Texas algebraic geometry seminar and workshop


Coding Theory Workshop Schedule

All workshop talks will be in Blocker 156. This is a conference room on the first floor of the building, at the south end. Here are slides for the talks.

Wednesday, May 17

8:30-9:30: Breakfast, coffee, registration, Blocker 156

9:30-10:45: Error control codes, especially linear block codes

11:00-12:00: Supplemental lecture: Ideals, rings and algebraic varieties

1:45-3:00: Codes with "extra structure:" cyclic and multicyclic codes

3:00-3:30: Tea/cookies, Blocker 156

Thursday, 18

8:30-9:30: Breakfast and coffee, Blocker 156

9:30-10:45: More on structure of finite fields, Reed-Solomon and BCH codes

11:00-12:00: Supplemental lecture: Grobner bases

1:45-3:00: Encoding and decoding algorithms via Groebner bases

3:00-3:30: Tea/cookies, Blocker 156

3:30-5:00: Problem session for students to present solutions to HW problems, Blocker 156

Friday, May 19

8:30-9:30: Breakfast and coffee, Blocker 156

9:30-10:45: Algebraic-geometric Goppa codes and codes from order domains

1:45-3:00: The Berlekamp-Massey-Sakata decoding algorithm

3:00-3:30: Tea/cookies, Blocker 156

3:30-5:00: Problem session for students to present solutions to HW problems, Blocker 156

5:00-7:00: Barbecue dinner, area immediately outside Blocker 156

References:

[1] Huffman, W. Cary, and Pless, Vera, Fundamentals of Error-Correcting Codes, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

[2] Cox, D., Little, J., and O'Shea, D. Using Algebraic Geometry, 2nd edition, Springer, 2005. (Chapters 9 and 10)

[3] Fitzpatrick, P. "On the key equation," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory v. 41 (1995), 1290-1302. (The original source for the Groebner basis formulation of the decoding algorithms in Lecture 4 above)

[4] Geil, O. and Pellikaan, R. "On the Structure of Order Domains," Finite Fields Appl. v. 8 (2002), 369-396.

[5] Little, J. The Ubiquity of Order Domains for the Construction of Error Control Codes preprint: arXiv: math.AC/0304292. (shows how general the order domains in Lecture 5 actually are)

[6] Little, J. TAGS workshop notes: error control codes from algebra and geometry.