About this Event
📍 Location: Exact address given in confirmation email
🧠 Lecture: “Cryptography: The Math of Keeping Secrets”
🎙 Speaker: Ismar Volić
Join us for a fascinating evening as Professor Ismar Volić unlocks the hidden world of cryptography—the math that keeps our secrets safe. From online banking to private messaging, modern life depends on the secure transfer of information, all powered by elegant and powerful mathematical ideas.
Professor Volić will guide us through the history and politics of secret communication, from the World War II German Enigma machine to cutting-edge systems like quantum cryptography. Along the way, you’ll discover how the ongoing battle between code-makers and code-breakers shapes our digital world and our democracies.
Ismar Volić is a Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy at Wellesley College. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, MIT, and the University of Virginia, delivered hundreds of lectures worldwide, and written extensively on mathematics and democracy, including his award-winning book “Making Democracy Count.”
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Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
Event venue & nearby stays
Back Bay, Back Bay, Boston, United States
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