Jana Sotáková

I am a PhD student of Christian Schaffner, Serge Fehr and Peter Bruin at Institute of Logic, Language and Computational the University of Amsterdam (ILLC) and a part of the QuSoft Crypto group. I started my PhD in 2019 and expect to graduate in 2023.
During my PhD, I am working on:

post-quantum cryptography, especially isogeny-based cryptography,
computational number theory,
quantum algorithms used for cryptanalysis.

Upcoming events and news

Visiting graduate student the The Quantum Wave in Computing semester program at the Simons Center
I am visiting during Jan 20-Feb 7. More information about the program are here.
TA at the PCMI 2020
I will be a TA for the course on Supersingular Isogeny Graphs by Kristin Lauter during the Park City Mathematical Institute 2020 in July 2020!
website of the summer school.
Talk at the Dutch Mathematical Congress 2020 on April 14
I will be giving a 30min talk about my work in the afternoon QSC session.
link to the conference schedule, abstract and details to follow

Articles and other work

Adventures in Supersingularland
joint work with Sarah Arpin, Catalina Camacho-Navarro, Kristin Lauter, Joelle Lim, Kristina Nelson and Travis Scholl
preprint available here or at eprint or at arXiv.
Eta quotients and class fields of imaginary quadratic fields
masters thesis under the supervision of Marco Streng (Leiden, 2017) available here

Talks

Adventures in Supersingularland: A Look at Isogeny graphs
Diamant symposium, De Bilt, The Netherlands, November 2019
Adventures in Supersingularland: A Look at Isogeny graphs
COSIC public key crypto seminar, Leuven November 2019
Adventures in Supersingularland: A Look at Isogeny graphs
Student crypto seminar, Amsterdam, November 2019
slides
Adventures in Supersingularland: A Look at Isogeny graphs
Ei/PSI seminar in Eindhoven, October 2019
slides

Conferences

Past

ECC 2019, December 2-4, 2019, Bochum
Isogeny-Based Cryptography Workshop, September 16-17, 2019, Birmingham
Women in Numbers, August 26-30, 2019, Rennes
project: Isogeny graphs. Lead by Kristin Lauter and Chloe Martindale, with Laia Amoros Carafi and Annamaria Iezzi.
Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, July 9-13, 2019, Bern
CMI-HIMR Summer School In Computational Number Theory, June 17-28, 2019, Bristol

Teaching

Modern Cryptography, Fall 2019
at UvA with Christian Schaffner and Jan Czajkowski
TA for introduction to cryptography for bachelor students in computer science
Math 16B, Spring 2019
at UC Berkeley with Kelli Talaska
GSI for the second semester of the introductory sequence in calculus for business majors
Math 16A, Fall 2018
at UC Berkeley with Kelli Talaska
GSI for the first semester of the introductory sequence in calculus for business majors
Math 1A, Spring 2018
at UC Berkeley with Richard Bamler
GSI for the first semester of the introductory sequence in calculus

Contact

📨️j DOT s DOT sotakova AT uva DOT nl

Where to find me on the Web

My ILLC website that is under construction.
My CWI website that is under construction.
My old website that contains some notes I've written.
An accurate log of my athletics endeavours can be found here.
I even have an Olympic.org site! It is very empty but I did attend the Youth Olympic Games in 2010: here is a link to the Wikipedia article about my race.
My Alma Mater profile.
My blog.