Fifth International Conference on

Finite Fields and Applications

August 2 - 6, 1999
University of Augsburg, Germany

List of Participants


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Name
E-Mail
Affiliation, Country
Abstract Titel (only for speakers)


A


Kanat Abdukhalikov
abdukhalikov@math.kz , kanat@lums.edu.pk
Institute of Mathematics, Almaty , Kazakhstan
Projective generalized Reed-Muller codes over p-adic integers and finite rings

Mohammad Reza Alagheband
alaghban@math.sharif.ac.ir
Sharif University of Technology, Teheran , Iran

Ilia Aleshnikov
mat314@sp2.power.uni-essen.de
Universität Essen , Germany

Krishnasamy Arasu
karasu@math.Wright.edu
Wright State University, Dayton , USA
Affine analog of the Waterloo problem (with J.F. Dillon, K.H. Leung, S.L. Ma )

Yves Aubry
aubry@math.unicaen.fr
Universite de Caen , France

Mohamed Ayad
ayad@lma.univ-littoral.fr
Universite du Littoral, Calais , France


B


Simeon Ball
simeon@win.tue.nl
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven , The Netherlands
Lacunary polynomials over finite fields (with A.Blokhuis )

Angela Barbero
angbar@wmatem.eis.uva.es
University of Valladolid , Spain

Claudio Bartolone
cg@dipmat.math.unipa.it
University of Palermo , Italy

Lynn Batten
batten@cc.umanitoba.ca
University of Manitoba , Canada
On Chen's construction of minimum distance five codes

Eva Bayer-Fluckiger
bayer@vega.univ-fcomte.fr
Universite de Franche-Comte, Besancon , France
Self-dual normal bases and related topics

Gerhard Behrendt
Amt für Militärkunde , Germany

Clark T. Benson
ctbenso@afterlife.ncsc.mil
Department of Defense , USA

Thomas Beth
EISS_Office@ira.uka.de
Universität Karlsruhe , Germany

Simon R. Blackburn
s.blackburn@rhbnc.ac.uk
University of London , United Kingdom
The self-shrinking generator

Werner Bley
bley@math.uni-augsburg.de
Universität Augsburg , Germany

Aart Blokhuis
aartb@win.tue.nl
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven , The Netherlands
Lacunary polynomials over finite fields (with S. Ball )

Igor Boyarinov
user@comcp.msk.su
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow , Russia
On the extended error-correcting capabilities of the Preparata Codes

Julia Nowlin Brown
juliamnb@yorku.ca
York University , Canada

Marco Buratti
buratti@marte.mat.uniroma1.it
Universita de L'Aquila , Italy
Regular and 1-rotational designs with the use of finite fields


C


Emrah Cakcak
cakcak@metu.edu.tr
Middle East Technical University, Ankara , Turkey
A remark on the minimal polynomial of the product of linear recurring sequences

Mireille Car
mireille.car@math.u-3mrs.fr
Universite Aix_Marseille III , France
Gelfond-Gramain's theorem for function fields

Claude Carlet
Claude.Carlet@info.unicaen.fr
Universite de Caen , France
On generalized bent and q-ary perfect nonlinear functions (with S. Dubuc )

Francis N. Castro
fcastro@goliath.cnnet.clu.edu
University of Puerto Rico , Puerto Rico
Improvement to the Adolphson-Sperber's Result (with O. Moreno )

Cinzia Cerroni
cerroni@math.fu-berlin.de
University of Palermo , Italy
Divisible designs formed by planes of projective spaces (with R.H. Schulz )

Yaotsu Chang
ytchang@csa500.isu.edu.tw
I-Shou University , Taiwan
Normal bases over GF(p)

Chris Charnes
charnes@cs.uow.edu.au
University of Wollongong , Australia
The ovoids in $\Omega^+(8,5)$ are known (with U. Dempwolff )

Wun-Seng Chou
macws@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw
Academia Sinica , Taiwan
Polynomial distribution and sequences of irreducible polynomials over finite fields (with St.D. Cohen )

Stephen D. Cohen
sdc@maths.gla.ac.uk
University of Glasgow , United Kingdom
Some permutations

Gunther Cornelissen
gc@cage.rug.ac.be
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik , Germany
2-power torsion points on Jacobians of certain hyperelliptic curves over finite fields

Robert Coulter
shrub@csee.uq.edu.au
The University of Queensland , Australia
Bilinear polynomials that permute Fq (with M. Henderson )

Robert Craigen
craigen@fresno.edu
Universitz of Manitoba , Canada
Factorizing Hall polynomials of complementary pairs over finite fields


