AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 30, 2006 00:36:37

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

Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory---Honoring the Retirement of Vera Pless, I
Room 719, Swift Hall
Organizers:
William Cary Huffman, Loyola University wch@math.luc.edu
Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville jl.kim@louisville.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Automorphism groups of rational circulant graphs.
  Mikhail Klin*, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  Istvan Kovacs, University of Primorska
  (1020-20-237)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Structural Result on Circulant Weighing Matrices.
  Vassil Y Yorgov*, Fayetteville State University
  (1020-05-208)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On tresholds for secret sharing schemes.
  Iwan M. Duursma*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1020-94-236)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Degenerate Stabilizer Codes.
  Judy L Walker*, University of Nebraska
  (1020-94-221)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Bounds on ordered codes and orthogonal arrays.
  Alexander Barg*, University of Maryland
  Punarbasu Purkayastha, University of Maryland
  (1020-94-171)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Gleason's Theorem on Self-Dual Codes and Its Generalizations.
  Neil J.A. Sloane*, AT&T Shannon Labs
  (1020-94-31)

Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory---Honoring the Retirement of Vera Pless, II
Room 719, Swift Hall
Organizers:
William Cary Huffman, Loyola University wch@math.luc.edu
Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville jl.kim@louisville.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The minimum weight of dual codes from projective planes.
  J. D. Key*, Clemson University
  (1020-05-70)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Combinatorial Designs and Code Synchronization.
  Vladimir D. Tonchev*, Michigan Technological Universirty
  (1020-94-63)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Optical Orthogonal Codes from Arcs in Root Subspaces.
  Keith E. Mellinger*, University of Mary Washington
  Tim Alderson, University of New Brunswick - Saint John
  (1020-51-11)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Towards a classification of three-dimensional Griesmer codes.
  Ray Hill, University of Salford
  Harold Ward*, University of Virginia
  (1020-94-174)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Optimal Linear Codes over $Z_m$.
  Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton
  T. Aaron Gulliver*, University of Victoria
  Young Ho Park, Kangwon National University
  John N.C. Wong, University of Victoria
  (1020-94-233)

Sunday October 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory---Honoring the Retirement of Vera Pless, III
Room 719, Swift Hall
Organizers:
William Cary Huffman, Loyola University wch@math.luc.edu
Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville jl.kim@louisville.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On Modular Cyclic Codes.
  Steven T Dougherty*, University of Scranton
  Young Ho Park, Kangwon National University
  (1020-94-138)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Equivalence of Linear Codes over Finite Rings.
  Jay A. Wood*, Western Michigan University
  (1020-94-06)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Number of Inequivalent Binary Self-Orthogonal Codes.
  Xiang-dong Hou*, University of South Florida
  (1020-94-64)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A bound for certain $s$-extremal codes and lattices.
  Philippe Gaborit*, Universit\'e de Limoges
  (1020-05-234)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Duadic codes at length.
  Patrick Sole*, CNRS-I3S
  (1020-94-20)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Optimal Subcodes of Self-Dual Codes.
  Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
  Vera Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1020-94-163)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Additive Self-Dual Codes over GF(4) with an Odd Order Automorphism.
  W. Cary Huffman*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Loyola University of Chicago
  (1020-94-153)

Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory---Honoring the Retirement of Vera Pless, IV
Room 719, Swift Hall
Organizers:
William Cary Huffman, Loyola University wch@math.luc.edu
Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville jl.kim@louisville.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  An approach to decoding Hermitian codes.
  Gretchen L. Matthews*, Clemson University
  (1020-94-253)
- 2:30 p.m.
  LDPC Codes of Arbitrary Girth.
  Tsvetan I Asamov*, Kenyon College
  Nuh Aydin, Kenyon College
  (1020-05-198)

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