Preliminary program

Under construction.

We plan to have plenary lectures of 50 minutes and short presentations of 20 minutes.


Thursday, October 23, 2025

14:00 – 15:50Registration
15:50 – 16:00Opening
16:00 – 17:00 Claude Carlet (University of Paris 8 & University of Bergen)
A notion on S-boxes for a partial resistance to some integral attacks (abs)
17:00 – 17:30Coffee break
17:30 – 17:55 Francesco Ghiandoni (University of Perugia)
Hermitian codes for Secure and Private Information Retrieval (abs)
17:55 – 18:20 Gioia Schulte (University of Salento & University of Basilicata)
Evaluation codes from linear systems of conics (abs)
18:45 – 20:45Wine&Cheese reception

Friday, October 24, 2025

08:30 – 09:00Registration
09:00 – 10:00 Vedran Krčadinac (University of Zagreb)
On three-dimensional combinatorial designs (abs)
10:00 – 10:25 Lucija Relić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science)
Difference sets for higher-dimensional symmetric designs (abs)
10:25 – 10:55
10:55 – 11:20 Gábor Gévay (University of Szeged)
The many faces of the Möbius–Kantor configuration (abs)
11:20 – 11:45 Tomaž Pisanski (University of Primorska)
Polycirculant LCF codes for cubic graphs (abs)
11:45 – 12:10 György Kiss (ELTE Budapest & University of Primorska Koper)
TBA (abs)
12:10 – 14:00Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 Stefko Miklavic (University of Primorska)
Terwilliger algebra of a graph (abs)
15:00 – 15:25 Nino Bašić (University of Primorska & IMFM)
Nut graphs with a prescribed automorphism group (abs)
15:25 – 15:50 Giusy Monzillo (University of Primorska)
On the (weakly) uniform structure of bipartite graphs which admit a dual adjacency matrix (candidate) (abs)
15:50 – 16:20Coffee break
16:20 – 16:45 Safet Penjić (University of Primorska)
On combinatorial structure of imprimitive graphs, part I (abs)
16:45 – 17:10 Luka Šinkovec (University of Primorska)
On edge-transitive dihedrants (abs)
17:10 – 17:35 Ágnes Szalai (University of Primorska)
Classifying vertex-transitive graphs of order a product of two distinct primes (abs)
17:35 – 18:00 Sanja Rukavina (University of Rijeka)
On the construction of extremal Type II codes over $\mathbb{Z}_{2^k}$ (abs)

Saturday, October 25, 2025

09:00 – 10:00 Michel Lavrauw (University of Primorska)
Nets, webs and squabs of conics over finite fields (abs)
10:00 – 10:25 Martin Macaj (Comenius University Bratislava)
How to decompose the affine plane into parabolas (abs)
10:25 – 10:55
10:55 – 11:20 Bence Csajbók (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
On the graph and the set of determined directions of functions over $\mathrm{GF}(q)$ (abs)
11:20 – 11:45 Dávid R Szabó (Rényi Institute)
Blocking $s$-spaces by $t$-spaces in $\mathbb{F}_q^n$ (abs)
11:45 – 12:10 Alessandro Giannoni (University Federico II of Naples)
Connection between $t$-packings and QMDS codes (abs)
12:10 – 14:00Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 Giuseppe Marino (University of Naples Federico II)
MRD codes, shortest minimal codes, and intersecting codes from scattered subspaces (abs)
15:00 – 15:25 Giovanni Giuseppe Grimaldi (University of Perugia)
Generalizing two families of scattered quadrinomials in $\mathbb{F}_{q^{2t}}[X]$ (abs)
15:25 – 15:55Coffee break
15:55 – 16:20 Giovanni Longobardi (University of Naples Federico II)
A lower bound on the minimum weight of some geometric codes (abs)
16:20 – 16:45 Arianna Dionigi (University of Florence)
Curves with a large automorphism group admitting a cyclic subgroup of index 2 (abs)
16:45 – 17:10 Marco Timpanella (University of Perugia)
On automorphism groups and $p$-rank of algebraic curves in positive characteristic (abs)
18:30 – 19:15Guitar concert
19:15 – 22:30Conference dinner

IMPORTANT: The daylight saving time ends on the night from Saturday to Sunday, and the clocks will have to be set back one hour.


Sunday, October 26, 2025

09:00 – 10:00 Irene Villa (University of Trento)
Construction and cryptanalysis of a multivariate CCZ scheme (abs)
10:00 – 10:25 Bojan Bašić (University of Novi Sad)
On finite florets in Hilbert's (geo-)garden (abs)
10:25 – 10:55Coffee break
10:55 – 11:20 Fariha Iftikhar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
The random generation of Latin rectangles based on the assignment problem (abs)
11:20 – 11:45 Valentino Smaldore (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Strongly regular graphs with 2-transitive two-graphs (abs)
11:45 – 12:10 Gábor Nagy (University of Szeged)
TBA (abs)
12:10 – 12:20Closing

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