AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:58

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

Friday March 19, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Designs, I
Room 241, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Ilene H. Morgan, University of Missouri-Rolla imorgan@umr.edu
Walter D. Wallis, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale wdwallis@math.siu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  New balanced neighbor designs from modifications of the Lucas/Walecki construction.
  Donald A. Preece*, University of Kent at Canterbury
  (941-05-53)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Finding Large Single Change Covering Designs.
  Nicholas C Phillips*, Southern Illinois University
  (941-05-102)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Almost Perfect One-Factorizations: Some Examples and Properties.
  Emily R Petrie*, Merrimack College
  Edwin Ihrig, Arizona State University
  (941-05-306)

Friday March 19, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Designs, II
Room 241, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Ilene H. Morgan, University of Missouri-Rolla imorgan@umr.edu
Walter D. Wallis, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale wdwallis@math.siu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Arcs and curves over a finite field.
  James W.P. Hirschfeld*, University of Sussex
  Gabor Korchmaros, University of Basilicata
  (941-51-109)
- 4:00 p.m.
  From algebraic-geometric codes to limited bias and dependence.
  J\"urgen Bierbrauer*, Michigan Technological University
  (941-05-196)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Intersection Numbers.
  Vera Pless*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (941-05-182)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Strongly regular graphs and designs with three intersection numbers.
  Yury J Ionin, Central Michigan University
  Mohan S Shrikhande*, Central Michigan University
  (941-05-21)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A new family of symmetric designs.
  Yury J Ionin*, Central Michigan University
  (941-05-14)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Designs, III
Room 241, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Ilene H. Morgan, University of Missouri-Rolla imorgan@umr.edu
Walter D. Wallis, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale wdwallis@math.siu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the construction of compound orthogonal arrays.
  Samad Hedayat*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  John Stufken, Iowa State University
  (941-05-162)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Constructing Starters with Holes.
  Rolf Rees*, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland
  Nabil Shalaby, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland
  (941-05-291)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On algebraic designs in association schemes.
  Sung Y Song*, Iowa State University
  (941-05-175)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Constructing orthomorphisms of $GF(3)^+\times GF(q)^+$.
  Anthony B Evans*, Wright State University
  (941-05-215)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Designs, IV
Room 241, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Ilene H. Morgan, University of Missouri-Rolla imorgan@umr.edu
Walter D. Wallis, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale wdwallis@math.siu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Designing For Experimental Results That Arise Sequentially.
  Deborah J Street*, UTS
  (941-05-243)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On a balanced incomplete split-block design.
  K. Ozawa, Gifu University, Japan
  M. Jimbo*, Keio University, Japan
  S. Kageyama, Hiroshima University
  S. Mejza, Agricultural University of Paznan, Poland
  (941-05-326)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On c-Bhaskar Rao Designs.
  Spencer P. Hurd, The Citadel
  Dinesh G. Sarvate*, University of Charleston
  (941-05-114)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Cyclic Difference Packings.
  Christopher N. Swanson*, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
  (941-05-35)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Constructing balanced nested designs.
  Ying Miao*, University of Tsukuba
  (941-05-198)

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