Algebraic Combinatorics talks given in previous semesters

Fall 1997 Spring 1998 Fall 2003 Spring 2004
Fall 1998 Spring 1999 Fall 2004 Spring 2005
Fall 1999 Spring 2000 Fall 2005 Spring 2006
Fall 2000 Spring 2001
Fall 2001 Spring 2002
Fall 2002 Spring 2003



Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Spring 2006

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Jan. 27G. E. MoorhouseU WyomingUsing the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem
W. E. CherowitzoUCDHSCConstructing the Tits Ovoid from an Elliptic Quadric
Feb. 10Tim PenttilaU Western Australia, PerthApplications of Eigenvalue Techniques in Polar Spaces
Oscar VegaU. IowaA Polynomial Invariant for Spreads
Feb. 24Judy WalkerU NebraskaCharacterizing Pseudocodewords of LDPC Codes
Robert A LieblerCSUToward Understanding Iterative Decoding
Mar. 3Richard GreenC U BoulderSome combinatorial representations of affine Kac--Moody algebras
Andy CurtisCSU - Computer ScienceEfficient Representation of Chordal Comparability Graphs
Mar. 24Petr VojtechovskyUniversity of DenverExponential Forms and Combinatorial Polarization
Richard M. WilsonCaltechMore on Decompositions of Edge-colored Complete Graphs
Apr. 7Abdulla Al-AzemiCSUAlgorithms For Isomorphism Checking And Generation Of Simple Graphs
Stan Payne UCDHSCFinite Laguerre Geometries and Generalized Quadrangles


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Fall 2005

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sep. 16Stefaan De WinterGhent University, BelgiumPartial Geometries with a Regular Abelian Automorphism Group
Richard M GreenC U BoulderStar reducible Coxeter groups
Sept. 30Anton BettenCSUHow to construct a hyperoval
Sylvia HobartU WyomingTerwilliger Algebras are Applied
Oct. 14Alexander HulpkeCSUCalculations for verifying the S3 conjecture
Chris FrederickCSURamsey Regions
Oct. 28Cheryl E. PraegerU Western Australia, PerthImprimitive group actions on designs
Elizabeth Scott-JandaCSU and Bowling Green U.Lenz-Barlotti I.4 perspectivity groups are Abelian
Nov. 11Bryan ShaderU WyomingSpectrally transverse graphs
Hirotachi AboC S UArrangements of 2-planes in projective fourspace formed from the Petersen graph
Dec. 2Benson JoerisCSUCircular-Arc Graphs
Mike FerraraUCDHSCPotentially H-graphic Sequences


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Spring 2005

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Feb. 4Margret JonsdottirCSUAn algorithm for computing the automorphism group of a finite group
Robert A LieblerCSUNeodifference sets in quaternionic homomorphic images
Feb. 18G. Eric MoorhouseU WyomingExponential Sums in Finite Geometry
Mar. 4R. W. ButlerC S U - StatSimplifying Mason's rule to determine response functions in large stochastic feedback systems
William CherowitzoUCDHSCSome Open Problems concerning Sharply Focused and Hyperfocused Arcs in Desarguesian Planes
Mar. 25E. E. ShultKansas State Univ.Locally Truncated Geometries Updated
Rieuwert BlokCSU and Bowling Green U.Affine Geometries
Apr. 8Petr VojtechovskyDUUnit Disk Covering Problems
Jeremy DoverGeneral DynamicsSpreads of Hermitian Unitals
Apr. 22Ilhan HaciogluCSUThe integral structure of Hecke algebras for finite generalized polygons
S. E. PayneUCDHSCElliptic Quadrics in PG(3,q)
May 6Stephen DotyLoyola Univ.The deranged algebra
Michael S. JacobsonUCDHSCGenerating the k-element subsets of an n-element set (and other applications of de Bruijn digraphs)


