AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 29, 2005 01:24:04

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

Friday October 21, 2005, 1:45 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical and Engineering Aspects of Coding Theory, I
Room 121, Burnett Hall
Organizers:
Lance Perez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln lperez@unl.edu
Judy Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jwalker@math.unl.edu
- 1:45 p.m.
  Mathematical Topics in Coding Theory.
  Vera Pless*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1011-05-127)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Communication Channel Models and Their Implications for Error Control.
  Thomas E Fuja*, University of Notre Dame
  (1011-94-59)

Saturday October 22, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical and Engineering Aspects of Coding Theory, II
Room 121, Burnett Hall
Organizers:
Lance Perez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln lperez@unl.edu
Judy Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jwalker@math.unl.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nested Interpolation for Reduced Complexity Soft Decoding of Reed Solomon Codes.
  Ralf Koetter*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
  (1011-94-382)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Multivariate Interpolation Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes And Decoding Beyond the Guruswami-Sudan Radius.
  Farzad Parvaresh*, University of California, San Diego
  Alexander Vardy, University of California, San Diego
  (1011-14-205)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On linear programming bounds for codes.
  Alexander Barg*, University of Maryland
  (1011-94-212)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An Explicit Construction of Universally Decodable Matrices.
  Pascal O Vontobel*, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Ashwin Ganesan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1011-94-135)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Sequences in chemistry and physics.
  Jonathan I Hall*, Michigan State University
  (1011-94-303)

Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical and Engineering Aspects of Coding Theory, III
Room 121, Burnett Hall
Organizers:
Lance Perez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln lperez@unl.edu
Judy Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jwalker@math.unl.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 3:30 p.m.
  Graph-Theoretic Constructions of LDPC Codes.
  Matt Koetz*, Nazareth College
  (1011-94-288)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Minimal Pseudo-codewords of Codes from Finite Geometries.
  Roxana Smarandache*, Mathematics, Univ of Notre Dame/San Diego State University
  Pascal O. Vontobel, Dept. of ECE, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1011-94-76)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Pseudo-codewords of LDPC codes.
  Ralf Koetter, University of Illinois,Urbana, IL, 61801
  Wen-Ching Winnie Li*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
  Pascal O. Vontobel, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
  Judy L. Walker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0130
  (1011-05-235)

Sunday October 23, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical and Engineering Aspects of Coding Theory, IV
Room 121, Burnett Hall
Organizers:
Lance Perez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln lperez@unl.edu
Judy Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jwalker@math.unl.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Duality Theory for Space-Time Codes over Finite Fields.
  David Grant*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  Mahesh K Varanasi, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (1011-94-291)
- 9:30 a.m.
  McEliece Theorems for Cyclic Codes over Galois Rings.
  Daniel J. Katz*, Princeton University, Department of Mathematics
  (1011-05-253)
- 10:00 a.m.
  s-Extremal Additive GF(4) Codes.
  Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
  Judy Walker, University of Nebraska -- Lincoln
  (1011-94-289)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Self-Dual Codes over $Z_8$ and $Z_9$.
  Steven Dougherty, University of Scranton
  Aaron Gulliver*, University of Victoria
  (1011-94-144)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Invariant-based Face Recognition.
  Nigel Boston*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (1011-22-283)

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