Towers of Function Fields

Workshop "Towers of Function Fields", February 23-24 2012, Sabanci University,  Minerva Palace, Karaköy

09.30 - 10.30  Michael Tsfasman (Institute for Information Transmission Problems and Independent University of Moscow)

        Sphere packings in large dimensions

10.45 - 11.45  Henning Stichtenoth (Sabanci University, Istanbul)

        Explicit towers over non-prime finite fields I

14.00 - 15.00  Arnaldo Garcia (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro)

        Explicit towers over non-prime finite fields II

15.30 - 16.30  Stephane Ballet (Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy, Marseille)

        Class numbers in algebraic function fields defined over finite fields, and related problems

16.45 - 17.45  Ignacio Cascudo (CWI, Amsterdam)

        Arithmetic codices

19.00 Workshop dinner (details will be announced at the workshop)

 

09.30 - 10.30  Marc Perret (Institut de mathematique de Toulouse)

        Some remarks on the  loci of decomposed and of singular points in recursive towers

10.45 - 11.45  Kit-Ho Mak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

        On lower bounds for the Ihara constants A(2) and A(3)

14.00 - 15.00  Peter Beelen (DTU, Copenhagen)

        Explicit towers over non-prime finite fields III

15.30 - 16.30  Alp Bassa (Sabanci University, Istanbul) 

        Explicit towers over non-prime finite fields IV