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Applied Algebra Days IV

University of South Florida,
June 10-12 2026.

Venue: Talks will take place in the CMC 147 room (USF Advanced Visualization Center)

Wednesday June 10

Coding Theory Foundations 1

Chair: Jean-Francois Biasse · 9:00am–11:45am
  • 09:00 AM – 09:50 AM | Felice Manganiello — Title: On CP Code Cardinality and Metric Comparison for Complex Analog Operator Channels
  • 09:55 AM – 10:25 AM | Mahdi Cheraghchi — Title: Optimal Erasure Codes and Codes on Graphs
  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Morning Coffee Break
  • 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Daniel Bossaler — Title: Repair Schemes for Linear codes over Frobenius Rings

Lunch Break

Top of the Palms. 12:00pm-02:00pm

Coding Theory Foundations 2

Chair: Freeman Slaughter · 2:00pm–5:00pm
  • 02:00 PM – 02:50 PM | Jay Wood — Title: Additive codes over finite abelian groups
  • 02:55 PM – 03:45 PM | Alexandra Hostetler — Title: List-decoding Reed-Solomon Codes over the Lee, Euclidean, and Other Metrics
  • 03:45 PM – 04:15 PM | Afternoon Coffee Break
  • 04:15 PM – 05:00 PM | Henry Chimal-Dzul — Title: Quasi-Twisted Codes: Trace Codes and Subfield Subcodes

Thursday June 11

Post Quantum Cryptography

Chair: Dmytro Savchuk · 9:00am–11:45am
  • 09:00 AM – 09:50 AM | Jason LeGrow — Title: Post-Quantum Threshold Cryptography from Commutative Group Actions
  • 09:55 AM – 10:25 AM | Freeman Slaughter — Title: RaCSS: An Improved Rank-CVE Signature Scheme
  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Morning Coffee Break
  • 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Travis Morrison — Title: The supersingular isogeny problem: faster algorithms and a sharper cost model

Lunch Break

Top of the Palms. 12:00pm-02:00pm

Secure Computations & Recoverability

Chair: Tefjol Pllaha · 2:00pm–5:00pm
  • 02:00 PM – 02:50 PM | Venkata Gandikota — Title: Homomorphic Error Correcting Codes
  • 02:55 PM – 03:45 PM | Geyang Wang — Title: The maximal hard-core model as a recoverable system
  • 03:45 PM – 04:15 PM | Afternoon Coffee Break
  • 04:15 PM – 05:00 PM | Rafael D'Oliveira — Title: Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication

Social Event

World of Beer. 6:00pm-8:00pm

Friday June 12

Lattices, Equivalence & APN Functions

Chair: Alexandra Hostetler · 9:00am–12:00pm
  • 09:00 AM – 09:45 AM | Huck Bennett — Title: On (Non-)Isomorphism of Self-Dual Lattices and Codes
  • 09:50 AM – 10:20 AM | Joseph Fields — Title: An ulterior motive for studying Error-Correcting codes - the thirty years war
  • 10:20 AM – 10:50 AM | Morning Coffee Break
  • 10:50 AM – 11:20 AM | Mohamed Osama Darwish — Title: Functional Graphs of Linear Maps from Drinfeld Modules
  • 11:25 AM – 11:55 PM | Moises Delgado Olortegui — Title: Recent Advances on the Conjecture of Exceptional APN Functions

Lunch Break

Top of the Palms. 12:00pm-02:00pm

Free afternoon and Discussions

CMC 130 · 2:00pm–5:00pm