The winter school will provide an in depth coverage of bilinear pairings and their role in cryptographic constructions. The major topics are the following; – Basics of elliptic curves – Elliptic curve cryptography – The basics of pairings – The mathematics behind how pairings work – How to efficiently compute Organizer: Yehuda Lindell, Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel School Lecturers – Dan Boneh (Stanford University) – Jens Groth (University College London) – Florian Hess (Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) – Allison Bishop Lewko (Microsoft Research New England) – Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown University) – Nigel Smart (University of Bristol) http://crypto.biu.ac.il/winterschool2013/