New postdoc Anina Gruica starts

Today a new postdoc will start in the algebra group: Anina Gruica. Anina very recently obtained her PhD degree at the university of Eindhoven in April 2024. Nonetheless, she already has five published journal papers and four conference papers (more details can be found here here).

During her two-years postdoc, Anina will work on rank-metric codes, a type of codes studied in connection to data-transmission over networks. Anina’s postdoc is financed by Maria’s Villum YIP project CREATE. Welcome to the group Anina!

The algebra group is happy to host Associate Professor Vincent Neiger from the Université de Sorbonne as a guest in the period June 19 – July 4. Vincent has visited DTU before in 2022 and actually has been a postdoc of the algebra group before that in 2017.

Vincent will work with Peter and Maria on further improvements on the decoding of algebraic geometry codes.

Jonathan and Peter participated in the conference Combinatorics 2024 (June 3-7), which took place in Carovigno, Italy. Both gave well received talks, Peter as invited plenary speaker, Jonathan as contributing speaker. It was wonderful to participate in this great conference.

More information about the talks and the participants can be found here. A link to the slides of Peter’s talk is given here and of Jonathan’s talk here.

On May 30, Peter gave an invited talk at the Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø) in connection with a meeting of the Nordic Number theory Network. The topic of the talk was algebraic curves over finite fields with many rational points.

In the period May 6-18, the algebra group will be visited by Assistant Prof. Mrinmoy Datta (IIT Hyderabad). Mrinmoy has been a postdoc in the algebra group in the past, so we will be welcoming back an old friend. The goal of the visit is to study properties of a famous maximal curve: the Hermitian curve.

A new preprint on a maximal curve with third largest genus is now available on arXiv here.

The authors are algebra group members Peter Beelen and Maria Montanucci as well as our former Ph.D. student Lara Vicino. This work was started during Lara’s time as a Ph.D. student, but the final touches of this work could only be given recently. We hope that more collaboration with Lara will take place in the future!

A new preprint on a family of non-isomorphic maximal curves is now available on arXiv here.

It was written by algebra group members Peter Beelen, Maria Montanucci and Jonathan Tilling Niemann together with Luciane Quoos from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The work was initiated when Luciane visited the algebra group in connection with the Ph.D. defence of Lara Vicino.

Lara has defended her Ph.D. thesis today successfully. The defense went very well and her Ph.D. thesis got an excellent evaluation. Next month, Lara will start a 2-year postdoc position in the mathematics department of the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). Many congratulations to Lara for obtaining her Ph.D. degree as well as finding a job as a postdoctoral researcher!

In the period November 28 – December 4, Peter will teach a course on algebraic error-correcting codes in connection to a CIMPA school in Hyderabad (India). This will be a great opportunity to share knowledge about algebraic codes with young scientists from all over the world. The school is followed by a one week conference in connection to the 60th birthday of Prof. Sudhir R. Ghorpade, who is a frequent co-author of Peter and who has visited DTU many times. Congratulations to Sudhir!

Last Friday, during DTU’s annual party, Maria obtained the prestigious teacher-of-the-year award. Each year, it is awarded to two teachers who have obtained exceptionally good teaching evaluations. It was her teaching in the course Discrete mathematics 2: algebra, which motivated and impressed the students so much that several of them suggested that the award should go to Maria this year.

Congratulations to Maria with this excellent result!