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Three quantum-safe cryptography methods standardised for global use 19 August 2024Three quantum-safe cryptography methods have been standardised for worldwide use since this week. Léo Ducas co-designed the two primary PQC methods se...
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Twenty years of international mathematics master at Leiden 02 August 2024Mathematicians from Bordeaux, Leiden and Padua have been working together for 20 years. In 2004, they started a two-year mathematics master's degree i...
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Losing count: the mathematical magic of counting curves 04 July 2024How can you figure out which points lie on a certain curve? And how many possible curves do you count by a given number of points? These are the kinds...
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Post-quantum cryptography should keep our DigiD, bank accounts and state secrets safe 15 January 2024Our banking, DigiD and sensitive medical data: what if our entire digital infrastructure can no longer be trusted? Jelle Don has this question permane...
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Mathematics across borders: Peter Stevenhagen in Pakistan 18 December 2023Peter Stevenhagen delivered daily lectures at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering in Lahore, in collaboration with ICTP, a well-known...
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Honouring a mathematical legacy: Edixhoven fellow tries to understand millennia-old problems 19 October 2023Not all problems are easy to solve, but with enough bright minds, you make progress step by step. ‘The kind of problems I am interested in have been o...
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How quantum mechanics threatens our digital lives – and makes them safer 23 September 2022Much of the work of Serge Fehr, Professor of Quantum Information Theory, is abstract and theoretical and comprehensible to very few people. But his wo...
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How suspicious parties can work together safely 19 March 2019Cryptographer Max Fillinger developed new methods to analyse a group of algorithms called commitments schemes. These schemes are building blocks for c...
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The million dollar proof 31 October 2018PhD student Raymond van Bommel decided to pore upon one of the most complicated mathematical problems of our time; the solution of it is worth 1 milli...
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Serge Fehr appointed as Professor Quantum information theory 08 June 2018As of 1 June, Serge Fehr has been appointed as Professor Quantum information theory at the Leiden Mathematical Institute (MI). Fehr is employed by Cen...
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Djordjo Milovic wins Stieltjes prize 05 April 2018On 4 April 2018 the Stieltjes prize 2016 was awarded to Djordjo Milovic for his PhD thesis 'On the 16-rank of class groups of quadratic number fields'.
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Roland van der Veen to receive MAA Beckenbach Book Prize 04 January 2018The book ‘The Riemann Hypothesis: A Million Dollar Problem’ has been elected by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) as one of the best books...
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ERC Advanced Grant for cryptographer Ronald Cramer 28 March 2017Ronald Cramer has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his proposal 'Algebraic Methods for Stronger Crypto'. He will receive 2.5 million euro for re...
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'Maths is often way ahead of practical applications' 04 July 2016A secret code that we currently use to send e-mails securely is based on the maths of a century ago. The geometrical surfaces that Dino Festi studied ...
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Maths research in Leiden excellent 01 June 2016An international committee has assessed the maths research at all Dutch universities over the period from 2009 to 2014. Maths in Leiden was awarded th...