Sabancı Algebra Seminar

Upcoming lectures

The Seminar has been put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Past lectures

Wed 26 Feb 2020 Michel Lavrauw: Tensors of format \( (2,3,3)\) and the symmetric representation of projective lines of \(3\times 3\) matrices (FENS G035, 13:40-14:30) slides
Wed 19 Feb 2020 Wilfried Meidl: Relative difference sets in \(\mathbb{F}_2^n\times \mathbb{Z}_{2^k}\) (FENS G035, 13:40-14:30)
Wed 12 Feb 2020 Selcen Sayıcı: On Abelian LCP of Codes over Chain Rings (FENS G035 12:40-13:30)

2019

Wed 11 Dec 2019 İpek Tuvay: G-equivalence on abelian group codes (FENS G035 13:40-14:30)
Wed 4 Dec 2019 Ayesha Qureshi: Polyomino ideals (FENS G035 13:40-14:30)
Wed 27 Nov 2019 Andrej Dujella: Rational Diophantine tuples and elliptic curves (FENS G035 13:40-14:30)
Wed 20 Nov 2019 Ferdinando Zullo: Scattered linear sets with respect to subspaces (FENS G035 13:40-14:30)
Wed 6 Nov 2019 Turgay Bayraktar: Expected depth of random real algebraic plane curves (FENS G035 13:40-14:30)
Wed 30 Oct 2019 Wade Hindes: Height growth rates in dynamical orbits (FENS G035 13:40-14:30)
Wed 23 Oct 2019 Michel Lavrauw: Rank two commutative semifields (FENS G035 13:40-14:30)
Wed 16 Oct 2019 Burçin Güneş: On nilpotent automorphism groups of function fields (FENS G035 13:40-14:30)
Wed 9 Oct 2019 Michel Lavrauw: On linear codes from incidence geometries (FENS G035 13:40-14:30)
Wed 2 Oct 2019 Nurdagül Anbar Meidl: On the Walsh spectrum of recent APN functions (FENS G035 13:40-14:30)
Thu 25 Apr 2019 Giorgos Kapetanakis: The line and the translate problems for r-primitive elements (FENS G035, 13:40)
Thu 18 Apr 2019 Ezgi Kantarcı: A Queer Crystal Structure on Shifted Tableaux (FENS G035, 13:40)
Thu 11 Apr 2019 Mohammad Sadek: How often does a polynomial hit a square? (FENS G035, 13:40) slides
Thu 4 Apr 2019 Nurdagül Anbar Meidl: Permutations of the form x^k-γ Tr(x) and curves over finite fields (FENS G035, 13:40)
Thu 14 Mar 2019 Cem Güneri: Linear Complementary Dual Codes and Linear Complementary Pair of Codes (FENS G035, 13:40)
Thu 7 Mar 2019 Wilfried Meidl: Bent functions, their properties, and related objects (FENS G035, 13:40)
Thu 28 Feb 2019 Tekgül Kalaycı: Irreducible factors of a class of permutation polynomials (FENS G035, 13:40)
Thu 07 Feb 2019 Simeon Ball: On arcs and MDS codes (FENS G015, 14:40)

2018

Thu 20 Dec 2018 Anton Betten: The Hilbert, Cohn-Vossen cubic surface (FENS G015, 12:40)
Thu 13 Dec 2018 Daniele Bartoli: Low-degree planar polynomials over finite fields of characteristic two (FENS G015, 12:40)
Thu 22 Nov 2018 Michel Lavrauw: Recent progress on the MDS conjecture (FENS G015, 12:40)
Thu 15 Nov 2018 Erkay Savaş: A very Brief Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography (FENS G015, 12:40) slides
Thu 08 Nov 2018 Ekin Özman: Diophantine Equations and Modularity (FENS G015, 12:40)
Thu 25 Oct 2018 Jehanne Dousse: Exact and asymptotic enumeration of integer partitions (FENS G015, 12:40)
Thu 04 Oct 2018 Seher Tutdere: The covering radii of a class of binary cyclic codes and some BCH codes (FENS G015, 12:40)
Thu 27 Sep 2018 Nour Alnajjarine: On character degrees of finite groups and some associated graphs (FENS G015, 12:40)
Thu 24 May 2018 Benjamin Matschke: Solving S-unit equations via the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture (FENS L027, 13:40)
Thu 10 May 2018 Leyla Ateş: A proof of Minkowski's second theorem on successive minima (FENS L055, 13:40)
Thu 19 Apr 2018 Kağan Kurşungöz: Andrews-Gordon type companions for Capparelli's identity, and the Kanade-Russell conjectures (FENS L055, 13:40)
Thu 12 Apr 2018 Funda Özdemir: On the additive cyclic structure of quasi-cyclic codes (FENS L055, 13:40)
Thu 01 Mar 2018 Eda Yildiz: Quantum error correcting codes (FENS L055, 13:40)
Thu 22 Feb 2018 Turgay Bayraktar: Zero distribution of random modular forms (FENS L055, 13:40)

2017

Wed 27 Dec 2017 Giorgos Kapetanakis: Prescribing coefficients of invariant irreducible polynomials, Part II (FENS L065, 11:40)
Wed 13 Dec 2017 Elif Saçıkara: Concatenated Structure of q-abelian Codes and a Resulting Minimum Distance Bound (FENS L065, 11:40)
Thu 07 Dec 2017 John Sheekey: Algebraic constructions of semifields and maximum rank distance codes (Math Colloquium)
Wed 22 Nov 2017 Giorgos Kapetanakis: Prescribing coefficients of invariant irreducible polynomials, Part I (FENS L065, 11:40)
Wed 15 Nov 2017 Ayhan Günaydın: Combinatorics, model theory and machine learning (Math Colloquium)
Tue 07 Nov 2017 Fatma Karaoglu: On Cubic Surfaces (FASS 1089, 14:40-16-30)
Thu 02 Nov 2017 Fatma Karaoglu: On Classification Problems in Finite Geometry (FENS L065, 14:40-16-30)
Thu 02 Nov 2017 Anton Betten: Classifying cubic surfaces over small finite fields (Math Colloquium)
Thu 12 Oct 2017 Gülizar Günay: Arcs, ovals and Segre's theorem (FENS L065, 14:40-16-30)

Contact: Algebra, Number Theory and Combinatorics, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey. People interested in receiving the announcements of this seminar or giving a talk at the seminar are invited to contact Michel Lavrauw or Mohammad Sadek.