Virginia Tech Applied Algebra Seminar — Spring 2026

Thursdays • 10:00–11:00 am • 118 Steger Hall

January 15

Andrea Di Giusto (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e))

Asymptotic bounds for phased burst error correction

Ferdinando Zullo (Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli")

A geometric view on random access in DNA storage

This seminar will run 10:00-11:30, longer than the usual meeting time.
January 22

Marin Girard (Virginia Tech)

The emergence of classicality from quantum error correction

January 29

Maria Bras-Amorós (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Open problems on numerical semigroups and error correction codes

February 12

Kirsten Morris (Virginia Tech)

Combinatorial properties of quasi-dyadic codes over F_2

February 19

Delio Jaramillo Velez (University of La Laguna & Virginia Tech)

Contribution evaluation in federated learning under secure aggregation, Part 1

March 4

Delio Jaramillo Velez (University of La Laguna & Virginia Tech)

Contribution evaluation in federated learning under secure aggregation, Part 2

This seminar is on a Wednesday at 1:45, not the usual meeting day and time.
March 5

Emily Van Milligen (Virginia Tech)

Graph states on quantum networks

March 18

Farzad Farnoud (University of Virginia)

Constructing low-redundancy codes via distributed graph coloring

This seminar is on a Wednesday at 1:45, not the usual meeting day and time.
March 26

Brad Lackey (Microsoft)

CSS codes and the anticode perspective

April 2

Christine Kelley (University of Nebraska)

April 9

Ankith Mohan (Virginia Tech)

Hierarchical quantum decoders

April 23

Aditya Khanna (Virginia Tech)

Recursions and bijections: perspectives on polysymmetric functions

April 30

Nathan Kaplan (University of California Irvine)

May 7

Kigen Fukuda (Virginia Tech)

The grand challenge of PQC migration

May 14

Valentino Smaldore (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Tangent polar graphs

If accommodations are needed, please contact Stephanie Hedrick at steph2@vt.edu during regular business hours at least five business days before the event.