Workshop on Finite Fields, Function Fields and Their Applications
April 26-27, 2018, Karaköy Minerva Palas, İstanbul
The aim of the workshop is to gather researchers in finite fields, function fields and their applications. Besides theoretical beauty and interest, finite fields and function fields have been influential in applications such as coding theory, cryptography and sequences. Invited speakers cover a wide range of topics in these areas, including sequences and polynomials over finite fields, cryptographically significant functions, algortihmic problems over finite fields, finite geometry, curves over finite fields and related asymptotic problems, and coding theory. The workshop will enable discussion of the most recent developments and interesting open problems in these areas, and will be a great opportunity for young researchers to learn from and communicate with some of the most active researchers in these topics.
There will be no registration fee. If you want to participate, please contact wffa@sabanciuniv.edu.
Alev Topuzoğlu received her BSc in Mathematics from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, and completed her PhD at the University of London in 1982. She worked at METU Mathematics Department from 1980 until she joined Sabancı University (SU) as a member of the "core faculty" in 1998, a year before the education started at SU. During 1992-1998, she also worked at the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). She carried out research at the Technical University, Darmstadt, the Institute of Experimental Mathematics, Essen, RICAM, Linz, and Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg.
Her research interests are in polynomials over finite fields, particularly permutation polynomials in one or several variables, Boolean functions, generalizations, applications in pseudorandom sequences, and also uniform distribution mod 1 of sequences.
Henning Stichtenoth studied Mathematics at the Universities of Hannover and Heidelberg, received his Diplom and PhD in Mathematics from Heidelberg in 1969 and 1972, respectively. He worked at the University of Mannheim during 1972-1975, and then at the University of Essen until he joined Sabancı University (SU) in 2007. He has been an emeritus professor at SU since 2013. He had long research visits to IMPA, Rio de Janeiro and the University of Southern California, and many shorter visits to universities/institutions worldwide, including Cambridge, Beijing, Copenhagen.
His research interests are algebraic function fields and curves (particularly in positive characteristic), coding theory and finite fields. He is the author of the reference book for many, titled "Algebraic Function Fields and Codes".
Minerva Palas, Bankalar Caddesi 2,
Karaköy,
34420 İstanbul