AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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1998 Fall Central Section Meeting
Chicago, IL, September 12-13, 1998
Meeting #935

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Special Session on Algebraic Coding

• Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding, I
  Room 8014, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  William C. Huffman, Loyola University of Chicago wch@math.luc.edu
  Vera S. Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago pless@math.uic.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lower bounds on code invaritants.
    A. Ashikhmin, Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
    A. Barg*, Bell Labs
    (935-94-210)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An improved upper bound on the minimum distance of doubly-even self-dual codes.
    Simon Litsyn*, Tel Aviv University
    (935-94-84)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Mysterious Turbo Codes.
    Robert J. McEliece*, California Institute of Technology
    (935-94-237)
• Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding, II
  Room 8014, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  William C. Huffman, Loyola University of Chicago wch@math.luc.edu
  Vera S. Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago pless@math.uic.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some properties of geometric codes.
    Jennifer D. Key*, Clemson University, SC
    (935-05-127)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    New Nonlinear Codes Constructed from Reed-Muller Codes.
    Xiang-dong Hou*, Wright State University
    (935-94-207)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The presence of the all-1 vector.
    Harold N. Ward*, University of Virginia
    (935-94-112)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Memorial for Ed Assmus
• Sunday September 13, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding, III
  Room 8014, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  William C. Huffman, Loyola University of Chicago wch@math.luc.edu
  Vera S. Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago pless@math.uic.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An application of semigroup rings to coding theory.
    Jay A. Wood*, Purdue University Calumet
    (935-94-110)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Type II codes over finite rings and finite abelian groups, and an application to hermitian modular forms.
    Eiichi Bannai*, Kyushu University
    (935-05-154)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Codes over F2+uF2: a survey.
    Patrick Solé*, CNRS, I3S
    (935-05-81)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The weight distribution of the quaternary Kasami code.
    Tor Helleseth*, University of Bergen, Norway
    P Vijay Kumar, University of Southern California
    Halvard Martinsen, University of Bergen, Norway
    Odd Narve Vassbakk, University of Bergen, Norway
    (935-94-182)
• Sunday September 13, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding, IV
  Room 8014, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  William C. Huffman, Loyola University of Chicago wch@math.luc.edu
  Vera S. Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago pless@math.uic.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Recent progress in the algebraic-geometric approach to codes over rings.
    Judy L Walker*, University of Nebraska
    (935-94-219)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Optimal binary linear codes obtained from regular partitions of vector spaces.
    David B Jaffe*, Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (935-94-206)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the classification of even extremal formally self-dual codes .
    Joe E. Fields, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Philippe Gaborit*, INRIA - University of Illinois at Chicago
    William C. Huffman, Loyola University
    Vera Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (935-05-130)

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