Applications of Curves to Coding Theory and Low Discrepancy Sequences

Speaker:          Prof. Chaoping Xing 
                  Department of Computer Science 
                             and 
                  Department of Mathematics   
                  National University of Singapore    

Title:            Applications of Curves to Coding Theory and 
                  Low Discrepancy Sequences


Date:             Monday, 10 November 2003 

Time:             4:00pm - 5:00pm 

Venure:           Lecture Theatre F (Leung Yat Seng Lecture Theatre) 
                  (near lift nos. 25/26)   


ABSTRACT: 

Finding curves over finite fields with many rational points is an 
interesting problem, which has important applications in coding 
theory. In this talk, we present an introduction of the applications 
of curves over finite fields to coding theory and low-discrepancy 
sequences.


BIOGRAPHY: 

Chaoping XING received his PhD degree in 1990 from the University of 
Science and Technology of China. He joined the University of Essen, 
Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow from 1993 to 1995. After 
this he spent most time in Institute of Information Processing, 
Austrian Academy of Sciences until 1998. From March of 1998 he has 
been working in the National University of Singapore. Dr. Xing has 
been working on the areas of number theory, algebraic curves, coding 
theory, cryptography and quasi-Monte Carlo methods, etc.