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Carrie Kania, literary agent with Conville and Walsh: "Everything you ever wanted to know about literary agents and dare not ask"

Free and open to all!! 1:30-2:30 in Writer's Room in Millburn House!

 Here's your chance to corner one of the most straight-talking, free-thinking literary agents in the country. What are agents looking for? What should you do to capture their attention? What should you never do? Carrie Kania spent 15 years in US publishing, most recently as publisher of Harper Perennial and publisher/found of It Books. She moved to London two years ago to become a literary agent with Conville and Walsh and is co-owner of the independent bookstore and literary venue, The Society Club in Soho. She has worked with and published Michael Chabon, Barbara Kingsolver and Simon Van Booy. She currently lives with her dog, Foxy Beckett, in London.

Speaker: Nigel Smart (University of Bristol)

Abstract

In the last couple of years amazing advances have been made on techniques to perform computation on encrypted data. Some of the techniques are even becoming practical. In this talk I will show a novel technique which utilizes techniques used in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes to provide efficiency improvements in Multi-Party Computation (MPC) protocols. No prior knowledge of FHE or MPC will be assumed.

Bio
Professor Nigel Smart is a leading world expert in cryptography. He currently serves Vice-President of the IACR and has in the past been both Programme and General Chair of Eurocrypt. Before joining the University he worked at Hewlett-Packard's European research laboratory; which is also located in Bristol. Professor Smart has contributed to cryptography in many areas including elliptic curves, pairing based cryptography, protocol design and analysis (particularly key agreement), and more recent in multi-party computation and fully homomorphic encryption. He is the holder of an ERC Advanced Grant (2011-2016) and was the holder of a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award (2008-2013). Professor Smart has regular contacts with industry, and has consulted for a number of companies. He was also one of the founders of Identum, a spin-out in the area of encryption from the University, which has since been bought by Trend Micro.

With papers from:

Clare Siviter (French Studies): 'The Revolutionary Heritage of French Imperial Tragedy'

Rebecca Pilliere (French Studies): 'Breaking Tradition: Charles IX's Royal Entry in La Rochelle (1565)'

Clare Siviter (French Studies): 'The Revolutionary Heritage of French Imperial Tragedy'

 Rebecca Pilliere (French Studies): 'Breaking Tradition: Charles IX's Royal Entry in La Rochelle (1565)'

 Chair: Elisabeth Wallman.