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Keeping schools open in the next pandemic

To avoid full school closures in the next pandemic, or even epidemic, epidemiologists need crucial information from schools, students, and parents.

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?

Post-quantum cryptography

Ingenious uses of maths have provided the key to internet security, but how can we secure our digital lives in the face of quantum computing?

Lattice-based cryptography

Find out about lattice-based cryptography – the best candidate for keeping our networks safe in the face of attacks by quantum computers – in this brief introduction.

Maths in a minute: Lattices

A lattice may seem like a simple regular grid of points, but it leads to fascinating new research in maths and cryptography!

Maths in a minute: Quantum computing

Quantum computing often grabs the headlines. The word "quantum" itself is intriguing enough, but what exactly is quantum computing?

Maths in a minute: Cryptography

Ingenious maths keeps your credit card details safe when you shop online and underlies the security of the internet.  Find out how in this easy introduction.

OK computer

There's a romantic vision of mathematicians only needing pen and paper for their work. Here's why this is far from the truth when it comes to mathematical modelling, used to solve problems in the real world.

Cosquer: Counting by hand

When did humans first start to count? A cave in France may contain the earliest evidence.

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.

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.

Mixing it up

Researchers from different fields recently came together to improve our understanding of anti-diffusion, the process behind the distinct bands of Jupiter, that also plays a role in our oceans and in developing plasma fusion reactors.