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Fall 2004

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sep. 17Ross M. McConnellCSUCombinatorial Problems on Circular-Arc Graphs
G. Eric MoorhouseU WyoEmbedding Finite Partial Linear Spaces in Finite Planes
Oct. 1Colva Roney-DougalUniversity of St Andrews, UKConstructing maximal subgroups of classical groups
Hirotachi AboCSUPaley Graphs and Rational Points of Varieties
Oct. 15Rieuwert BlokC S UGenerating sets for symplectic geometries
Stan PayneCU-DenverGeneralized Fans, Spreads of T2(O) and Alpha-Flocks
Nov. 5Richard GreenCU-BoulderAcyclic heaps of pieces
William CherowitzoCU-DenverHölz Designs
Nov. 19Petr VojtechovskyDUExtensions based on Steiner triple systems
Robert RostermundtCU-DenverConditions for the Existence of 4-Gonal Families in an Elation Group of H(3,q2)
Dec. 3Rieuwert BlokCSUPartial Orders on Coxeter groups
Anton BettenCSUGeometric Codes


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Spring 2004

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Feb. 5Jianmin MaCSUIterative decoding of low density parity-codes
Sylvia HobartU WyoQuasi-symmetric designs related to the triangular graph
Feb. 20Ross M. McConnellCSUDATA STRUCTURES FOR SEARCHING IN TEXTS
Stan PayneCU-DenverCONDITIONS FOR SINGULAR INCIDENCE MATRICES
Mar. 5Jon Lark KimU. NebraskaLDPC codes from nets, generalized quadrangles, and partial geometries
Anton BettenC S UComputing Optimal Linear Codes
Mar. 26Nicholas KrierC S UTwo Games on Graphs
William CherowitzoCU-DenverEmbedding 1-factorizations of complete graphs in PG(2,q)
Apr 9Petr VojtechovskyDUWreath products, dynamical systems and the interplay between associativity and commutativity
G. Eric MoorhouseUWyoDeflation in Affine Coxeter Groups
Apr 23Alexander HulpkeCSUFactorization into Generators
Tom EdgarCSULinear codes and Finite Geometries
May 7Reception Honoring Retiring Math Faculty
Sergey KitaevU KentuckyCombinatorics on words and graphs


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Fall 2003

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sept 5Jianmin MaCSUSome new 3 class association schemes
Richard Green CU-BoulderFreely braided elements in Coxeter groups
Sept 19 Peter BrooksbankOhio State UEfficient computation with matrix groups
Tim PenttilaU Western Australia (Perth)Symplectic spreads
Oct 17Ross McConnellCSUCommon factors in a set of linear orders
Tim PenttilaU Western Australia (Perth)Flocks and partial flocks of hyperbolic quadrics via root systems
Oct 31Stan PayneU Colorado Denver 2-Ranks of Some Perfect Difference Sets Derived from Monomial Hyperovals
G Eric MoorhouseU WyomingRanks of Nets and Webs
Nov 14R. A. LieblerC S U Counting irreducible semilinear transformations -- in context
Richard GreenC U BoulderSchubert varieties and free braidedness
Dec. 5Petr VojtechovskyDUSome Combinatorial Problems in Communication
Bill CherowitzoCU-DenverThe Automorphism Group of My Favorite Hyperoval


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Spring 2003

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Jan 31G. Eric MoorhouseU WyoThe Hidden Subgroup Problem
Ross McConnell CSUTHE CONSECUTIVE-ONES PROPERTY
Feb 14 K. W. SmithCentral Michigan UDifference Sets, Relative Difference Sets and GAP
A. CushmanAir Force AcademyA Search for an Abelian, Non-Cyclic Difference Sets
Feb 28Rieuwert J. BlokMichigan State UTopological aspects of active orders on matroid bases
Jianmin MaC S UCommutative fusion schemes of noncommutative association schemes
Mar 21Alexander HulpkeCSU Algorithms to find subgroups
William CherowitzoCU-DenverRédei blocking sets with two Rédei lines and quasigroups
Apr 4David C. TorneyLos Alamos National LabIsomorphism Classes of Constructed Designs
Harm PralleT U BraunschweigQuest for hyperplanes of dual polar spaces
Apr 18Petr VojtechovskyDUCombinatorial polarization and codes of high level
Bill CherowitzoCU-DenverShould I Reference My Computer?
May 9Sylvia HobartUWyoA weighted version of interlacing
Carey JenkinsCU-DenverNew Flocks of the Cone over the Segre Oval


