AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 12, 2008 00:23:32

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

Saturday April 5, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Aspects of Coding Theory, I
Room 247, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky heidegl@ms.uky.edu
Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@sciences.sdsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Sequential Codes.
  Sergio R L\'opez-Permouth*, Ohio University
  Benigno R Parra-Avila, Ohio University
  (1038-94-323)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dual Codes over Finite Rings---Cautions and Compromises.
  Jay A. Wood*, Western Michigan University
  (1038-94-59)
- 9:30 a.m.
  An exact bound on dimension of binary divisible codes.
  Xiaoyu Liu*, Wright State University
  (1038-05-246)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Constacyclic Codes Of Length $p^s$ Over $\mathbb F_{p^m} + u\mathbb F_{p^m}$.
  Hai Q. Dinh*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, 4314 Mahoning Avenue, Warren, OH 44483, USA
  (1038-94-285)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Convolutional Codes with Additional Structure.
  Steve Szabo*, Ohio University
  Sergio R. L\'opez-Permouth, Ohio University
  (1038-16-273)

Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Aspects of Coding Theory, II
Room 247, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky heidegl@ms.uky.edu
Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@sciences.sdsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Recent Results on Asymptotically Good Code Ensembles.
  Daniel J. Costello*, University of Notre Dame
  (1038-94-300)
- 3:30 p.m.
  List Decoding of Burst Errors.
  Ron M. Roth, Computer Science Department, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  Pascal O. Vontobel*, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
  (1038-94-32)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Spherical codes for sparse digital fingerprinting.
  Dai Wei, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Negar Kiyavash, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Olgica Milenkovic*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (1038-05-188)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Pseudocodeword weights and the parity-check matrix redundancy of linear codes.
  Christine A. Kelley*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Deepak Sridhara, Seagate Technology
  (1038-94-288)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Pseudocodewords of LDPC codes from voltage graphs.
  Deanna T. Dreher*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  (1038-94-260)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Convergences of the Sum-Product Algorithm on Some Small Multi-Edged Graphs.
  Shayne Michael Vargo*, San Diego State University
  (1038-94-203)

Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Aspects of Coding Theory, III
Room 247, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky heidegl@ms.uky.edu
Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@sciences.sdsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Linear programming bounds for secret sharing thresholds.
  Iwan Duursma*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Radoslav Kirov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1038-94-202)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On quantum codes from multipoint AG codes.
  Gretchen L. Matthews*, Clemson University
  Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville
  (1038-94-219)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Unit-derived codes.
  Ted Hurley*, National University of Ireland, Galway. Galway, Ireland.
  (1038-94-53)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spread Codes for Network Coding, a Grassmannian Approach.
  Joachim Rosenthal*, University of Zurich
  Elisa Gorla, University of Zurich
  Felice Manganiello, University of Zurich
  (1038-94-208)

Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Aspects of Coding Theory, IV
Room 247, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky heidegl@ms.uky.edu
Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@sciences.sdsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  List Decoding BCH Codes Using Gr\"obner Bases.
  Philip R. Busse*, University of Kentucky
  (1038-14-230)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Self-dual codes over finite chain rings.
  Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton
  Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
  Hongwei Liu, Central China Normal University
  (1038-94-89)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Code loops of both parities.
  Petr Vojt\v{e}chovsk\'y*, University of Denver, Department of Mathematics
  (1038-05-26)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On self-dual codes over $\mathbb{F}_5$.
  Sunghyu Han*, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
  Jon-Lark Kim, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
  (1038-94-54)

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