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.