International Academic Collaboration of the Department of Cryptology: Visit of Professor Kyle Gannon and Joint Research with Chinese Universities

On January 20, 2026, the Department of Cryptology hosted a research talk by Professor Kyle Gannon, a representative of Peking University (ranked among the global Top-14 in the QS and THE rankings) and the Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research. The lecture was delivered within the framework of the Model Theory Seminar named after Academician Asan Dabsovich Taimanov.

The talk was devoted to automorphisms of direct products of groups and their model-theoretic properties. The algebraic structures under consideration are fundamental objects of modern algebra and are of substantial importance for cryptology, particularly in the analysis of symmetries and structural properties of cryptographic models.

Collaboration between the Department of Cryptology and Professor Kyle Gannon began in 2025. In the same year, he delivered a plenary lecture at the Eighth Kazakh–French Logical Colloquium, held in Astana at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. The colloquium was organized by Professor D. A. Tusupov.

Subsequently, Professor Kyle Gannon invited logicians from L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University to participate in international scientific events in China. In particular, Acting Associate Professor of the Department of Cryptology, N. D. Markhabatov, delivered a plenary talk at the international conference Model Theory and Interactions in the Yangtze Delta, held at Fudan University (ranked among the global Top-30 in the QS and THE rankings).

During the conference, many participants referred to the scientific works of Associate Professor of the Department of Cryptology, the well-known logician and cryptologist E. R. Baisalov. Doctoral students of the university also took part in the conference.

In addition, at the invitation of Professor Kyle Gannon, Professor of the Department of Algebra and Geometry M. I. Bekenov—widely regarded as one of the classics of model theory—together with N. D. Markhabatov, doctoral students F. Zhebei and A. Mamyraly, and lecturer of the Department of Cryptology A. Anuarbekov, delivered in-person talks at a scientific seminar at Peking University and also participated in the international conference Delta Logic. During these events, new results in the model theory of groups and quasivarieties were presented.

All research activities and academic visits were supported by the grant project GF AP26194247 “Theory of Pseudofinite Models and Concept Lattices in Modern Cryptology,” led by N. D. Markhabatov.

The Department of Cryptology continues to consistently expand and strengthen its international academic cooperation with leading universities of the People’s Republic of China, integrating contemporary results of model theory into current directions of cryptological research.