ACCENT project

This is the webpage of the ACCENT project, funded by the European Commission via the Individual Marie Curie Grants Scheme, grant n. 740880 (Horizon 2020). This award financed my position as Research Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland, from May 2018 until December 2019.

Start date: May 1, 2018

Call: H2020-MSCA-IF-2016

Principal Investigator: Alberto Ravagnani

Academic Mentor: Eimear Byrne

Host Institution: University College Dublin, Ireland

Budget: 176'000 EUR

End date: December 31, 2019 (grant agreement terminated in order to join TU/e)

Research Outputs:


  • E. Byrne, A. Ravagnani, Partition-Balanced Families of Codes and Asymptotic Enumeration in Coding Theory, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A (to appear).
  • E. Byrne, A. Ravagnani, Matrix Codes with the Rank Metric and Their Covering Radii, Proceedings of MTNS 2018, Hong Kong, China.
  • E. Byrne, A. Ravagnani, An Assmus-Mattson Theorem for Rank-Metric Codes, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (to appear).
  • E. Byrne, A. Ravagnani, On the Sparsity of MRD Codes, Proceedings of WCC 2019, Saint-Malo, France.
  • E. Gorla, R. Jurrius, H. López, A. Ravagnani, Rank-Metric Codes and q-Polymatroids, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (to appear).
  • H. Gluesing-Luerssen, A. Ravagnani, Partitions of Matrix Spaces with an Application to q-Rook Polynomials, preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01282.
  • E. Byrne, A. Neri, A. Ravagnani, J. Sheekey, Tensor Representation of Rank-Metric Codes, SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry (to appear).
  • A. Ravagnani, Matrix Codes and Rook Theory, in the Oberwolfach Report of the conference Contemporary Coding Theory, 2019.
  • A. Ravagnani, Whitney Numbers of Combinatorial Geometries and Higher-Weight Dowling Lattices, preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10249.
  • E. Byrne, G. Cotardo, A. Ravagnani, Rank-Metric Codes, Generalized Binomial Moments and Their Zeta Functions, preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01928.