Applied Algebra Days I

Coding Theory

• 9:00am–9:45am | Felice Manganiello (Clemson) — External Codes for Multiple Unicast Networks via Interference Alignment
• 9:45am–10:30am | Julia Shapiro (Virginia Tech) — Multishot Capacity of Networks with Restricted Adversaries
• 10:30am–11:00am | Break
• 11:00am–11:45am | Shujun Zhao (U of South Florida) — On a Conjecture about the Sum-Freedom of the Binary Multiplicative Inverse Function · Video

Lunch Break

Isomorphism Problems

• 1:30pm–2:15pm | Lucas LaBuff (U of Maryland College Park) — Asymptotic Improvements to Provable Algorithms for the Code Equivalence Problem · Video
• 2:15pm–3:00pm | Huck Bennett (U of Colorado Boulder) — Relating Code Equivalence to Other Isomorphism Problems · Video
• 3:00pm–3:30pm | Break
• 3:30pm–4:15pm | Jingbo Liu (Texas A&M University San Antonio) — On the Spinor Genus and Lattice Isomorphism Problem Talk cancelled.
• 4:15pm–5:00pm | Dipayan Das (Florida Atlantic University) — On the Finite Field Isomorphism Problem · Video

Welcome Reception

Quantum Error Correcting Codes

• 9:00am–9:45am | Giuseppe Cotardo (Virginia Tech) — An Anticode Approach to Quantum Error Correction
• 9:45am–10:30am | Kirsten Morris (U of Nebraska Lincoln) — Analysis and Improvement of QLDPC Decoding Performance
• 10:30am–11:00am | Break
• 11:00am–11:45am | Lev Stambler (U of Maryland College Park) — Information Theoretic One-Time Programs from Geometrically Local QNC_0 Adversaries · Video

Lunch Break

Isogeny

• 1:30pm–2:00pm | Jason LeGrow (Virginia Tech) — Duality Lower Bounds for the Cost of CSIDH Group Action Evaluation
• 2:00pm–2:30pm | Gabrielle Scullard (U of Georgia) — Ihara Zeta Functions of Isogeny Graphs
• 2:30pm–3:00pm | Break
• 3:00pm–4:00pm | Kirsten Eisenträger (Penn State University) — Cryptography Based on Supersingular Isogenies · Video
• 4:00pm–4:15pm | Break
• 4:15pm–5:00pm | Wissam Ghantous (U of Central Florida) — Cycles in the Generalized Supersingular l-isogeny Graph and more on Brandt Matrices

Dinner

Activities at Riverfront Park

Picnic at Riverfront Park

Group Based Cryptography

• 2:00pm–2:45pm | Vladimir Shpilrain (City College NY) — Cayley Hash Functions
• 2:45pm–3:30pm | Alexander Ushakov (Stevens Institute of Technology) — Simultaneous Conjugacy Problem for the Grigorshuk Group: Polynomial Time Solution
• 3:30pm–4:00pm | Break

REU Flash Talks

Quantum Computing

• 4:30pm–5:15pm | Tefjol Pllaha (University of South Florida) — The Clifford Hierarchy
• 5:15pm–6:00pm | Joseph Carolan (U of Maryland College Park) — On the Quantum Security of the Sponge Construction

Dinner