BFA 2024 Program

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MONDAY
09.25 – 09.30 Stjepan Picek

Welcoming to BFA 2024

09.30 – 10.20 Tor Helleseth

My favorite proof on Boolean functions: The proof by Mykkeltveit of Golomb’s conjecture for the deBruijn graph

slides video

10.20 – 10.45 Enes Pasalic, Samir Hodžic, Sadmir Kudin, Dilawar Abbas Khan

Secondary plateaued Boolean functions through addition of indicators

slides video

10.45 – 11.05 Break
11.05 – 11.30 Nurdagül Anbar, Tekgül Kalaycı, Wilfried Meidl, Ferruh Özbudak

Bent partitions and Maiorana-McFarland association schemes

slides video

11.30 – 11.55 Philippe Langevin, Alexandr Polujan

Some classification results on Maiorana-McFarland bent functions

slides video

11.55 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.50 Gábor Péter Nagy

Sidon sets in $\mathbb{F}_2^n$ and the vectorial nonlinearity

slides video

14.50 – 15.15 Daniele Bartoli, Mohit Pal, Pantelimon Stanica

A Conjecture on Permutation Trinomials

slides video

15.15 – 15.35 Break
15.35 – 16.00 Sartaj Ul Hasan, Ramandeep Kaur

Four new classes of permutation polynomials over Fq3

video

16.00 – 16.25 Lukas Koelsch

A new invariant for quadratic vectorial Boolean functions

video

   
18.30 Welcoming reception (at the workshop venue, Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik)
TUESDAY
09.30 – 10.20 Gregor Leander

Low Latency Primitives and Beyond

slides video

10.20 – 10.45 Jan Kristian Haugland, Tron Omland

Shift-invariant functions and almost liftings

slides video

10.45 – 11.05 Break
11.05 – 11.30 Deepak Kumar Dalai, Krishna Mallick, Pierrick Méaux

Weightwise Almost Perfectly Balanced Functions, Construction From A Permutation Group Action View

slides video

11.30 – 11.55 Deepak Kumar Dalai, Krishna Mallick

On the Direct Sum of Weightwise Almost Perfectly Balanced Boolean Functions

video

11.55 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.15 Claude Carlet

Awarding of the George Boole prize

video

14.15 – 15.05 Claude Carlet

A few interesting problems on Boolean and vectorial functions

15.05 – 15.30 Marco Calderini, Alessio Caminata, Irene Villa

Using a CCZ-transformation in a multivariate scheme

slides video

15.30 – 15.50 Break
15.50 – 16.15 Claude Carlet, Xiang-Dong Hou

On Sum-Free Functions

video

16.15 – 16.40 Joan Daemen, Shahram Rasoolzadeh

Markov Eigenvalues

slides video

WEDNESDAY
Full day excursion (click here for program)
THURSDAY
09.30 – 10.20 Markus Grassl

Quantum Codes from Classical Codes

slides video

10.20 – 10.45 Samuele Andreoli, George Petrides

Further Existence Results of Decompositions of Permutation Polynomials

slides video

10.45 – 11.05 Break
11.05 – 11.30 Philippe Langevin, Valérie Gillot, Alexandr Polujan

On the normality of Boolean quartics

slides video

11.30 – 11.55 Ana Salagean, Nikolay Stoyanov Kaleyski, Ferruh Ozbudak

Testing generalized affine equivalence and applications to the classification of GAPN functions

slides video

11.55 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.25 Chunlei Li, Constanza Riera, Pantelimon Stanica, Palash Sarkar

On the codebook design for NOMA schemes from bent functions

slides video

14.25 – 14.50 René Rodríguez-Aldama, Enes Pasalic, Fengrong Zhang, Yongzhuang Wei

Self-Orthogonal Minimal Codes From (Vectorial) p-ary Plateaued Functions

slides video

14.50 – 15.15 Ayca Cesmelioglu, Wilfried Meidl

Construction and equivalence for generalized boolean functions

slides video

15.15 – 15.35 Break
15.35 – 16.00 Maximilien Gadouleau, Luca Mariot, Federico Mazzone

On Maximal Families of Binary Polynomials with Pairwise Linear Common Factors

slides video

16.00 – 16.25 Vladimir Potapov

On the number of relevant variables for discrete functions

slides video

   
17.30 – 19.00 Guided walk tour
19.30 Banquet (at the restaurant Posat, Ul. uz Posat 1, 20000, Dubrovnik, Croatia)
FRIDAY
09.30 – 10.20 Sylvain Guilley

The long story of substitution boxes in embedded cyber-security

slides video

10.20 – 10.45 Nadiia Ichanska, Nikolay Kaleyski

Further Investigations on the QAM Method for Finding APN Functions

slides video

10.45 – 11.05 Break
11.05 – 11.30 Lyubomir Borissov, Yuri Borissov

Distinctness of the Lifted Kloosterman Sums on the Prime Field Fp, p > 3

slides video

11.30 – 11.55 Augustine Musukwa, Massimiliano Sala

A Note on Vectorial Boolean Functions as Embeddings

slides video

11.55 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.05 Stjepan Picek

Tutorial on Boolean functions and Artificial Intelligence – Part 1

slides video (Part 1+2)

15.05 – 15.25 Break
15.25 – 16.15 Stjepan Picek

Tutorial on Boolean functions and Artificial Intelligence – Part 2

16.15 – 16.20 Sihem Mesnager

Closing remarks