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Fall 2002

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sept 6G. Eric MoorhouseU WyoPaige's simple Moufang loops
Bettina Eick TU BraunschweigComputing coclass-trees with GAP
Sept 27 Anton BettenC S USearching for line-transitive linear spaces preserving a grid structure on points
Ilaria CardinaliU Naples (Italy)A characterization of regular spreads of PG(3,q) which induce Hermitian spreads of Q-(5,q)
Oct 11Ross M. McConnellC S UCertifying Algorithms
Petr VojtechovskyDenver UDistances of Groups and Loops
Oct 25Stan PayneCU DenverThe Ghinelli--Löwe Construction of Generalized Quadrangles
Ken DriesselCSUThe importance of Toeplitz matrices
Nov 8Peter DukesArizona State USome inequalities on t-designs from the cone condition
Sylvia HobartU WyomingAutomorphism Groups, Eigenvectors and Matrix Algebras of Graphs
Nov 22Michael KinyonIndiana Univ. South BendQuasigroups, Loops, and Automated Reasoning
Eric MoorhouseU WyoMultiple Factorizations in Group Rings and Loop Rings
Dec 6Anton BettenCSUCoding theory and the geometry connection
Bill CherowitzoCU-DenverFlocks of Cones: Star Flocks


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Spring 2002

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Jan 18Akos SerresOhio State ULarge families of cospectral graphs
Stan PayneC U DenverA new look at q-clan geometries, q = 2e
Feb 1
S. A HobartU WyoWeakly Distance-Regular Digraphs
Problem Session
Feb 14CANCELLED
Mar 1CANCELLED
Mar 22Jason BandlowC S UA variety of combinatorial interpretations of the q-Catalan polynomial
Kendra KillpatrickC S UA t-statistic for the Schroder polynomials
Apr 5Bill CherowitzoCU DenverSo what is cyclic about a cyclic q-clan?
Stefaan D DelcroixU WyoSolvable linear groups: a generalization of Mal'cev's Theorem
Apr 19İlhan HaciogluC S UDiagram Geometries of Type B3
Bob LieblerC S UL4(2) = A8 directly and some related combinatorial structures
Apr 19Alexander Hulpke C S UDetermining the Galois group of a rational polynomial
Brian ShaderU WyoA solution to the weak road coloring conjecture


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Fall 2001

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sept 7R. A. LieblerCSU What is a Turbo Code? Why are they so GOOD?
W. E. CherowitzoC U DenverFlocks of Cones: Herds and Herd Spaces
Sept 21A. HulpkeCSUConstructing transitive permutation groups of fixed degree
S. A HobartU WyoNew Prolific Constructions of Strongly Regular Graphs of Fon-der-Flass
Oct 12Chanyoung Lee ShaderU WyoTypical Representations of Lie superalgebras
Stan PayneC U DenverRecent results of K. Thas on Translation Generalized Quadrangles
Oct 26Kendra KillpatrickC S UConnections between lattice paths and q,t statistics
Robert A. LieblerC S UNonAbelian Fast Fourier Transforms: Marketing Combinatorial Representation Theory
Nov 9Mark van HoeijFlorida State UniveristyFactoring polynomials by computing 0-1-vectors with lattice reduction
Ann CushmanU Southern ColoradoCombinatorial Factorizations
Nov 30Richard GreenLancaster Univ. (UK)Tabular Algebras
Stefan DelcroixU WyoSimple Groups that are not absolutely simple


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Spring 2001

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Feb 9R. A. LieblerCSUThe p rank of the Hermitian Unital
S.E. PayneC U Denver Elation Generalized Quadrangles
Feb 23G. E. MoorhouseU WyoThe LLL Algorithm for Lattices
W.E. CherowitzoC U DenverOvoids of PG(3,q), q even, with a conic section
Mar 16N. K. KrierC S USome recent advances in combinatorial game theory - what I did on my Summer Vacation.
Anton BettenU Bayreuth, GermanyPlesken Rings and intersection numbers of Designs
Apr 6S. A. HobartU WyoEquitable Partitions and Designs in Association Schemes
Eric EggeGettysburg CollegeRestricted Permutations, sorting and a remarkable continued fraction
Apr 20Robert CalderbankA T & T LaboratoriesTAILBITING REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BINARY GOLAY CODE
Kendra KilpatrickC S UA GENERALIZATION OF THE CATALAN POLYNOMIALS TO SCHROEDER POLYNOMIALS
May 4S. E. PayneC U DenverThe Generalized Factorial Function of Manjul Bhargava
Ilhan HacigluC S UThe Uniqueness of the Gewirtz Graph


