Finite Fields and Applications

On the Autocorrelation of Cyclotomic Generators.- The Weierstrass Semigroup of an m-tuple of Collinear Points on a Hermitian Curve.- On Cyclic Top-Associative Generalized Galois Rings.- Linear Recurrences with Polynomial Coefficients and Computation of the Cartier-Manin Operator on Hyperelliptic Curves.- Mutual Irreducibility of Certain Polynomials.- Lattice Profile and Linear Complexity Profile of Pseudorandom Number Sequences.- Symplectic Spreads and Permutation Polynomials.- What Do Random Polynomials over Finite Fields Look Like?.- Combinatorics of the Two-Variable Zeta Function.- Constructions of Mutually Unbiased Bases.- A Construction of Matrices with No Singular Square Submatrices.- Everywhere Ramified Towers of Global Function Fields.- On the Construction of Some Towers over Finite Fields.- The Covering Radius of Some Primitive Ternary BCH Codes.- The Gray Map on GR(p 2, n) and Repeated-Root Cyclic Codes.- Primitive Polynomials over Small Fields.- Vectorial Functions and Covering Sequences.- u q -Sharp Subsets of a Finite Field.- Cyclic Decomposition of Permutations of Finite Fields Obtained Using Monomials.