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Postdoctoral researcher Nurdagül Anbar will give a talk on June 3rd on the N-cube days at KU. At this workshop several researchers on number theory will present their work. Nurdagül will talk about recent results on the asymptotic p-rank of towers of function fields.

Starting the 1st of June, Mrinmoy Datta will become a member of the algebra group in the section for mathematics at DTU Compute. He obtained a prestigious two-year postdoctoral research grant from DFF-FNU for the project Intersection of hypersurfaces: the fundament of algebraic coding theory (Grant No. 6108-00362).

Mrinmoy obtained his Ph.D. degree in mathematics at IIT-Bombay (India), under the supervision of Prof. S.R. Ghorpade. The algebra group looks forward to working together with Mrinmoy in the coming two years!

The article “The structure of dual Grassmann codes” by Peter Beelen and Fernando Piñero has just appeared in the high ranking journal Designs, Codes and Cryptography (DCC). Co-author Fernando Piñero is an old acquaintance of the algebra group: Fernando did his Ph.D. between 2011-2014 supervised by Peter Beelen and Prof. Emeritus Tom Høholdt. After his Ph.D. Fernando became a postdoc at the IIT-Bombay, India. Currently he is working at the UPR (University Puerto Rico).

During the week 18. April to 22. April, the black board in Mathematicum was filled with algebraic curves and Riemann-Roch spaces as Alain Couvreur from Inria, France, visited us.
Alain Couvreur is a leading expert on algebraic geometry and coding theory, and we spent the week looking into high-performance decoding of Algebraic Geometry codes.

Together with Canadian researcher Arne Storjohann, Johan Nielsen has written the paper “Algorithms for Simultaneous Padé Approximations” which has been accepted to the prestigious conference ISSAC: International Symposium in Symbolic and Algebraic Computation.

ISSAC 2016 will be held in Waterloo, Canada in July. Johan will go there and present the results. In fact, he will spend the entire month of July with the Symbolic Computation group at University of Waterloo.

During 4-11 March, Peter Beelen visited Boğaziçi university in Istanbul to work with his long-time collaborator Alp Bassa. Together with post doctoral researcher Nurdagül Anbar (currently working at DTU), they finished a paper in which several existing towers of function fields are explained using the theory of Drinfeld modules.

Peter also gave a talk on The order bound for AG codes at the Istanbul center for mathematical sciences (IMBM) located on the Boğaziçi university campus.

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