Kathryn Haymaker,
Christine Kelley,
and Tefjol Pllaha
Original Announcement
This workshop will be devoted to combinatorial coding theory, a field of mathematics that applies discrete structures and algorithms to solve problems in communications. Examples of seminal results in this field include Shannon's noisy channel coding theorem, asymptotically good codes from expander graphs, and capacity achieving spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and iterative decoding algorithms. This workshop will aim to build new collaborations in combinatorial coding theory, provide a welcoming environment for new researchers to join the community, develop and strengthen the community of researchers in coding theory, provide mentoring experience to junior faculty, and ignite new lines of research for researchers at all stages.
The main topics for the workshop are
Graph-based codes
Quantum error-correction
Coding for storage, such as storage in DNA, private information retrieval (PIR), convertible codes, and codes with locality
