FGAF — Finite Geometry & Friends

This summer school will be centered around lectures given by Anna-Lena Horlemann, Krystal Guo, Valentina Pepe, and John Sheekey. Each of them will deliver four hours of lectures on topics in their domain of expertise. Attending students and researchers will encounter a variety of topics, including substructures of finite geometries; geometric aspects of tensors, semifields, Segre and Veronese varieties, rank metric codes; code based cryptography; quantum walks, and state transfer; eigenvalues of graphs, linear algebra and graph theory, matrix algebras of graphs, cospectral vertices, distance regular graphs, generalized quadrangles. Complementary to the lectures, the schedule will include exercises on the lecture material, open problem sessions, and room for contributed talks (15-20 minutes).

Topics: combinatorics, geometry, algebraic graph theory, coding theory, cryptography