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{\LARGE \bf Coding Theory and Cryptology }
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{\bf Organizer}

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Shojiro Sakata (sakata@cs.uec.ac.jp) 

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{\bf Description}
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The session is devoted to providing a forum for exchange of ideas and research results related to
computer algebra (software and/or hardware) systems and algorithmic treatment of all kinds of
symbolic objects in application to coding theory and cryptography. Nowadays error-correcting
codes and cryptographic systems are important from both theoretical and practical reasons, and
there have been done many interesting investigations on them recently. We notice that Computer
Algebra, i.e. constructive algebraic methods and algebraic computations with developments and
applications of computational tools and systems are indispensable to theoretical and practical
works also in the field of coding theory and cryptology. 

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{\bf Talks}
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Date: July 17th (Wednesday) 

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\item[14:00--14:30] \ \\
  Armin Nueckel\\
  {\bf IDEAS: A Computer-algebra-based Chip Design Environment for Algebraic
    Computation, Coding and Signal Processing.
    } 
\item[14:30--15:00 ] \ \\
  Thomas Beth, Markus Grassl, Joern Mueller-Quade \\
  {\bf Algebra for Optical Computing and Quantum Computing.} 
\item[15:00--15:30] \ \\
  Andreas Stein\\
  {\bf Cryptographic Aspects Of Real Quadratic Congruence Function Fields.} 
\item[15:30--16:00] \ \\
  Franck Leprevost \\
  {\bf On Certain Torsion Subgroups of Jacobians of Decomposable Curves of Genus 2 and
    Its Applications to Symbolic Integration and Primality Proving.} 
\item[16:00--16:20 ] \ \\
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  {\bf Coffee Break} 
\item[16:20--17:00] \ \\
  Shojiro Sakata\\
  {\bf Groebner Basis: A Bridge between Coding Theory and Computer Algebra.} 
\item[17:00--17:30] \ \\
  Daniel Augot \\
  {\bf Computing Groebner Bases for Finding Codewords of Small Weight.} 
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