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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

4:00 pm in 245 Altgeld Hall,Wednesday, March 12, 2014

#### Applied Algebra

###### Iwan Duursma (Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Abstract: We discuss a number of applications in coding theory and cryptography where tools from algebra have been very useful, such as network coding, index coding, distributed storage, secret sharing and multiparty computation.