Recordings of this Conference are now available with closed captioning on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/IMAmaths/videos
10:00-11:00 – Chris Budd – V-KEMS: The Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in the Mathematical Sciences
11:00-12:00 – Nigel Smart – Privacy-enhancing Technologies
For a number of years, the IMA has been running a series of conferences to promote mathematics with the aim of demonstrating to both mathematicians and non-mathematicians the many uses of modern mathematics.
This summer, due to Covid19, IMA Mathematics 2020 will be run virtually in a series of weekly two hour events, starting on Tuesday 14 July 2020 with the IMA Presidential Address. Other talks will cover areas such as defence, regulation, privacy enhancing technologies and modelling in industrial maintenance and reliability.
Recordings of this Conference are now available with closed captioning on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/IMAmaths/videos
Abstracts
Chris Budd – V-KEMS: The Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in the Mathematical Sciences
Acting on the pressing need to maintain the critical knowledge transfer links that universities have with industry and public sector bodies, and to focus the work of mathematicians on the problems brought by COVID-19, a group of mathematical sciences organisations set up a virtual forum for knowledge exchange shortly after the UK lockdown.
The Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in the Mathematical Sciences (V-KEMS) was established by the IMI, the Isaac Newton Institute (INI), the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), University of Oxford, University of Southampton, Bristol University and the University of Sussex.
The new forum has already hosted three national Virtual Study Group events (VSG). Eachstudy group brought together a group of academic experts to work on particular challenges brought by industry and government partners, and use their collective experience to work through potential solutions. The most recent VSG was on reopening HE. Three more VSGs are planned including one on the logistics of food distribution under COVID-19 restrictions.
V-KEMS is also organising webinars/seminars and is acting to triage business problems for future virtual events.
The experience of running study groups in a virtual environment has been hugely positive, and both the government body and the businesses that took part wish to continue collaborations.
In this seminar I will tell you more about V-KEMS and how you can be involved. I will also give you some of the highlights of the recent VSGs, including looking at the (mathematically) safest way to shop in a supermarket.
More details about V-KEMS can be found at https://www.vkemsuk.org/home
Nigel Smart – Privacy-enhancing Technologies
I will discuss how the technology of MPC and FHE is changing the way people process data, by allowing them to compute on data whilst it is “encrypted”. I will also discuss a number of use cases of the technology. The talk will not go into technical details, and thus you do not need to understand any cryptography for the talk.
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Support
The IMA Mathematics 2020 Online Series has been organised in collaboration with the Newton Gateway to Mathematics.
Further information
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