AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:32

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Friday October 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry to Coding, I
Room 200 (2nd Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
David R. Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder frant@boulder.colorado.edu
Jose Felipe Voloch, University of Texasat Austin voloch@math.utexas.edu
Judy Leavitt Walker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln jwalker@math.unl.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cyclic caps of more than $3q^2$ points in $AG(4,q)$ in characteristic $2.$.
  Juergen Bierbrauer*, Michigan Technological University
  (989-51-148)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algebraic Constructions of Low-Density Parity Check Codes.
  Matthew T Koetz*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  (989-11-164)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Applications of Algebraic Number Theory in Multi-antenna Wireless Communications.
  Pranav Dayal*, University of Colorado, Boulder.
  Mahesh K Varanasi, University of Colorado, Boulder.
  (989-94-259)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Space-Time Coding and the Diophantine Approximation Theory.
  Hesham El Gamal*, The Ohio State University
  Mohamed Oussama Damen, University of Alberta
  (989-11-256)

Friday October 3, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry to Coding, II
Room 200 (2nd Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
David R. Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder frant@boulder.colorado.edu
Jose Felipe Voloch, University of Texasat Austin voloch@math.utexas.edu
Judy Leavitt Walker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln jwalker@math.unl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Minimal Degree Liftings of Hyperelliptic Curves.
  Luis R Finotti*, University of California Santa Barbara
  (989-11-100)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Weierstrass semigroups and codes from a class of maximal non-classical curves.
  Gretchen L. Matthews*, Clemson University
  (989-14-162)
- 3:30 p.m.
  An Improvement of the Feng-Rao Bound on Minimum Distance.
  Diana Dunn, University of Arkansas
  Sarah B. Graham, Clemson University
  Gary Salazar*, Trinity University
  (989-14-161)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:30 p.m.
  Algebraic Geometric Codes on Low Rank Surfaces.
  Marcos A Zarzar*, University of Texas at Austin
  (989-11-179)

Saturday October 4, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry to Coding, III
Room 200 (2nd Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
David R. Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder frant@boulder.colorado.edu
Jose Felipe Voloch, University of Texasat Austin voloch@math.utexas.edu
Judy Leavitt Walker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln jwalker@math.unl.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  The distribution of class groups of function fields.
  Jeffrey D Achter*, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
  (989-11-13)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The two-variable zeta function of a curve and algebraic-geometric codes.
  Iwan M Duursma*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (989-11-127)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Modularity of Asymptotically Optimal Recursive Towers.
  Wen-Ching Winnie Li*, Penn State University
  (989-14-87)
- 11:30 a.m.
  An application of Galois covers of the affine line to maximal curves.
  Rachel J Pries*, Colorado State University
  (989-11-76)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Nonbinary Quantum Error-Correcting Codes from Algebraic Curves.
  Jon-Lark Kim*, Department of Math, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Judy L. Walker, Department of Math, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (989-94-146)

Saturday October 4, 2003, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry to Coding, IV
Room 200 (2nd Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
David R. Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder frant@boulder.colorado.edu
Jose Felipe Voloch, University of Texasat Austin voloch@math.utexas.edu
Judy Leavitt Walker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln jwalker@math.unl.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Various results on finite fields with applications to codes.
  Nigel Boston*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (989-11-182)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Minimum Homogeneous Weight of Trace Codes over Galois Rings.
  Marcus Greferath*, San Diego State University
  Michael O'Sullivan, San Diego State University
  Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University
  (989-05-236)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Unified Framework for Decoding "Ideal-based" Codes.
  Venkatesan Guruswami*, University of Washington
  (989-68-166)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The minimum distance of some 2-D cyclic codes.
  Robert F Lax*, LSU
  (989-94-32)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Convolutional codes with Maximum Distance Profile.
  Roxana Smarandache*, San Diego State University
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Oldenburg
  Ryan Hutchinson, University of Notre Dame
  Joachim Rosenthal, University of Notre Dame
  (989-94-142)
- 4:30 p.m.
  An Essay on Equivalence of Linear Codes.
  Jay A. Wood*, Western Michigan University
  (989-94-192)

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