Title: An Introduction to Tamo-Barg Codes
Speakers: Clifton Garrison, Logan Nott, and Phillip Waitkevich
Date/Time/Location: Friday, January 20th at 1:00pm, CMC 109
Abstract: Prior to the discovery of Tamo-Barg codes, it was common for codes to recover a single erased coordinate by using all the other coordinates. In 2013, Itzhak Tamo and Alexander Barg created an optimal locally recoverable code, which is a code that can recover a single erasure using at most r other coordinates instead of all the other coordinates. This talk will introduce coding theory and the construction of Tamo-Barg Codes.