We hope to bring together all Oxford researchers interested in Cryptography, in Quantum Computing and in the interactions between the two.
Please register at: http://oxford-cryptography-day.eventbrite.co.uk
In his talk, Kerry will explore the pressing practical problem of how hurricane activity will respond to global warming, and how hurricanes could in turn be influencing the atmosphere and ocean
I will describe how the moduli of various congruences between Hecke eigenvalues of automorphic forms ought to show up in ratios of critical values of $\text{GSP}_2 \times \text{GL}_2$ L-functions. To test this experimentally requires the full force of Farmer and Ryan's technique for approximating L-values given few coefficients in the Dirichlet series.
I will discuss the notion of badly approximable points and recent progress and problems in this area, including Schmidt's conjecture, badly approximable points on manifolds and real numbers badly approximable by algebraic numbers.
Leinster and Willerton have introduced the concept of the magnitude of a metric space, as a special case as that of an enriched category. It is a numerical invariant which is designed to capture the important geometric information about the space, but concrete examples of ts values on compact sets in euclidean space have hitherto been lacking. We discuss progress in some conjectures of Leinster and Willerton.
We present McEliece encryption scheme and some well-known proposals based on various families of error correcting codes. We introduce several methods for cryptanalysis in order to study the security of the presented proposals.