In the fall of 2017, Mehtaab Sawhney, then an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined a graduate reading group that set out to study a single paper over a semester. But by ...

Subspace codes are a class of error-correcting codes defined over the set of subspaces of a finite vector space. They have emerged as a powerful tool in network coding, where information is ...

In 50 years of searching, mathematicians found only one example of a “subspace design” that fit their criteria. A new proof reveals that there are infinitely more out there. In the fall of 2017, ...