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SYMPOSIA – Tuesday
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Computability and Complexity
in Mathematics, Session II
ponderosa pines 1 & 2
Program continues from Monday.
Please refer to page 24 of these Proceedings
for the full description of the program.
Tuesday, 9:00 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.
Program Co-Chairs: Jens Harlander and Marion Scheepers
9:00 43 Elliptic Curves: From Diophantus to Modern
Cryptography, LAWRENCE C WASHINGTON
(Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742; lcw@umd.edu).
11:10 45 Symmetric Key Cryptography Over Non-binary
Algebraic Structures, LILJANA BABINKOS-
TOVA 1 , KAMERYN WILLIAMS 1 *, ALYSSA
BOWDEN 2 , and ANDREW KIMBALL 3 ( 1 Department
of Mathematics, Boise State University; 2 Department
of Mathematics, Loyola Marymount University;
3
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Western Carolina University).
Following this symposium Tuesday afternoon will be the workshop,
Programmed Genome Remodeling in Ciliates and Computing.
In the middle of the workshop will be the contributed paper,
Cantor’s Original Proof that the Reals are Uncountable. For information
about the workshop, please refer to page 35 of these Proceedings.
For information about the oral presentation, please refer to
page 40 of these Proceedings.
9:50 44 Computability and Complexity in Elliptic Curves
and Cryptography, KEVIN BOMBARDIER 1 *,
MATTHEW COLE 2 , THOMAS MORRELL 3 ,
and CORY SCOTT 4 ( 1 Department of Mathematics,
Wichita State University; 2 Department of Mathematics,
University of Notre Dame; 3 Department of Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis; 4 Department
of Mathematics, Colorado College).
10:10 44 Computability and Complexity in Elliptic Curves
and Cryptography, KEVIN BOMBARDIER 1 ,
MATTHEW COLE 2 , THOMAS MORRELL 3 *,
and CORY SCOTT 4 ( 1 Department of Mathematics,
Wichita State University; 2 Department of Mathematics,
University of Notre Dame; 3 Department of Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis; 4 Department
of Mathematics, Colorado College).
10:30 44 Computability and Complexity in Elliptic Curves
and Cryptography, KEVIN BOMBARDIER 1 ,
MATTHEW COLE 2 , THOMAS MORRELL 3 ,
and CORY SCOTT 4 * ( 1 Department of Mathematics,
Wichita State University; 2 Department of Mathematics,
University of Notre Dame; 3 Department of Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis; 4 Department
of Mathematics, Colorado College).
10:50 44 Computability and Complexity in Elliptic Curves
and Cryptography, KEVIN BOMBARDIER 1 ,
MATTHEW COLE 2 *, THOMAS MORRELL 3 ,
and CORY SCOTT 4 ( 1 Department of Mathematics,
Wichita State University; 2 Department of Mathematics,
University of Notre Dame; 3 Department of Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis; 4 Department
of Mathematics, Colorado College).
Biofuel: Computational Modeling
of Cellulose and Cellulase
douglas fir 1 & 2
Tuesday
9:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Program organizer: C. Mark Maupin (Department of Chemical
and Biological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines).
Program sponsored by the Pacific Division section on Computer
and Information Sciences.
The ever increasing world-wide demands for energy, along
with uncertain petroleum sources and the possibility of
global climate change, has dictated the necessity for our
nation to develop a sustainable and renewable alternative
to fossil transportation fuel. Biofuels derived from lignocellulosic
biomass are attractive alternatives due to the vast
infrastructure already in place for the distribution of a liquid
transportation fuel, and the fact that fuel derived from
cellulose does not compete with human and livestock food
resources. Furthermore, since cellulose is the most abundant
renewable biopolymer on earth, the feedstock for cellulosic
biofuels is almost inexhaustible and the utilization of cellulose
for liquid fuel can achieve zero net carbon dioxide emission,
thereby making it a crucial component in our efforts to
reduce greenhouse gases.
Cellulosic biofuels are created by hydrolyzing cellulose
to glucose and subsequently fermenting the glucose to make
biofuel. Several major obstacles remain with regard to the
viability of cellulosic biofuels including overcoming the natural
resistance of cellulose to enzymatic depolymerization,
known as biomass recalcitrance, which is primarily responsible
for the high cost of cellulosic biofuels. To formulate
ways to overcome biomass recalcitrance, a basic understanding
of the substrate and enzymes involved in the hydrolysis
1100 (time italicized and underlined) identifies a student presentation 27
* identifies the speaker from among several authors listed
63 (bolded number) is the abstract number
abstracts contain complete contact information for authors