AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 10, 2007 00:26:22

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday March 3, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applicable Algebra, I
Room 2084, Chambers Building
Organizers:
Nigel Boston, University of South Carolina
Hiren Maharaj, Clemson University hmahara@clemson.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Automorphisms, isomorphisms, and algebraic geometry codes.
  Gretchen L. Matthews*, Clemson University
  (1024-14-169)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Computation of Explicit Bases for a Class of Riemann-Roch Spaces.
  Wendy Dandurand*, Clemson University
  (1024-14-252)
- 9:30 a.m.
  MDS or Near-MDS Self-Dual Codes.
  T. Aaron Gulliver, University of Victoria
  Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
  Yoonjin Lee, Simon Fraser University
  (1024-94-107)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Implementing a Gradient Descent Decoding Algorithm for Block Codes.
  Robert A Liebler*, Colorado State University
  (1024-94-111)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Fast Fourier Transform on the Rook Monoid.
  Martin Malandro*, Dartmouth College
  Dan Rockmore, Dartmouth College
  (1024-20-22)

Saturday March 3, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applicable Algebra, II
Room 2084, Chambers Building
Organizers:
Nigel Boston, University of South Carolina
Hiren Maharaj, Clemson University hmahara@clemson.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Fidelity of Quantum Coded Measurement.
  Alexei Ashikhmin*, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent
  (1024-81-260)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Boolean Functions, Projection Operators and Quantum Error Correcting Codes.
  Vaneet Aggarwal, Princeton University
  Robert Calderbank*, Princeton University
  (1024-81-217)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the Use of Division Algebras for Wireless Communication.
  Frederique Oggier*, California Institute of Technology
  (1024-94-157)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Twisted cyclic division algebras and space-time codes.
  David R Grant*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  Mahesh K Varanasi, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (1024-94-189)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Beyond semi-rings: sum-product algorithm over rings.
  Pascal O. Vontobel*, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
  (1024-94-255)

Sunday March 4, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applicable Algebra, III
Room 2084, Chambers Building
Organizers:
Nigel Boston, University of South Carolina
Hiren Maharaj, Clemson University hmahara@clemson.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Cryptographic hash functions from families of Ramanujan graphs.
  Denis Charles*, Microsoft Research
  Eyal Goren, McGill University
  Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
  (1024-68-146)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Identity Based Encryption for sensor networks.
  Matthew Darnall*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Kamal Srinivasan, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (1024-11-256)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Symmetric Cryptography and Algebraic Curves.
  Jose Felipe Voloch*, Univ. of Texas at Austin
  (1024-14-34)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Using the Gr\"{o}bner Fan of an Ideal for Polynomial Model Selection.
  Elena S Dimitrova*, Clamson University
  (1024-14-49)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Combinatorics of RNA Secondary Structures.
  Christine E Heitsch*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1024-05-250)

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