This book contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Noncommutative Rings and their Applications, held from June 12–15, 2017, at the University of Artois, Lens, France. The papers are related to noncommutative rings, covering topics such as: ring theory, with both the elementwise and more structural approaches developed; module theory with popular topics such as automorphism invariance, almost injectivity, ADS, and extending modules; and coding theory, both the theoretical aspects such as the extension theorem and the more applied ones such as Construction A or Reed–Muller codes. Classical topics like enveloping skewfields, weak Hopf algebras, and tropical algebras are also presented.

This book contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Noncommutative Rings and their Applications, held from June 12-15, 2017, at the University of Artois, Lens, France. The papers are related to noncommutative rings, covering topics such as: ring theory, with both the elementwise and more structural approaches developed; module theory with popular topics such as automorphism invariance, almost injectivity, ADS, and extending modules; and coding theory, both the theoretical aspects such as the extension theorem and the more applied ones such as Construction A or Reed-Mull.

The12thintheseriesofIMAConferencesonCryptographyandCodingwasheld at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, December 15–17, 2009. The p- gram comprised 3 invited talks and 26 contributed talks. The contributed talks werechosenbyathoroughreviewingprocessfrom53submissions.Oftheinvited and contributed talks,28 arerepresentedaspapersin this volume. These papers are grouped loosely under the headings: Coding Theory, Symmetric Crypt- raphy, Security Protocols, Asymmetric Cryptography, Boolean Functions, and Side Channels and Implementations. Numerous people helped to make this conference a success. To begin with I would like to thank all members of the Technical Program Committee who put a great deal of e?ort into the reviewing process so as to ensure a hi- quality program. Moreover, I wish to thank a number of people, external to the committee, who also contributed reviews on the submitted papers. Thanks, of course,mustalso goto allauthorswho submitted papers to the conference,both those rejected and accepted. The review process was also greatly facilitated by the use of the Web-submission-and-review software, written by Shai Halevi of IBM Research, and I would like to thank him for making this package available to the community. The invited talks were given by Frank Kschischang, Ronald Cramer, and Alexander Pott, and two of these invitedtalksappearaspapersinthisvolume. A particular thanks goes to these invited speakers, each of whom is well-known, notonlyforbeingaworld-leaderintheir?eld,butalsofortheirparticularability to communicate their expertise in an enjoyable and stimulating manner.

The papers in this volume contain results in active research areas in the theory of rings and modules, including non commutative and commutative ring theory, module theory, representation theory, and coding theory.

This book is intended to provide a reasonably self-contained account of a major portion of the general theory of rings and modules suitable as a text for introductory and more advanced graduate courses. We assume the famil iarity with rings usually acquired in standard undergraduate algebra courses. Our general approach is categorical rather than arithmetical. The continuing theme of the text is the study of the relationship between the one-sided ideal structure that a ring may possess and the behavior of its categories of modules. Following a brief outline of set-theoretic and categorical foundations, the text begins with the basic definitions and properties of rings, modules and homomorphisms and ranges through comprehensive treatments of direct sums, finiteness conditions, the Wedderburn-Artin Theorem, the Jacobson radical, the hom and tensor functions, Morita equivalence and duality, de composition theory of injective and projective modules, and semi perfect and perfect rings. In this second edition we have included a chapter containing many of the classical results on artinian rings that have hdped to form the foundation for much of the contemporary research on the representation theory of artinian rings and finite dimensional algebras. Both to illustrate the text and to extend it we have included a substantial number of exercises covering a wide spectrum of difficulty. There are, of course" many important areas of ring and module theory that the text does not touch upon.

This volume offers a compendium of exercises of varying degree of difficulty in the theory of modules and rings. It is the companion volume to GTM 189. All exercises are solved in full detail. Each section begins with an introduction giving the general background and the theoretical basis for the problems that follow.

Codes and Rings: Theory and Practice is a systematic review of literature that focuses on codes over rings and rings acting on codes. Since the breakthrough works on quaternary codes in the 1990s, two decades of research have moved the field far beyond its original periphery. This book fills this gap by consolidating results scattered in the literature, addressing classical as well as applied aspects of rings and coding theory. New research covered by the book encompasses skew cyclic codes, decomposition theory of quasi-cyclic codes and related codes and duality over Frobenius rings. Primarily suitable for ring theorists at PhD level engaged in application research and coding theorists interested in algebraic foundations, the work is also valuable to computational scientists and working cryptologists in the area. Consolidates 20+ years of research in one volume, helping researchers save time in the evaluation of disparate literature Discusses duality formulas in the context of Frobenius rings Reviews decomposition of quasi-cyclic codes under ring action Evaluates the ideal and modular structure of skew-cyclic codes Supports applications in data compression, distributed storage, network coding, cryptography and across error-correction