AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:49

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

Saturday September 12, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes and Related Topics, I
Room 8005, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Sung Yell Song, Iowa State University sung@math.iastate.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Coherent configurations and $2$-distance sets in real Euclidean spaces.
  Eiichi Bannai*, Kyushu University
  Etsuko Bannai, Kyushu University
  (935-05-125)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quotients of coherent configurations.
  Alyssa D Sankey*, Slippery Rock University
  (935-05-149)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Completely regular codes in Hamming graphs.
  William J. Martin*, University of Winnipeg
  Tara D. Taylor, University of Winnipeg
  (935-05-236)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tight 2-designs and perfect 1-codes in Doob graphs.
  Akihiro Munemasa*, Kyushu University
  Jacobus Hendricus Koolen, Kyushu University
  (935-05-155)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Applying combinatorics of finite geometry to algebraic topology.
  Stephen D Smith*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (935-05-39)

Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes and Related Topics, II
Room 8005, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Sung Yell Song, Iowa State University sung@math.iastate.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Combinatorial Inequalities for Quasi-polynomial Semilattices.
  Dijen K Ray-Chaudhuri*, Department of Mathematics The Ohio State University
  Jin Qian, Department of Mathematics The Ohio State University
  (935-05-156)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On Cayley graphs of 3-transposition groups.
  Norio Yamazaki*, Inperial College, London
  (935-05-183)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Superschemes and $t$-vertex Condition Graphs.
  Jerzy Wojdylo*, Southeast Missouri State University
  (935-05-96)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Association schemes with a nonsymmetric relation of valency two.
  Mitsugu Hirasaka*, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
  Mikhail Muzychuk, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
  (935-05-205)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A new inequality for bipartite distance-regular graphs.
  Michael Lang*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (935-05-218)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Distribution invariants of association schemes.
  Nachimuthu Manickam*, DePauw University
  (935-05-234)

Sunday September 13, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes and Related Topics, III
Room 8005, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Sung Yell Song, Iowa State University sung@math.iastate.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Bose-Mesner automorphisms and sub-schemes.
  Chris D Godsil*, University of Waterloo
  (935-05-67)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Character Products and $Q$-Polynomial Group Association Schemes.
  Hiroshi Suzuki*, Department of Mathematics, International Christian University
  (935-05-85)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Integral table algebras and commutative association schemes with a nonsymmetric relation of valency 3.
  Harvey I. Blau*, Northern Illinois University
  (935-05-70)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some Remarks on a Regular Thin Near 7-Gon.
  Andrew J Woldar*, Villanova University
  (935-05-187)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Generalized classes in association schemes: arithmetic properties and a dual of a result of Burnside.
  Kenneth W Johnson*, Penn state University, Abington College
  Eirini Poimenidou, New College of the University of South Florida.
  (935-05-109)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Superscheme Classes, Burnside Algebras, and Speed's Orbit Problem.
  Jonathan D. H. Smith*, Iowa State University
  (935-05-108)

Sunday September 13, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes and Related Topics, IV
Room 8005, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Sung Yell Song, Iowa State University sung@math.iastate.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Leonard systems and the q-Racah polynomials.
  Paul M Terwilliger*, Math Dept. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  (935-05-225)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Tight distance-regular graphs.
  Aleksandar Juri\v{s}i\'{c}*, IMFM
  Jack Koolen, University of Eindhoven
  Paul Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin
  (935-05-159)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Terwilliger Algebra of the Hypercube $Q_D$.
  Junie T. Go*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (935-05-186)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Generalization of the Terwilliger Algebra .
  Eric S Egge*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  (935-05-158)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Tiling the integers with translates of one finite set.
  Aaron D. Meyerowitz*, Florida Atlantic University
  Ethan M. Coven, Wesleyan University
  (935-05-223)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On wreath product of commutative association schemes.
  Sung-Yell Song*, Iowa State University
  (935-05-157)

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