Introduction to Coding Theory and Applications F19

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  • • General Information of the Course SC 461: Coding Theory and Applications

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  29 July - 4 August

  • Monday  8:00 am to 9:00 am, Room CEP 104

    Tuesday 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm, Room CEP 104

    Thursday 11:00 am to 12:00 noon, Room CEP 104

  • Tentative Course Content 

    Historical Introduction and Motivation of Coding and Information Theory, Basic Review of Finite Fields and Finite Rings, Introduction to Algebraic Coding Theory, Codes over finite fields and finite rings, Linear and Non-linear Codes, Hamming Codes, Golay Codes, Cyclic, Quasi-cyclic and Quasi Twisted Codes, Quadratic Residue Codes, Reed Muller, Reed Solomon Codes and BCH Codes, Art of Decoding, Convolutional Codes, Turbo Codes and Low density parity check (LDPC) codes, Algebraic Geometry codes - Goppa codes, Applications of Coding Theory to Networks (Cloud Computing: Cloud Data Storage and Cloud Security), Cryptography, Wireless Communications, Quantum Computing, and DNA computing. 

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  5 August - 11 August

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  12 August - 18 August

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  19 August - 25 August

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  26 August - 1 September

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  • Upload Projects (November 21, 2019) Assignment (2.2)
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  2 September - 8 September

  • Sep 4 Sep 7 Test 1

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  9 September - 15 September

  • Homework 4 (Due on Sep 15, 2019) File 29.7KB PDF document
  • Homework 4 (Due Date: Sep 15, 2019) Assignment (2.2)
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  16 September - 22 September

  • Homework 5 (Sep 25, 2019) File 42.5KB PDF document
  • Homework 5 (Sep 25, 2019) Assignment (2.2)
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  23 September - 29 September
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  30 September - 6 October

  • Homework 6 (October 6, 2019) File 37.7KB PDF document
  • Homework 6 (October 6, 2019) Assignment (2.2)
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  7 October - 13 October
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  14 October - 20 October
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  21 October - 27 October

  • Test 2 (Oct 22 - Oct 25)

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  • Sample Test 2 2013 File 40.5KB PDF document
  • Sample Test 2 2014 File 56.1KB PDF document
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  28 October - 3 November

  • Semester Break

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  4 November - 10 November
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  11 November - 17 November

  • Course Evaluation (13 Nov - 15 Nov)

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  18 November - 24 November

  • project upload Assignment (2.2)
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  25 November - 1 December

  • Test 3 (25 November - 3 December)

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  • Sample Test 3 2019 File 54.5KB PDF document
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  2 December - 8 December

  • Test 3 (25 November - 3 December)