Heilbronn Institute
The ominously-named Heilbronn Institute is due to open next month. It's being established as a partnership between Bristol University and a obscure little British intelligence agency known as GCHQ. Apparently, the institute will be pursuing a research programme "into key areas of mathematics of interest to GCHQ".
Each researcher will get to spend half their time on their own personal stuff, and the other half working on GCHQ projects. The director is Elmer Rees (one of the world's leading mathematicians working in the field geometry, according to Wikipedia), and the deputy director is Richard Pinch, a "civil servant living in Cheltenham", albeit a civil servant with research interests in "computational number theory, the arithmetic of elliptic curves, algebraic combinatorics and public-key cryptography".
Each researcher will get to spend half their time on their own personal stuff, and the other half working on GCHQ projects. The director is Elmer Rees (one of the world's leading mathematicians working in the field geometry, according to Wikipedia), and the deputy director is Richard Pinch, a "civil servant living in Cheltenham", albeit a civil servant with research interests in "computational number theory, the arithmetic of elliptic curves, algebraic combinatorics and public-key cryptography".
Tags: Cryptography , GCHQ
posted by Matt Crypto at 12:01 PM
4 Comments:
That is a good idea. Of course it must be a headache to get clearances for all the researchers.
-Mike
Now all those number theoretics freaks kan work officially for the doughnut's CESG department, although it believe that many of them are old friends of CESG. Curious what the employe list looks like...and the payrole. Tax money tax money tax money...
Hey Matt, maybe you can help me out on this:
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since u take an interest, shld be a piece of cake.. hope to hear from you soon!
plat
I wouldn't call GCHQ little, these were the guys who broke Lorenz and enigma came up with asymmetric encryption.
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