Fall 2022 Thanksgiving Talk  + Potluck 

Time: Nov 10, 2022 3:00 pm (Thursday)

Location: CUNY GC Math Department Lounge Rm. 4214

Speaker: Delaram Kahrobaei (Professor of Mathematics at CUNY Queens College, Professor of Computer Science,CUNY Queens College, Honorary Chair of Cybersecurity University of York, UK) 

Title: Applied Group Theory in the Quantum and Artificial Intelligence Era

Abstract: In this talk I present an overview of the current state-of-the-art in post-quantum group-based cryptography. I describe several families of groups that have been proposed as platforms, with special emphasis in polycyclic groups and graph groups, dealing in particular with their algorithmic properties and cryptographic applications. I then describe some applications of combinatorial algebra in fully homomorphic encryption, and in particular homomorphic machine learning. I will discuss several open problems in this direction (https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05917 to appear in the Notices of AMS).