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Post-modern coding and cryptography: securing the quantum internet | BCS Oxfordshire branch

Coding Theory began as a way to transmit information reliably over noisy channels, with applications ranging from CD and DVD players to space exploration. Alongside this, Public Key Cryptography emerged to secure digital communications, relying on the assumed difficulty of certain mathematical problems. The rise of practical quantum computing now challenges those assumptions. In this talk, Richard Pinch explores two unexpected roles of Coding Theory in the quantum era: how error-correction techniques are essential for building reliable quantum computers, and how cryptographic systems based on coding theory offer promising quantum-resistant security. Richard Pinch is a retired civil servant with a career spanning pure mathematics and cybersecurity. He was the founding Head of Research at the Heilbronn Institute, has served as Vice-President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and continues mathematical research as a consultant.