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Southeastern Spring Sectional Meeting
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
March 21-23, 2014 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1097

Associate secretaries:

Brian D. Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

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Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Graph Theory and Combinatorics

• Friday March 21, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Graph Theory and Combinatorics, I
  Room 405, Min Kao Hall
  Organizers:
  Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
  Andrew Woldar, Villanova University
  Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University Bangteng.Xu@eku.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Poset loops.
    Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
    (1097-06-98)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Spectrum of Wenger Graphs.
    Weiqiang Li*, University of Delaware
    (1097-05-412)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Noncommutative imprimitive association schemes of rank 6.
    Christopher P French*, Grinnell College
    (1097-20-379)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Tridiagonal pairs of $q$-Racah type, the double lowering operator $\psi$, and the quantum algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$.
    Sarah R. Bockting-Conrad*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1097-05-514)
• Saturday March 22, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Graph Theory and Combinatorics, II
  Room 405, Min Kao Hall
  Organizers:
  Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
  Andrew Woldar, Villanova University
  Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University Bangteng.Xu@eku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the structure of strongly regular and distance-regular graphs: connectivity and matchings.
    Sebastian M Cioaba*, University of Delaware
    (1097-05-220)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Leonard pairs and the $q$-Tetrahedron algebra.
    Paul M. Terwilliger*, U. Wisconsin-Madison
    (1097-33-429)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Characteristic and curvature of finite association schemes.
    Paul-Hermann Zieschang*, University of Texas
    (1097-05-245)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cyclotomic association schemes, difference sets and families.
    Kathleen Nowak, Iowa State University
    Oktay Olmez, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
    Sung Y Song*, Iowa State University
    (1097-05-14)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quotient Structures and Partial Wreath Products in Algebras and Association Schemes.
    Harvey I. Blau*, Northern Illinois University
    (1097-20-188)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Weighted association schemes, fusions, and minimal coherent closures.
    Alyssa Sankey*, University of New Brunswick
    (1097-05-455)
• Saturday March 22, 2014, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Graph Theory and Combinatorics, III
  Room 405, Min Kao Hall
  Organizers:
  Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
  Andrew Woldar, Villanova University
  Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University Bangteng.Xu@eku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Strongly regular graphs from large arcs in affine planes.
    Tim Penttila*, Colorado State University
    Liz Lane-Harvard, Colorado State University
    Stanley E Payne, University of Colorado Denver
    (1097-05-315)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Permutation-like Matrix Groups with a Maximal Cycle of Prime Square Length.
    Yun Fan*, Central China Normal University
    (1097-15-129)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Constructions of $Q$-polynomial schemes.
    Jason S Williford*, University of Wyoming
    (1097-05-518)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Two-graphs and finite geometries.
    G. Eric Moorhouse*, University of Wyoming
    (1097-05-497)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Products of association schemes.
    R. A. Bailey*, University of St Andrews, UK
    (1097-05-16)
• Sunday March 23, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Graph Theory and Combinatorics, IV
  Room 405, Min Kao Hall
  Organizers:
  Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
  Andrew Woldar, Villanova University
  Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University Bangteng.Xu@eku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Automorphisms of Steiner designs.
    Laszlo Babai, University of Chicago
    John Wilmes*, University of Chicago
    (1097-05-425)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Edge-maximality of power graphs of finite cyclic groups.
    Brian Curtin*, University of South Florida
    G R Pourgholi, University of Tehran
    (1097-05-132)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generalized Quadrangles and Algebraically Defined Graphs.
    Brian G. Kronenthal*, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
    (1097-05-427)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fissioning the classes of an association scheme.
    Kenneth W Johnson*, Penn State Abington
    (1097-05-441)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the order of the automorphism groups of strongly regular graphs.
    Xi Chen, Columbia University, Department of Computer Science
    Xiaorui Sun*, Columbia University, Department of Computer Science
    Shang-Hua Teng, University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science
    (1097-05-356)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalizations of a theorem of Benson for generalized quadrangles.
    Stefaan De Winter*, Michigan Technological University
    (1097-05-376)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Sidon sets and extremal graph theory.
    Craig Timmons*, University of California San Diego
    Jacques Verstraete, University of California San Diego
    (1097-05-190)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Dual Bent Functions on Finite Groups and $C$-algebras.
    Bangteng Xu*, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1097-05-113)

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