Virginia Tech Applied Algebra Seminar — Fall 2025

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

September 4

Speaker: Lin Sok (Nanyang Technological University)

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

September 18

Speaker: Dror Baron (North Carolina State University)

Title: Statistical signal processing for quantum error mitigation

This seminar is joint with the VTQ Seminar.
September 25

Speaker: Xiaozhen Fu (University of Maryland)

Title: Product construction of quantum codes

October 2

Speaker: Adrián Fidalgo-Díaz (Universidad de Valladolid)

Title:A combinatorial problem on Weierstrass semigroups motivated by distributed matrix multiplication

October 9

Speaker: Rodrigo San Jose (Virginia Tech)

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

October 16

Speaker: Rodrigo San Jose (Virginia Tech)

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

October 20

Speaker: Elena Berardini (University of Bordeaux)

Title: 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

Speaker: Anthony Gomez-Fonseca (University of South Florida)

Title: 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

Speaker: Henry Chimal-Dzul (University of Texas San Antonio)

Title: 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

Speaker: Eduardo Camps (Virginia Tech)

Title: Monomial codes from curves and varieties

November 13

Speaker: Peng Gao (Virginia Tech)

Title: LLM-powered cyber threat intelligence and security operations

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

Speaker: Keller Blackwell (Stanford University)

Title: 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.