D


James A. Davis
jdavis@richmond.edu
University of Richmand , USA
Construction of relative difference sets in low rank 2-groups using Galois rings (with Q. Xiang )

Vinay Deolalikar
deolalik@scf-fs.usc.edu
University of Southern California, Los Angeles , USA
Towards a basis for the space of regular functions in a tower of function fields meeting the Drinfeld-Vladut bound (with I. Aleshnikov, V. Kumar, H. Stichtenoth )

Hans Dobbertin
dobbertin@skom.rhein.de
German Information Security Agency , Germany
Almost perfect nonlinear power functions on GF(2n): a new case for n divisible by 5

Sylvie Dubuc
Sylvie.Dubuc@info.unicaen.fr
Universite de Caen , France
On generalized bent and q-ary perfect nonlinear functions (with C. Carlet )

Iwan Duursma
duursma@unilim.fr
University of Limoges , France
Sudan's key equation and syndrome extension


E


Jörg Eisfeld
Joerg.Eisfeld@math.uni-giessen.de
University of Giessen , Germany
Dynamic codes

Michele Elia
elia@polito.it
Politecnico di Torino , Italy
Primes in algebraic number rings and irreducible polynomials over finite fields

Andreas Enge
enge@math.uni-augsburg.de
University of Augsburg , Germany


F


J. Chris Fisher
fisher@math.uregina.ca
University of Regina , Canada

Otto Forster
forster@rz.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de
Ludwig Maximilian Universität , Germany

Ralf Franken
franken@mi.uni-erlangen.de
Universität Erlangen , Germany

Christian Fremuth-Paeger
fremuth@math.uni-augsburg.de
University of Augsburg , Germany

Gerhard Frey
frey@exp-math.uni-essen.de
Universität Essen , Germany
Discrete logarithm systems and their Galois theoretical background

Ryoh Fuji-Hara
fujihara@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences , Japan


G


Shuhong Gao
sgao@math.clemson.edu
Clemson University , USA
A new method for factoring multivariate polynomials

Joachim von zur Gathen
gathen@uni-paderborn.de
Universität Paderborn , Germany
Gauss periods

Pierrick Gaudry
gaudry@lix.polytechnique.fr
Ecole Polytechnique LIX , France

Max Gebhardt
gebhardt@math.uni-sb.de
Universität des Saarlandes , Germany

Jean Georgiades
Siemens AG , Germany

Holger Glaab
glaab@math.uni-augsburg.de
University of Augsburg , Germany

Solomon W. Golomb
milly@mizar.usc.edu
University of Southern California, Los Angeles , USA
Polynomials over GF(2) -- solved and unsolved problems

Rainer Göttfert
gottfert@uni-paderborn.de
Siemens AG Austria , Austria
On the factorization of polynomials over finite fields of large characteristic

Bjoern Grohmann
grohmann@ira.uka.de
Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

Harald Gropp
d12@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Universität Heidelberg , Germany
Realizations of incidence structures over finite fields

Cem Guneri
guneri@math.lsu.edu
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge , USA
Computing Riemann-Roch spaces on smooth curves using Macaulay2

Christian Guenther
Siemens AG , Germany

Stanley Gurak
gurak@pwa.acusd.edu
University of San Diego , USA
Period Polynomials for Fp2 of fixed small degree


H


Dirk Hachenberger
hachenberger@math.uni-augsburg.de
Universität Augsburg , Germany
qn -1 and xn -1 : on primitive normal bases

Sven Hartmann
sven.hartmann@mathematik.uni-rostock.de
Universität Rostock , Germany
Orthogonal decompositions of complete digraphs

Andreas Hefele
andreas.hefele@math.uni-augsburg.de
University of Augsburg , Germany

Christoph Hering
christoph.hering@uni-tuebingen.de
University of Tübingen , Germany

Agnes E. Heydtmann
agnes@math.uni-sb.de
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby , Deemark
Decoding Reed-Muller codes beyond half the minimum distance (with Th. Jakobsen )

Yutaka Hiramine
hiramine@gpo.kumamoto-u.ac.jp
Kumamoto University , Japan
On non-abelian semi-regular relative difference sets (with D. Elvira )

James Hirschfeld
jwph@sussex.ac.uk
University of Sussex , United Kingdom
The number of rational points on an algebraic curve (with G. Korchmaros )

Markus Christian Holder
holder@exp-math.uni-essen.de
Universität GH Essen , Germany
Improvement of Cantor's multiplication of high degree polynomials

