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Applied Algebra Days II

Florida Atlantic University,
October 11–12, 2025.

Venue: BU 109, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida.

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Morning Session

9:00am–12:30pm
  • 9:00am–9:45am | Hiram Lopez Valdez (Virginia Tech) — A polynomial representation of the permutation group of a code
  • 9:45am–10:30am | Emily McMillion (Rice University) — Quasi-cyclic Codes from Reed-Solomon Codes and the Kautz-Singleton Construction
  • 10:30am–11:00am | Break
  • 11:00am–11:45am | Henry Chimal Dzul (UT San Antonio) — Linear codes from group algebras
  • 11:45am–12:30pm | Alexandra Veliche Hostetler (USF) — List Decoding Reed–Solomon Codes in the Lee, Euclidean, and Other Metrics

Lunch Break

12:30pm–2:00pm

Afternoon Session

2:00pm–4:45pm
  • 2:00pm–2:45pm | Tyler Genao (Ohio State University) — Growth of torsion groups of elliptic curves in geometric isogeny classes
  • 2:45pm–3:30pm | Jason LeGrow (Virginia Tech) — Post-Quantum Blind Signatures from Matrix Code Equivalence
  • 3:30pm–4:00pm | Break
  • 4:00pm–4:45pm | William Youmans (Clemson) — A Quasi-polynomial Time Algorithm for the Extrapolated Dihedral Coset Problem over Power-of-Two Moduli

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Morning Session

9:00am–12:30pm
  • 9:00am–9:45am | Hansraj Jangir (FAU) — An algebraic algorithm for breaking NTRU with multiple keys
  • 9:45am–10:30am | Anthony Gomez Fonseca (USF) — On Quantum Error-Correcting Codes with Large Girth Using Protograph-based LDPC Codes Constructed from Permutation Polynomials
  • 10:30am–11:00am | Break
  • 11:00am–11:45am | Freeman Slaughter (USF) — SLVer Bullet: Straight-Line Verification for Bulletproofs
  • 11:45am–12:30pm | Luca Bastioni (USF) — Rank-Metric Codes from Drinfeld Modules