Preliminary schedule

• Day 1
  1. Error detection, correction and decoding: General principles, Hamming distance, distance of a code. (C.Gherghe)
  2. Linear codes: Hamming weight, Generator matrix and parity-check matrix, encoding and decoding with linear codes, Syndrome decoding. (I.Anghel)

• Day 2
  1. Bound in coding theory : The main coding theory problem, Lower bounds, Gilbert-Varhamov bound, Hamming bound and perfect codes, Singleton bound, Plotkin bound. (I.Moldovan)

  2. Hamming codes : Encoding and Decoding (C.Gherghe)

• Day 3
  1. New codes from old codes: Reed-Muller codes, Encoding and Decoding (A.Dragulin, M.Barascu)

  2. Cyclic codes Examples,Encoding and Decoding. (G.Popescu)

• Day 4
  1. Reed-Solomon codes (V.Silviu)

  2. BCH codes (V.Silviu)

• Day 5
  1. Interferente Teoria Codurilor - Criptografie. Aplicatii (N.Constantinescu)

  2. Combining cryptography with biometrics effectively (B.Banu)