Thomas Honold
honold@mathematik.tu-muenchen.de
Technische Universität München , Germany
MacWilliams identities for linear codes over finite Frobenius rings (with I. Landjev )

Daniel Hughes
dan@publigraphic.it
QMW London , United Kingdom

Petra Huhn
huhn@math.uni-augsburg.de
University of Augsburg , Germany


J


Youngho Jang
yhjang@math.inha.ac.kr
Sogang University, Seoul , South Korea

Jonathan Jedwab
jij@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol , United Kingdom

Bernt Tore Jensen
berntj@math.ntnu.no
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim , Norway

Arpad Jordan
jordana@math.bme.hu
Technical University of Budapest , Hungary
On the distribution of partial correlation sets

Wibke Jürgensen
wibke@math.uni-bremen.de
Universität Bremen , Germany
Irreducible polynomials generated by decimations (with F. v. Haeseler )

Dieter Jungnickel
jungnickel@math.uni-augsburg.de
Universität Augsburg , Germany


K


Alice Keller
liz@math.uni-sb.de
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken , Germany
Cyclotomic function fields with many rational places

Gurgen Khachatrian
gurgenkh@forof.sci.am
Armenian National Academy of Sciences , Armenia
Fast algorithms for elliptic curve cryptosystems (with M.K. Kuregian )

Hadi Kharaghani
hadi@cs.uleth.ca
University of Lethbridge , Canada
On the twin designs with the Ionin parameters

Dae San Kim
dskim@ccs.sogang.ac.kr
Sogang University, Seoul , South Korea

Volodymyr Kirichenko
vkir@mechmat.univ.kiev.ua
Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University , Ukraine
On the Brauer monoid for finite fields (with B. Novikov )

Andreas Könen
koenen@wfb.bn.uunet.de
Amt für Militärkunde , Germany

Anatoly Kochubei
ank@ank.kiev.ua
Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kiev , Ukraine
Calculus for additive functions over function fields

Gabor Korchmaros
University of Basilicata, Potenza , Italy
Fermat curves over a finite field (with T. Szönyi )


L


Tanja Lange
ta.lange@tu-bs.de
Technische Universität Braunschweig , Germany
Algorithms for factoring polynomials over arbitrary finite fields

Phillipe Langevin
langevin@univ-tln.fr
Universite de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis , France
Gauss sums over quasi-Frobenius rings (with Patrick Sole )

Alain Lasjaunias
lasjauni@math.u-bordeaux.fr
Universite de Bordeaux, IBM Laboratiore A2X , France

Alan Lauder
alauder@dms.auburn.edu
University of London , United Kingdom
Multivariate polynomials over finite fields and convex polytopes (with Sh. Gao )

Michel Lavrauw
lavrauw@win.tue.nl
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven , The Netherlands
Scattered subspaces with respect to a spread in a projective space

Uwe Leck
uleck@obelix.math.uni-rostock.de
Universität Rostock , Germany
Orthogonal double covers of complete graphs by paths

Ronald Clive Ledgard
ron@ma.man.ac.uk
University of Manchester , United Kingdom

In-Sok Lee
islee@math.snu.ac.kr
Seoul National University , South Korea

Pil Joong Lee
pjl@postech.ac.kr
Pohang University of Science & Technology , South Korea

Alar Leibak
aleibak@edu.ttu.ee
Tallinn Technical University , Estonia

Hanfried Lenz
Freie Universität Berlin , Germany

Ka Hin Leung
matlkh@nus.edu.sg
National University of Singapore , Singapore
A construction of semi-regular relative difference sets

Bernhard Löhlein
bernhard.loehlein@fernuni-hagen.de
Fernuniversität Hagen , Germany

Pierre Loidreau
pierre.loidreau@inria.fr
INRIA-Rocquencourt , France
On factorization of trinomials over GF(3)

Heinz Lüneburg
luene@mathematik.uni-kl.de
Universität Kaiserslautern , Germany
On the early history of Galois fields

Guglielmo Lunardon
lunardon@matna2.dma.unina.it
Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II , Italy
Linear blocking sets: a survey


M


Veronique Mauduit
veronique.mauduit@ucd.ie
University College Dublin , Ireland
Strong pseudoprime polynomials and Berlekamp's algorithm

Donald Mills
ddmills@math.clemson.edu
Clemson University , USA
Associative rational functions in two variables

Lothrop Mittenthal
Teledyne Electronic Technology , USA
Constructions of orthomorphisms over $Z_2^n$ (with S.W. Golomb, G. Gong )

