Venue: University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. Talks took place in CMC 147 on February 4–6 and CMC 141 on February 7.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Welcome Introduction by the Organizers
Morning Session
- 11:15am–11:45am | Pantelimon Stanica (Naval Postgraduate School) — Overconstrained Character Sums and Tower Decompositions of Generalized Bent, Plateaued and Landscape Functions
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
- 3:00pm–3:30pm | Alessandro Giannoni (University of Naples "Federico II") — Additive QMDS Codes Beyond the MDS Length Bound
- 3:30pm–3:45pm | Break
- 3:45pm–4:15pm | Ferdinando Zullo (Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli") — Linear analogs in additive combinatorics
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Morning Session
- 11:15am–11:45am | Andrea Ferraguti (University of Turin) — Frobenius and settled elements in iterated Galois extensions
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
- 3:00pm–3:30pm | Marco Timpanella (University of Perugia) — Algebraic-Geometric codes and their applications
- 3:30pm–3:45pm | Break
- 3:45pm–4:15pm | Matteo Bonini (Aalborg Universitet) — On the Tensor of Rank-Metric Codes
Friday, February 6, 2026
Morning Session
- 9:30am–10:00am | Giuseppe Marino (University of Naples "Federico II") — New MRD Codes from Linear Cutting Blocking Sets
- 10:00am–10:15am | Break
- 10:15am–10:45am | Giovanni Giuseppe Grimaldi (University of Perugia) — On the classification of ovoids in finite classical polar spaces
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
- 1:00pm–1:30pm | Giovanni Zini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) — Conics, Artin-Schreier extensions and automorphisms
- 1:30pm–1:45pm | Break
- 1:45pm–2:15pm | Alessandro Neri (University of Naples "Federico II") — New developments on the Etzion-Silberstein conjecture
- 2:15pm–2:30pm | Break
- 2:30pm–3:00pm | Giuseppe Cotardo (Virginia Tech) — Quantum Anticodes
- 3:00pm–3:45pm | Long Coffee Break
- 3:45pm–4:15pm | Hiram Lopez-Valdez (Virginia Tech) — An algebraic approach to Norm-trace codes
- 4:15pm–4:30pm | Break
- 4:30pm–5:00pm | Kirsten Morris (Virginia Tech) — Graphical Analysis of Codes from Quasi-Dyadic Matrices
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Morning Session
- 10:30am–11:00am | Herivelto Martins Borges (University of Sao Paulo) — Artin-Schreier Curves and the Number of Elements with Prescribed Norm and Trace
- 11:00am–11:15am | Break
- 11:15am–11:45am | Katie Haymaker (Villanova University) — Cycle Structure of Spatially-Coupled Codes: Theory and Constructions
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
- 2:00pm–2:30pm | Heide Gluesing-Luerssen (University of Kentucky) — The Cloud and Flock Polynomials of a q-Matroid
- 2:30pm–2:45pm | Break
- 2:45pm–3:15pm | Francesco Sica (Florida Atlantic University) — Cryptanalysis of the double-LIP
- 3:15pm–3:30pm | Break
- 3:30pm–4:00pm | Gretchen Matthews (Virginia Tech) — Permutation decoding Hermitian and norm-trace curves