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Summer Program: Coding and Cryptography
Week 1 Codes, Design, and Cryptography
July 6-10, 1998

This part of the program will concentrate on finite geometries, designs, secret sharing schemes, schemes to detect deception and authentication, secret broadcasting schemes, and the construction of cryptographic schemes related to discrete objects. Both finite geometries and more generally combinatorial designs have been used in the analysis and construction of error correcting codes and secret sharing schemes. These uses will be explored to see if they can be utilized in other areas.

Schedule for Week 1

All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
SCHEDULE for MONDAY, JULY 6
8:45 am Registration and Coffee Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:15 am Fred Dulles
 Welcome and Orientation
9:30 am Vera Pless,
University of Illinois-Chicago		 Some Connections Between Coding Theory and Cryptography
10:30 am Break Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am Gustavus J. Simmons,
University of New Mexico		 Keyed Permutation Generators
2:00 pm Robert Calderbank,
AT&T Laboratories		 Orthogonal Geometry and Quantum Error Correction
4:00 pm IMA Tea Vincent Hall Room 502
SCHEDULE for TUESDAY, JULY 7
9:15 am Coffee Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:30 am Pascale Charpin,
INRIA-Rocquencourt		 The weights of primitive cyclic codes with two zeros
10:30 am Coffee Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am Grigori Kabatianski,
Russian Academy of Sciences		 Hash Distances of Codes
SCHEDULE for WEDNESDAY, JULY 8
9:15 am Coffee Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:30 am Juriaan Simonis,
Technical University of Delft		 Codes and projective multisets
10:30 am Break Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am Neil Sloane,
AT&T Laboratories		 The Grand Tour in Four Dimensions and Other Mysteries
2:00 pm Alexei Ashikhmin,
Los Alamos National Laboratory		 Upper Bounds on the Size of Quantum Codes
3:00 pm Coffee Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:30 pm Gary McGuire,
Colorado State University		 Characterization of Certain Cinimal Rank Designs
SCHEDULE for THURSDAY, July 9
9:15 am Coffee Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:30 am Kevin Phelps,
Auburn University		 Perfect codes
10:30 am Break Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am Spyros Magliveras,
University of Nebraska		 A Public key cryptosystem from logarithmic signatures of finite permutation groups
2:00 pm Emanuel Knill,
Los Alamos National Laboratory		 A Mathematician's Adventures in Experimental Quantum Error-Correction
3:00 pm Coffee Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:30 pm Vladimir D. Tonchev,
Michigan Technological University		 Linear Perfect Codes and a Characterization of the Classical Designs
6:00 pm Workshop Dinner  
SCHEDULE for FRIDAY, JULY 10
9:15 am Coffee Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:30 am Jack van Lint,
Technical University of Eindhoven		 Codes with the Identifiable Parent Property
10:30 am Coffee Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am Gilles Zemor,
ENTS		 Uniquely Decodable C odes
2:00 pm Nicolas Sendrier,
INRIA-Rocquencourt		 The Support Splitting Algorithm and Some of Its Applications
2:40 pm Coffee Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:00 pm Oscar Moreno,
University of Puerto Rico		 Codes, Communication Science, Expander Graphs and Exponential Sums

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Week 2:

  • Coding, Complexity and Cryptography
  • Sequences
    July 13-18, 1998

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