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SUMMARY:Unlikely Friendships: Fruitful Interplay of Mathematical Structures
  in Cryptography
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shweta Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology\, Madra
 s)\n\nAbstract: \nThe security of cryptographic protocols is based on the 
 conjectured intractability of some mathematical problem\, typically a sin
 gle problem. However\, in some cases\, novel constructions emerge out of 
 the surprising interplay of seemingly disparate mathematical structures a
 nd conjectured hard problems on these. Though unusual\, this cooperation b
 etween assumptions\, when it happens\, can lead to progress on important o
 pen problems. This sometimes paves the way for subsequent improvements\, w
 hich may even eliminate the multiplicity and reduce security to a single a
 ssumption.\nIn this talk\, I will give examples from recent work that have
  benefited from this interplay\, leveraging diverse mathematical structur
 es and assumptions in a way that yields more than a "sum of parts"\, and l
 eads to surprising progress in longstanding problems.\nShort Bio:\nDr. Shw
 eta Agrawal is a professor at the Computer Science and Engineering departm
 ent\, at the Indian Institute of Technology\, Madras. She earned her PhD a
 t the University of Texas at Austin\, and did her postdoctoral work at the
  University of California\, Los Angeles. Her area of research is cryptogra
 phy with a focus on post quantum cryptography. She has won multiple awards
  and honours such as the Swarnajayanti award\, the ACM India award for Out
 standing Contributions to Computing by a Woman\, a best paper award at Eur
 ocrypt\, Google India faculty award\, BY award for excellence in research 
 and teaching\, invited speaker at prestigious conferences like Asiacrypt a
 nd "Women in Mathematics" and program co-chair for the flagship conference
  Asiacrypt.\n
URL:https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/web/events/1396
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LOCATION:via Zoom in A201
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