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!
The algebra group is happy to host Professor Luciane Quoos from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro as a guest in the period January 3– January 17. Maria and Luciane have worked already together in the past on maximal curves, AG codes and Locally recoverable codes.
During her stay, Luciane will work with Jonathan, Peter and Maria on a class of non-isomorphic maximal curves.
Maria has accepted to become member of the editorial board of the Elsevier journal “Journal of Computational algebra”. The Journal of Computational Algebra publishes novel research about computation in, and with, algebraic or discrete structures, such that both mathematics and algorithms contribute to the new result.
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!
You can now find a new preprint on the preprint server arXiv. In the article, written by Peter and associate professor Vincent Neiger from Sorbonne University, you can find how to decode AG codes even faster than previously known. This work on this article was started when Vincent visited the algebra group in August 2022 and is a part of the outcome of the DFF-FNU project Correcting on a Curve.
Maria and Lara will participate in the conference Conference On alGebraic varieties over fiNite fields and Algebraic geometry Codes (COGNAC), which will take place February 13-17 at CIRM, Luminy in France.
Maria is in fact an invited speaker and will give the first talk of the conference. The title of her talk is “Algebraic curves with many rational points over finite fields”. Lara’s talk, titled “Weierstrass semigroups at the F_{q^2}-rational points of a maximal curve with the third largest genus”, will be about her latest research with Peter and Maria.