Benjamin Burton

Benjamin Burton is a professor in the School of Mathematics and Physics at The University of Queensland, where he spends his time teaching supercomputers how to untangle knots. His mathematical career has spanned geometry, cryptography and finance, and he enjoys puzzling over how to find fast computational solutions to difficult mathematical problems.

Benjamin is passionate about bringing mathematics to schools and to the public, and he has worked behind the scenes for many years to help organise the International Olympiad in Informatics and the National Mathematics Summer School. He also volunteers for the Debian GNU/Linux project, and knows more about Eurovision than you will ever need to know.

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