Virginia Tech Applied Algebra Seminar — Fall 2025

Thursdays • 9:30-10:30 am • 118 Steger Hall

September 4

Lin Sok (Nanyang Technological University)

On the Hermitian construction of entanglement-assisted quantum error correcting codes from algebraic curves

September 18

Dror Baron (North Carolina State University)

Statistical signal processing for quantum error mitigation

This seminar is joint with the VTQ Seminar.
September 25

Xiaozhen Fu (University of Maryland)

Product construction of quantum codes

October 2

Adrián Fidalgo-Díaz (Universidad de Valladolid)

A combinatorial problem on Weierstrass semigroups motivated by distributed matrix multiplication

October 9

Rodrigo San Jose (Virginia Tech)

Maximum number of zeros of polynomials on weighted projective spaces (Part 1)

October 16

Rodrigo San Jose (Virginia Tech)

Maximum number of zeros of polynomials on weighted projective spaces (Part 2)

October 20

Elena Berardini (University of Bordeaux)

Classical linear code problems for fault-tolerant quantum error correction

This seminar is on a Monday 2:00-3:00 in 310 Kelly Hall, not the usual meeting time and place. It is in conjunction with ACTiVT workshop week which features an array of speakers.
October 21

Anthony Gomez-Fonseca (University of South Florida)

Using large-girth protograph-based LDPC codes constructed from permutation polynomials to design quantum error-correcting codes

This seminar is on a Tuesday 10:00-11:00 in 310 Kelly Hall, not the usual meeting time and place. It is in conjunction with ACTiVT workshop week which features an array of speakers.
October 22

Henry Chimal-Dzul (University of Texas San Antonio)

A family of linear codes from group algebras

This seminar is on a Wednesday 1:30-2:30 in 310 Kelly Hall, not the usual meeting time and place. It is in conjunction with ACTiVT workshop week which features an array of speakers.

November 6

Eduardo Camps (Virginia Tech)

Monomial codes from curves and varieties

November 13

Peng Gao (Virginia Tech)

LLM-powered cyber threat intelligence and security operations

This seminar is joint with the Integrated Security Seminar.
October 16

Keller Blackwell (Stanford University)

Limitations to computing quadratic functions on Reed-Solomon encoded data

This seminar is held on zoom only, not the usual meeting place.
If accommodations are needed, please contact Stephanie Hedrick at steph2@vt.edu during regular business hours at least five business days before the event.