SCHEDULE

MONDAY 8

8h30	Registration	Where: Conference Site [map]
9h30	Presentation
10h00	Invited Talk: Henning Stichtenoth Self-dual codes and algebraic functions	Chair: Tom Hoholdt
11h00	COFFEE BREAK
	Contributed Session	Chair: Henning Stichtenoth
11h15	M. Giorgetti	Interesting Examples on Maximal Irreducible Goppa Codes
11h40	P. Beelen and D. Ruano	The Order Bound for Toric Codes
12h05	I. Duursma and R. Kirov	An Extension of the Order Bound for AG Codes
12h30	M. Bras-Amorós, M. O'Sullivan	From the Euclidean Algorithm for Solving a Key Equation for Dual Reed–Solomon Codes to the Berlekamp-Massey Algorithm
12h55	Group Photograph
13h00	LUNCH
	Contributed Session	Chair: Peter Beelen
14h30	C. Munuera, F. Torres, J. Villanueva	Sparse Semigroups
14h55	S. R. López-Permouth, S. Szabo	Repeated Root Cyclic and Negacyclic Codes over Galois Rings
15h20	I. Landjev	Spreads in Projective Hjelmslev Geometries
15h45	COFFEE BREAK
	Contributed Session	Chair: Shojiro Sakata
16h00	J. Pernas, J. Pujol, M. Villanueva	Rank for some families of Quaternary Reed-Muller codes
16h25	J. Pujol, J. Rifà, L. Ronquillo	Construction of Additive Reed-Muller Codes
16h50	M. Borges-Quintana, M. A. Borges-Trenard, E. Martínez-Moro	Gröbner Representations of Binary Matroids
18h30	City tour: Medieval Tarragona	Meeting point: Portal del Roser [map]

9h30	Invited Talk: Iwan Duursma Codes on planes and curves	Chair: Michael E. O'Sullivan
10h30	COFFEE BREAK
	Contributed Session	Chair: Iwan Duursma
10h45	R. Alvarez, L. Tortosa, J. Vicent, A. Zamora	A non-Abelian Group based on Block Upper Triangular Matrices with Cryptographic Appli
11h10	G. Zeng, Y. Yang, W. Han, S. Fan	Word Oriented Cascade Jump σ-LFSR
11h35	L. Zhang, B. Qin, Q. Wu, F. Zhang	Novel Efficient Certificateless Aggregate Signatures
12h00	SMALL BREAK
	Contributed Session	Chair: Qianhong Wu
12h10	R. Basu, S. Maitra, G. Paul and T. Talukdar	On Some Sequences of the Secret Pseudo-random Index j in RC4 Key Scheduling
12h35	M. Hagiwara, T. Yoshida, H. Imai	Bounds on The Number of Users for Random 2-secure Codes
13h00	LUNCH
15h45	Tour: Reus	Meeting point: Portal del Roser [map]
20h00	Typical Catalan Dinner	Where: Reus

9h30	Invited Talk: Fernando Torres Plane maximal curves	Chair: Carlos Munuera
10h30	COFFEE BREAK
	Contributed Session	Chair: Fernando Torres
10h45	H. Janwa, T. Hoholdt	Optimal Bipartite Ramanujan Graphs from Balanced Incomplete Block Designs: Their Characterizations and Applications to Expander/ LDPC Codes
11h10	D. M. Monarres and M. O' Sullivan	A Generalization of the Zig-Zag Graph Product by means of the Sandwich Product
11h35	J. Brevik and M. O'Sullivan, A. Umlauf and R. Wolski	Simulation of the Sum-Product Algorithm Using Stratified Sampling
12h00	SMALL BREAK
	Contributed Session	Chair: Kathy Horadam
12h10	J.J. Climent, V. Herranz, C. Perea, V. Tomás	A Systems Theory Approach to Periodically Time-Varying Convolutional Codes by Means.
12h35	J. I. Iglesias Curto	On Elliptic Convolutional Goppa Codes
13h00	LUNCH
16h00	Tour: Roman Tarragona	Meeting point: Portal del Roser [map]
20h00	Conference Dinner	Restaurant les Voltes, c. Trinquet Vell 12 [map]

	Contributed Session	Chair: Ignacio Farrán
9h30	H. Ozadam and F. Ozbudak	The Minimum Hamming Distance of Cyclic Codes of Length 2p^s
9h55	J.J. Bernal, Á. del Río, J.J. Simón	There are not non-Obvious Cyclic Affine-Invariant Codes
10h20	K. Nagata, F. Nemenzo, and H. Wada	On Self-Dual Codes over Z₁₆
10h45	COFFEE BREAK
	Contributed Session	Chair: Maria Bras-Amorós
11h00	Á. Ibeas and A. Winterhof	Noisy Interpolation of Multivariate Sparse Polynomials in Finite Fields
11h25	J. Bierbrauer	New Commutative Semifields and their Nuclei
11h50	SMALL BREAK
	Contributed Session	Chair: Juergen Bierbrauer
12h05	V. Alvarez, J. Andres Armario, M. Dolores Frau, F. Gudiel, A. Osuna	Rooted Trees Searching for Cocyclic Hadamard Matrices over D_4t
12h30	E. D. El-Mahassni and D. Gomez	On the Distribution of Nonlinear Congruential Pseudorandom Numbers of Higher Orders
13h00	LUNCH
	Contributed Session	Chair: Josep Domingo-Ferrer
15h00	S. Shin, K. Kobara, and H. Imai	Very-Efficient Anonymous Password-Authenticated Key Exchange and Its Extensions
15h25	Y. Cui, K. Morozov, K. Kobara, H. Imai	Efficient Constructions of Deterministic Encryption from Hybrid Encryption and Code-B
15h50	CLOSURE COFFEE BREAK

Online proceedings (Springer LNCS 5527) available

Selection of received photos available!

Deadline for paper submission:
January 8, 2009

Extended deadline
January 18, 2009

Acceptance notifications:
February 20, 2009

Camera-ready paper submission:
March 9, 2009

Reduced registration fee until
March 18, 2009

AAECC-18 Symposium:
June 8, 2009