For two decades, the conference has brought together researchers working on various topics in finite fields to present their results and discuss problems on finite fields. Three invited and 14 contributed papers discuss such topics as Davenport's constant for groups with large exponents, the exact divisibility of exponential sums and some consequences, sequences of Dedekind sums in function fields, a bound on the number of points of a curve in a projective space over a finite field, small-bias sets from extended norm-trace codes, and additive decompositions induced by multiplicative characters over finite fields. The proceedings are not indexed. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
