Schedule for: 25w5500 - Isogeny Graphs in Cryptography

Beginning on Sunday, August 3 and ending Friday August 8, 2025

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, August 3
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (TCPL Foyer)
Monday, August 4
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Working group introductions
Brief introductions by project group leaders of their project for the week
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Victoria de Quehen: Discussions (Do not delete or zoom will shutdown) (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Luca De Feo: Plenary talk: "SQIsign and beyond" (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 15:00 Working groups (Other (See Description))
13:00 - 17:00 Victoria de Quehen: Discussions (Do not delete or zoom will shutdown) (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 17:30 Working groups (Other (See Description))
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, August 5
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Group presentations (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Kirsten Eisentraeger: Plenary talk: "Computing endomorphism rings of supersingular elliptic curves" (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:25 Working groups (Online)
10:30 - 17:30 Victoria de Quehen: Discussions (Do not delete or zoom will shutdown) (TCPL 201)
11:29 - 11:30 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 15:00 Working groups (Online)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:30 Working groups (Other (See Description))
16:45 - 17:30 Panel discussion
Panel discussion on career transitions, primarily focused on the transition from graduate school to a postdoctoral position, and securing a permanent position in an academic environment. Panelists: Sarah Arpin, Jean-Francois Biasse, Renate Scheidler, and Benjamin Smith
(TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, August 6
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Lightning talks
9:00 - 9:10 - Chloe Martindale, "Abelian varieties and attack avenues for M-SIDH" 9:12 - 9:22 - Eli Orvis, "Zeta functions of abstract isogeny graphs and modular curves" 9:24 - 9:34 - Ha Tran, "Gross lattices of supersingular elliptic curves" 9:36 - 9:46 - Peter Kutas, "Faster SCALLOP from non-prime conductor suborders in medium sized quadratic fields" 9:48 - 10:00 - group Q&A and discussion
(TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Industry panel (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
16:00 - 19:30 Victoria de Quehen: Discussions (Do not delete or zoom will shutdown) (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, August 7
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 10:00 Lightning talks
8:45 - 8:55 - Jonathan Love, "Plotting isogeny graphs by successive minima" 8:57 - 9:07 - Joe Macula, "Sesquilinear pairings in the CM case" 9:09 - 9:19 - Sebastian Spindler, "On the diameter of the supersingular l-isogeny graph" 9:21 - 9:31 - Taha Hedayat, "The Spine of a Supersingular Ell-Isogeny Graph" 9:33 - 9:43 - Will Mahaney, "Computing isogenies at singular points of the modular polynomial" 9:43 - 10:00 - group Q&A and discussion
(TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Working groups (Other (See Description))
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 15:00 Working groups (Other (See Description))
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
16:00 - 19:30 Victoria de Quehen: Discussions (Do not delete or zoom will shutdown) (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, August 8
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 10:00 Progress update from working groups (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 12:30 Victoria de Quehen: Discussions (Do not delete or zoom will shutdown) (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
10:30 - 11:30 Progress update from working groups (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)