Theta functions and moduli spaces of abelian varieties. 
An application to a point counting algorithm.
David Lubicz
Centre d'ELectronique de l'ARmement (CELAR)
Thursday 19 February, 3:05-3:55PM
375 Carslaw

In this talk, we explain the original counting point algorithm of Mestre :
this algorithm computes the number of rational points of an hyperelliptic
curve defined over a finite field of characteristic 2. We present an
algorithmic improvment of this algorithm.