Marina Monsurro
monsurro@vega.univ-fcomte.fr
Universite de Franche Comte, Besancon , France
Trace forms of Galois algebras

Oscar Moreno
O_MORENO@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU
University of Puerto Rico , Puerto Rico
A tight bound on the divisibility of multi-variable exponential sum, and improved estimates on the Chevalley-Warning and the Ax-Katz Results (with K.W. Shum, F.N. Castro, P.V. Kumar )

Eva Nuria Müller
Eva.Mueller@mathematik.uni-magdeburg.de
Universität Magdeburg , Germany
Crosscorrelation of non-maximal sequences

Peter Müller
Peter.Mueller@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
Universität Heidelberg , Germany
The rational function analogue of a question of Schur

Siguna Müller
siguna.mueller@uni-klu.ac.at
Universität Klagenfurt , Austria
On the number of zeros of the Dickson polynomials

Gary L. Mullen
mullen@math.psu.edu
Pennsylvania State University , USA

Sylvia Musumeci
musumeci@dipmat.math.unipa.it
University of Palermo , Italy
A class of imprimitive permutation groups


N


Gabor Nagy
nagyg@mi.uni-erlangen.de
Universität Erlangen , Germany

Jorge Nakahara
Jorge.Nakahara@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
ESAT, Leuven , Belgium

Kim Nguyen
nguyen@exp-math.uni-essen.de
Universität Essen , Germany

Harald Niederreiter
niederreiter@oeaw.ac.at
Austrian Academy of Sciences , Austria

Michael Nöcker
noecker@uni-paderborn.de
Universität Paderborn , Germany
Normal bases, Gauss periods, and fast arithmetic (with J. v.z. Gathen )

Graham Norton
graham.norton@bristol.ac.uk
University of Bristol , United Kingdom

Boris Novikov
boris.v.novikov@univer.kharkov.ua
Kharkov State University , Ukraine
On the Brauer monoid for finite fields (with V. Kirichenko )

Emir Nurbegovic
mat360@sp2.power.uni-essen.de
Universität Essen , Germany


O


Christine O'Keefe
cok@cage.rug.ac.be
University of Ghent, Belgium, and University of Adelaide , Australia


P


Il Hwan Park
ilhpark@etri.re.kr
Taejon, Korea

Kenneth G. Paterson
kp@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol , United Kingdom
A new application of exponential sums in coding theory

Lancelot Pecquet
Lancelot.Pecquet@inria.fr
INRIA-Roquencourt , France
An algorithm to get some factors of bivariate polynomials without factoring

Marc Perret
perret@umpa.ens-lyon.fr
Ecole Normale Superior de Lyon , France
A birational invariant of projective smooth 3-dimensional varieties over finite fields (with G. Lachaud )

Werner Poguntke
poguntke@mfh-iserlohn.de
Märkische Fachhochschule Hagen , Germany
A fast primitivity test for polynomials (with A. Rieke, A.R. Sadeghi )

Alexander Pott
alexander.pott@mathematik.uni-magdeburg.de
Universität Magdeburg , Germany

Alan R. Prince
a.r.prince@ma.hw.ac.uk
Heriott-Watt University, Edinburgh , United Kingdom
A permutation problem for finite fields


Q


Bob Quackenbush
qbush@cc.umanitoba.ca
University of Manitoba , Canada


R


Sandro Rajola
Universita La Sapienza, Roma , Italy
Triangular projective planes of order q and q+1-arcs

Francios Recher
recher@univ-lille1.fr
Universite de Lille , France

Astrid Reifegerste
astrid.reifegerste@mathematik.uni-magdeburg.de
Universität Magdeburg , Germany

Marialuisa J. de Resmini
resmini@mat.uniroma1.it
Universita La Sapienza, Roma , Italy

Jürgen Ritter
ritter@math.uni-augsburg.de
Universität Augsburg , Germany

Francois Rodier
rodier@iml.univ-mrs.fr
CNRS, Marseille , France
Codes from flag varieties over a finite field

Peter Roelse
p.roelse@crypto.philips.com
Philips Crypto B.V., Eindhoven , The Netherlands
Cryptanalysis of the Wu-Dawson public-key system


S


Shojiro Sakata
sakata@cs.uec.ac.jp
University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo , Japan
A fast algorithm for constructing multivariate polynomials with preassigned zeros

Parham Salehyan
parham@impa.br
Instituto de Matematica Pura e Alpicada, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil

Gerhard Schiffels
schiffel@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de
Universität Bielefeld , Germany

