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Quantum computing is the new buzzword - Richard Pinch has been looking into what computers will look like after quantum tech arrives and what new ideas are still on the drawing board. Mathematics - old, new and as yet unknown - will be the key to developing and exploiting these new technologies.

Richard Pinch is currently Vice-President (Profession and Industry) of the IMA, and a researcher at the Heilbronn Institute in Bristol. He recently retired from GCHQ where he was Head of Profession for Mathematics and founding Head of Research at the Heilbronn Institute; he had previously held research at teaching positions at Cambridge and Glasgow universities. His mathematical interests are in number theory and algebraic combinatorics, especially their computational aspects.