AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 25, 2008 00:42:28

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Linear Codes Over Rings and Modules, I
Room 2020, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton doughertys1@Scranton.edu
Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Higher Weights for Codes over Rings.
  Steven T. Dougherty*, University of Scranton
  Sunghyu Han, University of Louisville
  Hongwei Liu, Huazhong Normal University
  (1043-13-30)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Building-up Constructions for Self-Dual Codes.
  Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
  Yoonjin Lee, Ewha Womans University
  (1043-94-29)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Generalized Gleason-Pierce-Ward Theorem.
  Xiaoyu Liu*, Wright State University
  Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville
  (1043-94-10)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Toric codes.
  John B Little*, College of the Holy Cross
  (1043-94-38)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Average Min-Sum Decoding Algorithm.
  Nathan Axvig*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1043-94-182)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Rational power series and sequential codes.
  Xiang-dong Hou*, University of South Florida
  S. R. Lopez-Permouth, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701
  B. R. Parra-Avila, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701
  (1043-13-160)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Problem Session

Saturday October 18, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Linear Codes Over Rings and Modules, II
Room 2020, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton doughertys1@Scranton.edu
Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  On list decoding algebraic geometry codes over rings.
  Nathan Drake*, Clemson University
  Gretchen L. Matthews, Clemson University
  (1043-14-171)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Recent results on codes designed from permutation matrices.
  Christine A. Kelley*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1043-94-199)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the weight distribution of extended $\mathbb{Z}_4$-linear quadratic residue codes.
  Michael Kiermaier*, Universität Bayreuth
  Alfred Wassermann, Universität Bayreuth
  (1043-11-120)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The use of Frobenius rings in coding theory: a personal view.
  Jay A. Wood*, Western Michigan University
  (1043-94-39)

Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Linear Codes Over Rings and Modules, III
Room 2020, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton doughertys1@Scranton.edu
Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Negacyclic codes over Galois rings.
  Sergio R López-Permouth*, Ohio University
  Steve Szabo, Ohio University
  (1043-94-204)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Isometries for convolutional codes.
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen*, U. of Kentucky, Dept. of Mathematics, 715 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506
  (1043-94-105)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Repeated-root constacyclic codes of prime power length over polynomial residue rings.
  Hai Q Dinh*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Warren, OH 44483, USA
  (1043-94-197)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Problem Session

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