This report highlights significant developments in various fields, including quantum cryptography and coding theory, game theory and logical reasoning, description logics and modal reasoning, speech processing, human-computer interaction, and computer science. A common theme among these areas is the focus on enhancing security, efficiency, and expressivity of various protocols and systems.

In quantum cryptography and coding theory, researchers are exploring new approaches to quantum money, subspace codes, and sum-rank metric codes. Notable papers include investigations into the classical hardness of the semidirect discrete logarithm problem, cryptanalysis of isogeny-based quantum money, and the geometry of one-weight sum-rank metric codes.

Game theory and logical reasoning have seen significant advancements, with studies on the decidability of weighted timed games, epistemic logic in pursuit-evasion environments, and computable metrics for self-referential semantics. Noteworthy papers include the decidability of two-clock almost non-Zeno weighted timed games, a new formal framework for analyzing the game of Cops and Robbers, and the introduction of a novel metric for measuring self-reference in statements and protocols.

Description logics and modal reasoning have also witnessed significant developments, with a focus on integrating temporal and spatial reasoning, as well as standpoint reasoning, into description logics. Notable papers include the connection between temporal description logics and formal grammars, and the introduction of a complexity-neutral standpoint reasoning approach for ontology languages.

In speech processing, researchers are working towards more accurate and human-like speech quality assessment and generation. Noteworthy papers include the achievement of fine-grained speech emotion control, a scalable pipeline for recognizing and synthesizing paralinguistic vocalizations, and the introduction of a metric to directly measure the naturalness of machine-generated speech.

Human-computer interaction is moving towards a deeper understanding of the role of prosody and voice in communication. Researchers are exploring how prosodic features convey emotion, intent, and discourse structure, and how these cues can be replicated or replaced in text-based settings. Notable papers include the examination of how emojis influence prosodic realization in speech, the manipulative power of voice characteristics in synthetic speech, and the proposal of a new multi-stage training strategy for improved automatic speech recognition performance.

Finally, computer science is witnessing a shift towards deterministic reasoning and geometric understanding, with the development of new architectures and frameworks for systematic exploration of deductive neighborhoods, formal verification, and geometric reasoning. Noteworthy papers include the presentation of a deterministic architecture for reasoning and knowledge generation, a multimodal reasoning framework for formal geometric reasoning, and a novel framework for IC footprint geometry understanding.

Overall, these advancements have the potential to significantly improve the security, efficiency, and expressivity of various protocols and systems, and to enable more effective analysis and understanding of complex systems and interactions.