The works of the conference concern, on one hand, classical aspects of ring and module theory and, on the other, some applications of this theory, focusing on coding theory and cryptography in which rings and modules play a substantial role.
Topics: Keynote speakers: M. Amini (Iran), P. Ara (Spain), A. Badawi (UAE), A. Facchini (Italy), D. Herbera (Spain), A. Leroy (France), R. Mazurek (Poland), C. Roman (USA), D. Smerting (Austria), A. Srivastava (USA), J. Wood (USA), M. Yousif (USA)