BFA 2022 Program

Technical program

	Monday 12/9	Tuesday 13/9	Wednesday 14/9	Thursday 15/9	Friday 16/9
09.30 – 10.20	Welcome Invited talk Gregor Leander	Invited talk Claude Carlet	Full day excursion	Invited talk Joan Daemen	Invited talk Lejla Batina
10.20 – 10.45	Chunlei Li, Constanza Riera and Pantelimon Stanica. Dillon’s switching method generalized to c-differentials	Irene Villa, Marco Calderini and Kangquan Li. Two new families of quadratic APN functions over F_2^2m		Patrick Solé. A notion of bent sequences based on Hadamard matrices	René Rodríguez, Enes Pasalic, Fengrong Zhang and Yongzhuang Wei. Minimal p-ary linear codes and further results on non-covering permutations
10.45 – 11.05	Break	Break		Break	Break
11.05 – 11.30	Li-An Chen and Robert Coulter. On the differential uniformity of the Wan-Lidl permutation polynomials	Nikolay Kaleyski, Kjetil Nesheim and Pantelimon Stanica. A doubly-infinite family of 0-APN monomials		Nurdagül Anbar, Tekgül Kalaycı and Wilfried Meidl. Bent partitions, semifields, and association schemes	Robert Christian Subroto. An Algebraic Approach to Symmetric Linear Layers in Cryptographic Primitives
11.30 – 11.55	Kirpa Garg, Sartaj Ul Hasan and Pantelimon Stanica. Boomerang uniformity of some classes of functions	Ana Salagean and Ferruh Ozbudak. Further Constructions and Characterizations of Generalized Almost Perfect Nonlinear Functions		Alexandr Polujan and Alexander Pott. Towards the Classification of Quadratic Vectorial Bent Functions in 8 Variables	Jyotirmoy Basak, Subhamoy Maitra, Prabal Paul and Animesh Roy. Analysis of Boolean Functions Related to Binary Input Binary Output Two-party Nonlocal Games
11.55 – 14.00	Lunch	Lunch		Lunch	Lunch
14.00 – 14.50	Invited talk Sihem Mesnager	Invited talk Lukas Kölsch		Invited talk Patrick Felke	Invited talk Ondřej Čepek
14.50 – 15.15	Jaeseong Jeong, Namhun Koo and Soonhak Kwon. On cubic APcN permutations over finite fields of even characteristic	Alireza Mehrdad, Joan Daemen and Silvia Mella. Distribution of Linear Approximations over the Non-linear Mapping Chi		Abbas Alhakim and Janusz Szmidt. Euler Tour Graph and Multi de Bruijn Sequences	Xiang-Dong Hou. Some Algebraic Questions about the Reed-Muller Code
15.15 – 15.35	Break	Break		Break	Break
15.35 – 16.00	Marie Heggebakk and Nikolay Kaleyski. Testing linear and affine equivalence	Meltem Sonmez Turan. New Bounds on the Multiplicative Complexity of Boolean functions		Aleksandr Kutsenko. On subfunctions of self-dual bent functions and the existence of self-dual generalized bent functions	Ferruh Özbudak and Kübra Kaytancı. The c-Differential Uniformity of the Perturbed Inverse Function via a Trace Function Tr( x² ⁄ x+1 )
16.00 – 16.25	*Ana Salagean and Percy Reyes-Paredes.* Probabilistic estimation of the degree of Boolean functions	Valérie Gillot and Philippe Langevin. Classification of Boolean functions		Alexander Shaporenko. New approaches to the study of the “bent sum decomposition problem”	Farewell

Excursion (Wednesday, September 14, 2022)

08.30 – 09.00	Excursion starts	Departure from the Kviknes hotel on foot.
09.00 – 11.30	Heritage walk and Cider tasting	Guided tour from the village centre to the Cider House.
11.30 – 12.00	Walk to the Ferry port
12.00 – 17.00	Glacier Tour and Lunch	A magical Fjord Cruise through a fantastic fjord landscape. We will experience the Bøya Glacier up close and visit the Norwegian Glacier Museum. Warm lunch on the Fjordcruise boat is included.
17.00	Excursion ends	Walk to the Kviknes hotel.
19.00	Banquet