The Bill Tutte Centenary Symposium (Bletchley Park)

The Bill Tutte Centenary Symposium will be held at Bletchley Park on May 14, 2017, from 10:00 am to 16:30 pm. The event marks the formal opening of The Bill Tutte Exhibition, celebrating the life and accomplishments of Bill Tutte, on what would have been his 100th Birthday.

"Bill Tutte, was a British codebreaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, at Bletchley Park he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system which was used for top-secret communications within the Wehrmacht High Command.

He also had a number of significant mathematical accomplishments, including foundation work in the fields of graph theory and matroid theory."