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

Thursday October 2, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Geometries, I
Room 118 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Stanley E. Payne, University of Colorad Denver spayne@math.cudenver.edu
Robert Allen Liebler, Colorado State University liebler@math.colostate.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Multiple Nests.
  Norman L. Johnson*, University of Iowa
  (989-51-67)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Sharply and Super Sharply Focused Arcs in Desarguesian Planes.
  William E Cherowitzo*, University of Colorado at Denver
  Leanne D Holder, St. Mary's University
  (989-51-197)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Arcs and Ovals from Abelian Groups.
  Dina Ghinelli*, Universit� di Roma "La Sapienza"
  Dieter Jungnickel, Universitaet Augsburg
  Marialuisa de Resmini, Universit� di Roma La Sapienza
  (989-52-188)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On $(2n,2,2n,n)$ relative difference sets in non-solvable groups.
  Yutaka Hiramine*, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University
  (989-05-65)

Thursday October 2, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Finite Geometries, II
Room 118 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Stanley E. Payne, University of Colorad Denver spayne@math.cudenver.edu
Robert Allen Liebler, Colorado State University liebler@math.colostate.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Blocking sets of external lines to a conic in PG(2,q).
  Gabor Korchmaros*, Mathematics Department University of Basilicata, Italy
  (989-51-92)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the existence of certain generalized quadrangles.
  Vasyl Dmytrenko, Department of Mathematical Sciences
  Felix Lazebnik*, Department of Mathematical Sciences
  (989-05-210)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dimensional dual hyperovals associated with Steiner systems.
  Satoshi Yoshiara*, Tokyo Woman's Christian University
  Alberto del Fra, University of Rome
  (989-51-57)
- 4:00 p.m.
  When is $\Delta_2^\star(p)$ a subspace?
  Ernest E. Shult*, Kansas State University
  (989-51-243)

Friday October 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Geometries, III
Room 118 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Stanley E. Payne, University of Colorad Denver spayne@math.cudenver.edu
Robert Allen Liebler, Colorado State University liebler@math.colostate.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Eggs in $\mathrm{PG}(4n-1,q)$, $q$ even, containing a pseudo pointed conic.
  Matthew R Brown*, University of Adelaide, Australia
  Michel Lavrauw, Universita degli studi di Napoli Federico II
  (989-51-204)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Generalized quadrangles and their analogues via coherent configurations.
  Mikhail H. Klin*, University of Delaware, Newark and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
  Sven Reichard, University of Delaware, Newark
  (989-05-212)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Elation Points in Generalized Quadrangles.
  Koen J. R. Thas*, Ghent University
  (989-51-126)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Characterizations of finite translation generalized quadrangles.
  Joseph A Thas*, Ghent University (Belgium)
  (989-51-125)

Friday October 3, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Finite Geometries, IV
Room 118 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Stanley E. Payne, University of Colorad Denver spayne@math.cudenver.edu
Robert Allen Liebler, Colorado State University liebler@math.colostate.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Odd order conjecture of translation planes.
  Chat Y. Ho*, University of Florida
  (989-20-60)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Construction of Some New Projective Planes.
  G Eric Moorhouse*, University of Wyoming
  (989-05-44)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Classification of flag transitive planes of order 32.
  Patrick S Fleming*, University of Wyoming
  (989-51-113)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Orbit Computation and Applications in Finite Geometry.
  Anton Betten*, Colorado State University
  (989-51-136)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Hemisystems of $H(3,q^2)$.
  Tim Penttila*, University of Western Australia
  (989-51-38)

Saturday October 4, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Geometries, V
Room 118 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Stanley E. Payne, University of Colorad Denver spayne@math.cudenver.edu
Robert Allen Liebler, Colorado State University liebler@math.colostate.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Partial Ovoids and Spans of the Hermitian Surface.
  G. L. Ebert*, University of Delaware
  (989-51-54)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Characterizing "Neoclassical" Unitals as Codewords.
  Kenneth L Wantz*, Southern Nazarene University
  Ronald D Baker, West Virginia State College
  (989-51-37)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The non-existence of ovoids in the dual polar space DW(6,q).
  Bruce N. Cooperstein*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Antonio Pasini, University of Siena
  (989-51-185)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Caps on a Hermitian variety.
  James W Hirschfeld*, University of Sussex
  (989-51-48)

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