A volume of workshop proceedings which explores several aspects of coding theory, including exponential sums, codes constructed from special curves, the decoding of algebraic geometric codes, trace codes, the asymptotic number of points on algebraic curves and sphere packings.

Algebraic geometry and coding theory an introduction.- Reed-Muller codes associated to projective algebraic varieties.- Decoding Algebraic-Geometric Codes by solving a key equation.- On the different of abelian extensions of global fields.- Goppa codes and Weierstrass gaps.- On a characterization of some minihypers in PG(t,q) (q=3 or 4) and its applications to error-correcting codes.- Deligne-Lusztig varieties and group codes.- Spectra of linear codes and error probability of decoding.- On the true minimum distance of Hermitian codes.- Sphere packings centered at S-units of algebraic tori.- A function field related to the Ree group.- On the gonality of curves, abundant codes and decoding.- Curves with many points and multiplication in finite fileds.- The domain of covering codes.- Some remarks on the asymptotic number of points.- On the weights of trace codes.- Minoration de Certaines Sommes Exponentielles Binaires.- Linear codes, strata of Grassmannians, and the problems of segre.

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