Workshops Events and Seminars
Workshop
02-06 Sep 2024
Foundations and Applications of Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) are a highly relevant application area of mathematics and theoretical computer science and a thriving area of cryptographic research in the UK and worldwide. Zero-knowledge and probabilistically...
Workshop
11-15 Dec 2023
Optimal Transport and the Calculus of Variations
The aim of this meeting was to bring together experts in the theory of optimal transport and the calculus of variations, with a focus on nonlinear PDEs, gradient flows, and...
Workshop
22-26 Jul 2024
Additive Combinatorics
Additive combinatorics is in an astonishingly active period of development, in the UK and worldwide. There have been so many major advances in the past decade that we cannot list...
Workshop
09-13 Sep 2024
UK Workshop on Spectral Theory
Spectral Theory in the UK has a longstanding history, encompassing the influential works of scientists such as Titchmarsh, Born and Dirac. It naturally sits at the crossroads of numerous branches...
Workshop
08-11 Jul 2024
Historical Analysis for Defence and Security Symposium
The theme of this meeting, which links academia, industry and government, was historical analysis (HA), the sub-discipline of operational research which conducts quantitative studies of historical warfare and other operations to...
Events
21-21 Nov 2023
The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything – Leverhulme Lecture
The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything John C Baez, Univeristy of California, Riverside In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams,...
Events
26-26 Sep 2023
Life’s Struggle to Survive – Leverhulme Lecture
Life's Struggle to Survive John C Baez, Univeristy of California, Riverside When pondering our future amid global warming, it is worth remembering how we got here. Even after it got...
Workshop
15-19 Apr 2024
Gauge Fields in Arithmetic, Topology and Physics
As first observed by Mazur and Mumford, there existed a deep analogy between 3-manifolds and number fields. In the 90s, Morishita expanded upon and delved deeper into these connections between low-dimensional...
