10 x 10 Lecture Series

10 x 10 Lecture Series

The 10x10 series - ten speakers at ten locations in ten months. Come and listen to New Zealand mathematicians talking about their work and how they are helping to find solutions to today’s problems.

Codes and ciphers – the mathematics of the internet

Dr Dillon Mayhew

5.30pm Thursday 20 June 2013, Rimu Room, Scion, 49 Sala Street, Rotorua.

Our modern world has been completely transformed by the instantaneous movement of information around the globe – the information transmitted over the internet in 24 hours would fill 2,000,000 tons of CDs. How can we transmit such volumes of information accurately and securely? The answer lies in the mathematics of codes and ciphers. This talk will be a non-technical explanation of some of these mathematical ideas.