AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:06

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Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday October 22, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, I
Room 701, Rudder Tower
- 8:30 a.m.
  Orthogonal arrays, covering designs and search designs.
  N. J. A. Sloane*, American Tel & Tel Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
  (886-05-122)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Orbital schemes of B_3 (q) acting on 2-dimensional totally isotropic subspaces.
  J. Hemmeter*, Northeast Missouri State University
  V. A. Ustimenko, Kiev State University, Ukraine
  A. J. Woldar, Villanova University
  (886-05-188)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rational functions and association scheme parameters.
  Douglas A. Leonard*, Auburn University, Auburn
  (886-05-97)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Extending Lander's table-- to nonabelian difference sets.
  Ken W. Smith*, Central Michigan University
  (886-05-94)
- 10:30 a.m.
  5-design with three intersection numbers.
  Y. J. Ionin, Central Michigan University
  M. S. Shrikhande*, Central Michigan University
  (886-05-96)

Friday October 22, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, II
Room 701, Rudder Tower
- 3:00 p.m.
  Graphs which are locally Grassmann.
  Richard M. Weiss*, Tufts University
  (886-20-220)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cycle ideals for distance-regular graphs.
  Aaron D. Meyerowitz*, Florida Atlantic University
  (886-05-221)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Strongly regular square-free graphs.
  Benjamin V.C. Collins*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (886-05-130)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Spherical designs: Balancing a set of points on the surface of the sphere.
  Bela Bajnok*, Getturysburg College
  (886-05-35)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Askey-Wilson polynomials, kernel polynomials and association schemes.
  Laura Chihara*, Saint Olaf College
  (886-05-219)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Antipodal distance-regular graphs of diameter four and five.
  Aleksandar Juri\v si\'c*, University of Waterloo,
  (886-05-223)

Saturday October 23, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, III
Room 701, Rudder Tower
- 8:00 a.m.
  The P- and Q-polynomial schemes of thin type.
  Paul Terwilliger*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (886-05-215)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On a Clebsch Gordon problem.
  Fan R.K. Chung*, Bellcore,445 South Street, Morristown, New Jersey
  Shlomo Sternberg, Harvard University
  (886-05-198)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Sharp characters of quasigroups and association schemes.
  Kenneth W. Johnson*, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz
  (886-05-144)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Kite-free P- and Q- polynomial association schemes.
  Chih-Wen Weng*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (886-05-192)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quotients of association schemes.
  Chris D. Godsil, University of Waterloo
  William J. Martin*, University of Winnipeg
  (886-05-77)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Association schemes, superschemes, and permutation actions.
  Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
  (886-05-142)

Saturday October 23, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, IV
Room 701, Rudder Tower
- 3:00 p.m.
  Antipodal distance transitive covers of complete bipartite graphs.
  A. A. Ivanov, Institute for System Studies, Russia
  Robert A. Liebler*, Colorado State University
  Tim Pentilla, University of Western Australia, Australia
  Cheryl E. Praeger, University of Western Australia, Australia
  (886-05-148)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Krein conditions for coherent configurations.
  Sylvia A. Hobart*, University of Wyoming
  (886-05-193)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quadratic forms in the construction of designs and near large sets of designs.
  Dwijendra Ray-Chaudhuri*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (886-05-199)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Twice Q-polynomial distance-regular graphs.
  Garth A. Dickie*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (886-05-222)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Symmetric pseudocyclic association schemes.
  Sung Yell Song*, Iowa State College, Ames
  (886-05-143)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On a generalization of the q-Johnson association scheme.
  Gregory Hill*, University of North Texas
  (886-05-218)

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