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    Keeping the world's networks quantum safe

    Our digital, networked lives are only possible thanks to cryptography, but quantum computing could make our current techniques useless. How can we prepare for this quantum future and ensure we can continue to live our digital lives?

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    Helping AI to learn some physics

    The type of AI currently in use is based purely on data. How much more powerful would it be if it also has access to to humanity's vast knowledge of physics? Find out more in this collection of content.

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    Mixing it up: Understanding the boundaries of anti-diffusion

    The process of diffusion has been studied for centuries.  But reserachers have recently begun to study a competing process –  anti-diffusion. Find out more in this collection of content from a recent research programme at the INI.

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    The ECM 2024!

    See all our coverage of the European Congress of Mathematics 2024!

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    Groups today: a whistle-stop tour

    Groups have become a core part of the language of modern mathematics and theoretical physics. On this page, find out how groups can help describe roots of polynomials, holes on a surface, and even the laws of physics!

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    Groups: The basics

    Group theory is the mathematics of symmetry and structure. On this page, find out what a group is and how to think about them.

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    Happy birthday Timothy Gowers!

    Some of the best mathematicians from around the world came together in Cambridge to celebrate the maths of Tim Gowers, as well as his 60th birthday!

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    Happy International Women's Day 2024!

    To celebrate this year's International Women's Day we revisit some of the articles, podcasts and videos we have produced with women mathematicians over the last year.