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Algebra Kinderseminar

Wed, 20/01/2010
11:30 		Peter Neumann (University of Oxford) Algebra Kinderseminar Add to calendar ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
Synchronizing groups and irreducible modules over the field of size two
Wed, 27/01/2010
11:30 		Nikolay Nikolov (Imperial College, London) Algebra Kinderseminar Add to calendar ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
Linear algebra and geometric combinatorics
Wed, 03/02/2010
11:30 		David Craven (University of Oxford) Algebra Kinderseminar Add to calendar ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
Elliptic Curves and Cryptography
This talk will introduce various aspects of modern cryptography. After introducing RSA and some factoring algorithms, I will move on to how elliptic curves can be used to produce a more complex form of Diffie–Hellman key exchange.
Wed, 10/02/2010
11:30 		Algebra Kinderseminar Add to calendar
NO SEMINAR
Wed, 17/02/2010
11:30 		George Wellen (Bradfield College) Algebra Kinderseminar Add to calendar ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
$ \pi $
Wed, 24/02/2010
11:30 		Jason Semeraro (University of Oxford) Algebra Kinderseminar Add to calendar ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
Topics in Fusion Systems
Wed, 10/03/2010
11:30 		Peter Neumann (University of Oxford) Algebra Kinderseminar Add to calendar ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
Understanding the Second Mémoire of Évariste Galois: modern counterexamples to ancient writings
The first part of Galois' Second Mémoire, less than three pages of manuscript written in 1830, is devoted to an amazing insight, far ahead of its time. Translated into modern mathematical language (and out of French), it is the theorem that a primitive soluble finite permutation group has prime-power degree. This, and Galois' ideas, and counterexamples to some of them, will be my theme.

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