes |
| 26 | 5/14 | Fermat's last theorem (Milne V.7-9, Washington 15, Cornell-Stevens-Silverman I) | notes |
