AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:10

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

Saturday April 8, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory, I
Room 126, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Judy Walker, University of Nebraska jwalker@math.unl.edu
Jay Wood, Purdue University, Calumet wood@calumet.purdue.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some properties of the relatives of projective Reed-Muller codes.
  Peng Ding*, Clemson University, SC
  (953-94-174)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Minimum weight generators of generalized Reed-Muller codes.
  Jennifer D. Key*, Clemson University, SC
  (953-94-113)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On $(q^2+q+2,q+2)$-arcs in the projective plane $\mathrm{PG}(2,q)$.
  Harold N. Ward*, University of Virginia
  (953-94-87)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dual Codes of Translation Planes.
  Kelle L. Clark*, Clemson University, SC
  (953-94-114)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Orthogonal Designs and Space-Time Codes for Wireless Communication.
  Robert Calderbank*, AT&T Labs
  (953-05-241)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Algorithmic machinery for answering questions about existence and properties of hypothetical binary linear codes with specific parameters.
  David B Jaffe*, Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln
  (953-94-236)

Saturday April 8, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory, II
Room 126, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Judy Walker, University of Nebraska jwalker@math.unl.edu
Jay Wood, Purdue University, Calumet wood@calumet.purdue.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quaternary Quasi-Cyclic Codes and Some New Binary Codes.
  Nuh Aydin*, The Ohio State University
  Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, The Ohio State University
  (953-05-44)
- 3:30 p.m.
  When the Binary Images of GF(4) Codes are Doubly-Even.
  Vera Pless*, UnUniv. of Illinois-Chicago icago
  (953-94-47)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Codes with a non-Hamming metric.
  Steven T Dougherty*, University of Scranton
  (953-94-84)
- 4:30 p.m.
  MDS Codes over Finite Rings.
  Hiroshi Horimoto, Kumamoto University
  Keisuke Shiromoto*, Louisiana State University
  (953-05-198)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Preordered Sets and Codes over Rings.
  Marcus Greferath, Ohio University at Athens
  Stefan E. Schmidt*, M.I.T.
  (953-05-213)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A $\mathbb{Z}_8$-linear Lift of the Golay Code and Derived Examples of Outperforming Nonlinear Binary Codes.
  Iwan M Duursma, University of Limoges, France
  Marcus Greferath*, Ohio University at Athens, OH
  Simon Litsyn, University of Tel Aviv
  Stefan E Schmidt, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  (953-05-265)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Finite Frobenius Local Rings, Partial Difference Sets and Two-Weight Codes.
  Xiang-dong Hou*, Wright State University
  (953-05-297)

Sunday April 9, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory, III
Room 126, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Judy Walker, University of Nebraska jwalker@math.unl.edu
Jay Wood, Purdue University, Calumet wood@calumet.purdue.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  About Convolutional Codes with Large Free Distance.
  Roxana N Smarandache*, University of Notre Dame
  (953-94-259)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bounding minimum distances of cyclic codes using algebraic geometry.
  Nigel Boston*, UIUC
  (953-14-169)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Weierstrass gap set of an $m$-tuple and the minimum distance of an associated Goppa code.
  Gretchen L Matthews*, University of Tennessee
  (953-94-248)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Remarks on the performance of linear codes in a symmetric channel.
  Donald W Newhart, NSA
  Mark S Vincent*, NSA
  (953-94-332)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An alternative approach to error evaluation for one-point codes.
  Michael E. O'Sullivan*, National University of Ireland, Cork
  Ralf K\"otter, University of Illinois
  (953-94-318)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Algebraic Soft Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes.
  Ralf Koetter*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Alexander Vardy, University of California, San Diego
  (953-94-298)

Sunday April 9, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory, IV
Room 126, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Judy Walker, University of Nebraska jwalker@math.unl.edu
Jay Wood, Purdue University, Calumet wood@calumet.purdue.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On Weight Distributions of Codes of Planes of Order 9.
  Kevin L Chouinard*, Northern VA Comm. College
  (953-94-181)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Structure of $1$-Generator Quasi-Twisted Codes and New Linear Codes.
  Nuh Aydin, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio-State University
  Irfan Siap*, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
  Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio-State University
  (953-05-79)

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