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Monday, February 4, 2008 - 4:15pm

John Flynn

Haverford College

Location

Bryn Mawr College

Park Science Bldg - Room 328

Tea will be served at 3:45 pm in Park 355

Every function from a finite field to itself is a polynomial. What image size do we expect for these functions? How does the degree determine the image size? How might we construct polynomials with a particular image size?