WinC Seminar
Find out about the exciting research going on in our Women in Cryptography community and get advice from more senior researchers in our Women in Cryptography Seminar!
Are you interested in joining the seminar or do you have any suggestions for exciting speakers for the next edition? Please write us an e-mail.
3rd Edition of WinC Seminar March 2025
We will host our third WinC Seminar, one talk each Wednesday in March 2025.
Let us know whether you have specific questions or suggestions for our speakers ahead of time here or join our discord.
We will have this amazing set of speakers:
The talks are:
5th of March at 6pm CET: Career Advice by Alice Silverberg.
Alice Silverbeg is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Irvine. Much of her recent work involves applying mathematics to cryptography. She co-introduced Multilinear Cryptography and Torus-Based Cryptography and co-invented the first fully hierarchical identity-based cryptosystem. Her interests include lattice-based cryptography, elliptic curve cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, fully homomorphic encryption, primality proving, quantum computing, and applications of abelian varieties to cryptography.
She consulted for the TV show NUMB3RS, was an organizer of the Fermat Fest at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and writes mathematically inspired Scottish country dances. She co-founded and co-edits the Media Column in the Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics. Alice Silverberg writes about Alice's Adventures in Numberland.
She earned her undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Harvard, and PhD and Masters degrees from Princeton, and did Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge. She has been awarded Humboldt, Sloan, IBM, DARPA, NSF, and NSA fellowships and grants. She has consulted for or done research at industrial labs and research centers including IBM, MSRI, Xerox PARC, the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, DoCoMo USA Labs, Bell Labs, Sandia National Labs, the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, the Max Planck Institute für Mathematik, and the Bunting Institute at Harvard.
12th of March at 1.30 CET: Advances in Succinct Non-Interactive Proofs by Carla Rafols.
Carla Ràfols is a cryptographer based in Barcelona and an Assistant Professor at Pompeu Fabra University. Previously, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the same university and a postdoctoral researcher at the Foundations of Cryptography Chair at Ruhr University Bochum. In the last few years, her research has focused on advancing both the practical and theoretical aspects of zero-knowledge proofs, with a focus on enhancing their efficiency and applicability.
19th of March at 6pm CET: Dynamic Threshold Homomorphic Encryption and Its Application by Ni Trieu.
Ni Trieu is an Assistant Professor of computer science at Arizona State University. Her research interests are in the area of cryptography and security, with a specific focus on secure computation and its applications such as private set intersection, private database queries, and privacy-preserving machine learning. Before joining ASU, she was a postdoc at UC Berkeley. She received her PhD degree from Oregon State University.
26th of March at 3pm CET: Career Advice by Valerie Gauthier-Umaña.
Valerie Gauthier is an assistant professor at the Systems and Computing Engineering Department, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Mathematician from Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. Winner of a grant from the European Community in the Erasmus Mundus master program ALGANT in algebra, geometry and number theory at University of Bordeaux I, France and Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy. She obtained her Ph.D in applied mathematics, in the area of post-quantum cryptography from Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU). Valérie was a postdoctoral researcher at the laboratory GREYC Université de Caen Normandie, France in the AMMAC team and at the Department of Mathematics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. She was the head of the Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, from 2016 to 2021. Her research areas of interest are cryptography, coding theory and its applications. Valérie was a member of the Technical Advisory Council of the National Statistical System of Colombia and is currently a member of the Applied and Industrial Mathematics Commission of the Colombian Mathematics Society.