Bernhard Schmidt
schmidt@math.uni-augsburg.de
University of Augsburg , Germany

Ralph-Hardo Schulz
schulz@math.fu-berlin.de
Freie Universität Berlin , Germany
Divisible designs formed by planes of projective spaces (with C. Cerroni )

Stephan Semirat
semirat@math.jussieu.fr
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris , France
Cyclotomic function fields with ideal class number one

Jean-Pierre Serre
jean-pierre.serre@ens.fr
College de France , France
$F_q$-Curves with many rational points

Satoshi Shinohara
sshinoha@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
University of Tsukuba , Japan
Algebraic curves and balanced n-ary designs (with R. Fuji-Hara )

Kenneth Shum
kshum@scf-fs.usc.edu
University of Southern California, Los Angeles , USA
Zeta function of golden exponential sum (with P.V. Kumar, T. Helleseth )

Helmut Siemon
Fax: ++49 931 68288
Reichenberg , Germany

Wenke Sietas
sietas@darmstadt.gmd.de
GMD Darmstadt , Germany

Alice Silverberg
silver@math.ohio-state.edu , silver@mi.uni-erlangen.de
Ohio State University , USA

Man-Keung Siu
mathsiu@hkucc.hku.hk
University of Hongkong , China
Two-level-autocorrelation and character sequence (with K.K. Choi )

R. Georg Snatzke
University of Augsburg , Germany

Lawrence Somer
somer@cua.edu
Catholic University of America , USA

Antonio Giorgio Spera
spera@dipmat.math.unipa.it
University of Palermo , Italy

Andreas Stein
astein@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
University of Waterloo , Canada

Greg Stein
gregstein@member.ams.org
City University of New York , USA
Gauss sums and factoring cyclotomic polynomials over finite fields

Ralf Stein
ralle@informatik.uni-bremen.de
Universität Bremen , Germany

Henning Stichtenoth
stichtenoth@uni-essen.de
Universität Essen , Germany

Indulis Strazdins
jc@lanet.lv
Riga Technical University , Latvia
Universal linear classification of boolean functions


T


Horacio Tapia-Recillas
htr@xanum.uam.mx
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Izta Palapa, Mexico D.F. , Mexico
Reed-Muller codes on complete intersections (with I.M. Duursma, C. Renteria )

Edlyn Teske
eteske@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
University of Waterloo , Canada
Optimized algorithms for hyperelliptic function fields (with A. Stein )

Charles Toll
ctoll@afterlife.ncsc.mil
Department of Defense , USA

Alev Topuzoglu
alev@sabanciuniv.edu.tr
Sabanci University, Istanbul , Turkey

Artur Travesa
travesa@cerber.mat.ub.es
Universitat de Barcelona , Spain


V


Alessandra Vaccaro
vaccaro@dipmat.math.unipa.it
University of Palermo , Italy

Javid Validashti
validash@math.sharif.ac.ir
Sharif University of Technology , Iran

Scott A. Vanstone
jlombardi@certicom.com
University of Waterloo , Canada
The elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem and its cryptographic significance

Rita Vincenti
alice@unipg.it
Universita degli Studi Perugia , Italy
On permutation polynomials and derivable translation planes


W


Daqing Wan
dwan@math.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine , USA
Introduction to Dwork's conjecture

Gregory P. Wene
wene@sphere.math.utsa.edu
University of Texas, San Antonio , USA
Factoring in twisted polynomial rings over finite fields

Andreas Wiemers
wiemers@bsi.de
German Information Security Agency , Germany

Wolfgang Willems
willems@mathematik.uni-magdeburg.de
Universität Magdeburg , Germany

Arne Winterhof
a.winterhof@tu-bs.de
Technische Universität Braunschweig , Germany
Incomplete additive character sums and applications

Pawel Wocjan
wocjan@ira.uka.de
Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

Jacques Wolfmann
wolfmann@univ-tln.fr
Universite de Toulon et du Var , France
Cyclic codes over $Z_4$ whose Gray images are equivalent to binary linear cyclic codes


X


Qing Xiang
xiang@math.udel.edu
University of Delaware, Newark , USA
Projective planes and Hadamard designs

Chaoping Xing
xingcp@math.nus.edu.sg
National University of Singapore , Singapore
Applications of curves over finite fields to constructions of sequences and codes


Y


Roger Yang
ryang@math.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine , USA
Newton polygons of L-functions of certain polynomials

Oyvind Ytrehus
oyvind@ii.uib.no
University of Bergen , Norway
(d,k) constrained codes with bit-oriented and destined trellises (with A. Barbero )


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