Martin’s Blog

As usual, every class I have requires an end of semester project. I’m kind of obsessed with coding theory at the moment so I’m doing all my projects on topics related to that.

Algebraic Geometry – writing an expository paper on Algebraic Geometry codes (see this book for example).

Integral Lattices – giving a talk on a paper of Koch titled “On Self-Dual, Doubly Even Codes of Length 32″.

Channel Coding – Writing computer programs to simulate CRC burst error detection and Berlekamp-Massey decoding of a Reed-Solomon code.

A talk I gave today in the applied math graduate seminar. You might be sick of looking at my talks but this one has pictures and stuff – it’s meant for applied mathematicians.