The Foundations of Computer Science Research Group (FoCS) recently hosted world-renowned researchers in the areas of cryptography and algorithms at the AlgoUK workshop. The event, held on September 17-18 2019, attracted over 130 participants.

Adi Shamir (Weizman Institute), co-inventor of public key cryptography and Turing Award winner, talked about his recent work on understanding the fragile behaviour of machine learning systems. Madhu Sudan (Harvard), winner of the Nevanlinna and Gödel awards, talked about new constructions of "polarizing" codes for communication. Svetla Nikova (KU Leuven) talked about recent work on achieving security against powerful adversaries.

Other speakers at the two day event were Adrià Gascon (Google/The Alan Turing Institute), Mary Cryan (Edinburgh), Paul Goldberg (Oxford), Christian Ikenmeyer (Liverpool), Christian Konrad (Bristol), Daniel Paulusma (Durham) and Thomas Sauerwald (Cambridge).

Slides and abstracts for the talks are available at the workshop website, https://algouk.wixsite.com/warwick2019.