Past events
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Cedric Pilatte
15:00 - 16:00 11 November 2025
Speaker: Cedric Pilatte (Oxford) Title: Fastest quantum algorithms for factoring Abstract: Quantum computers offer dramatic speedups for certain algorithmic tasks that are particularly relevant to cryptography. Notably, the problem of factoring n-digit integers can be solved using a quantum circuit...
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Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Nikolai Prochorov
14:00 - 15:00 10 November 2025
Speaker: Nikolai Prochorov (Aix-Marseille University) Title: Thurston theory for critically fixed branched covering maps Abstract: In the 1980’s, William Thurston obtained his celebrated characterization of rational mappings. This result laid the foundation of such a field as Thurston's theory of...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Wei-Yuan Wayne Lo
12:00 - 13:00 5 November 2025
Talk Title: Crypto and Crime in Taiwan As a prosecutor specializing in blockchain-related crime, Wei-Yuan Wayne Lo examines how the rise of blockchain technology has accelerated the growth of virtual assets while also creating new avenues for criminal misuse. The presentation first outlines Taiwan’s...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Robert Gorwa
14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2025
Talk Title: Full Stack AI Governance Every time someone trains, deploys, or queries an ‘artificial intelligence’ system, whether they know it or not, they are implicating the practices and services of an enormous number of interlinked businesses in the AI ‘stack’. In this talk, Robert Gorwa...
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sudip Pandit
15:00 - 16:00 4 November 2025
Speaker: Sudip Pandit (Kings College London) Title: Explicit Mordell–Lang bound for curves in low rank Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the Buium–Coleman method to study the Mordell–Lang conjecture for curves, i.e., studying the points on a curve that lie in a finite rank subgroup inside...
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