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Fall 2000

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sept 8B. ShaderU. WyomingInteger solutions to systems of linear equations and 2-exponents of colored digraphs
W.E. CherowitzoC U DenverThe Magic Action and Groups of the Adelaide Herds
Sept 22R. A. LieblerCSUThe arithmetic invariants of point incidence maps in finite projective spaces I
S. A. HobartU WyoRepresentations of directed strongly regular graphs
Oct 6Gary EbertU DelawareHyperbolic Fibrations and q-Clans
S.E. PayneC U DenverFlock Generalized Quadrangles and Related Structures: An Update
Oct 20K. Killpatrick C S U Two-parameter polynomials: (q,t)-statistics for the two parameter Kostka polynomials and Catalan polynomials
S. Delcroix U WyoLocally Finite Simple Groups of Alternating Type
Nov 3Chanyoung Lee Shader U Wyo Representations of Symplectic Lie algebras and Combinatorics
Mark ShimozonoVirginia TechTowards a combinatorial formula for Lusztig's q-analogue of weight multiplicity.
Nov 17 E. MoorhouseU Wyo The Smallest Known Projective Planes
W. CherowitzoC U DenverRédei-type Blocking Sets, Star Flocks and Translation Planes
Dec 1Alex HulpkeOhio State U & CSU Lifting finite quotients of a finitely presented group
R. LieblerCSUThe arithmetic invariants of the incidence relations between points and k-flats in PGn(q) II


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Spring 2000

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Jan 28D. GlynnU Canterbury (NZ)Quantum Computing, Codes and Related Topics
S. A. HobartU WyoNew results on DSRGs
Feb 18 R. LieblerC S U Representing a Finite Geometry using its Hecke algebra
W. MartinU.Winnipeg$\lambda$-transitive permutation group and sets of permutations
Mar 3G. E. MoorhouseU WyomingQuasigroup Algebras and p-Ranks of Nets
P. SinU. FloridaThe elementary divisors of the incidence matrices of points and linear spaces in PG(n,p)
Mar 24K. SmithU. Central Michigan Search Algorthms for Difference Sets
S. SaneU. Mumbai Vidyanagari, IndiaCombination Locks, Orthogonal Arrays and Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares
Apr 7CANCELLED for MAA Meeting
Apr 21N. KrierC S UPenny Ante
S. E. PayneCU-DenverSpreads of the Generalized Quadrangle T2(O) and Generalized Fans
May 5A. TerrasU. C. San DiegoSelberg's Trace Formula and its Discrete Analogues
L. Holder CU-DenverConic Blocking Sets in Even Characteristic


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Fall 1999

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sept 3S. ReesU Newcastle (UK)Computing topological invariants of finite combinatorial complexes
M. LawUWA (Perth)Some flocks in characteristic 3
Sept 17 K. KillpatrickC S UKostka Polynomials, the Charge Statistic, and the Meaning of Life
T. PenttilaUWA (Perth)Flocks in Characteristic 2
Oct 1G. E. MoorhouseU WyomingCocliques in the E6(q) collinearity graph
S. E. PayneC U DenverThe Law-Penttila 3h-clan geometries
Oct 15 K. KillpatrickC S UThe Robinson-Schensted Correspondence and Littlewood-Richardson Coefficients
C. L. ShaderU WyomingGeneral Linear Lie superalgebra $gl(m,n)$ and its representations
Oct 29S. A. HobartU Wyoming Flag Algebras and Directed Strongly Regular Graphs
W. E. CherowitzoC U Denver Hyperovals: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
Nov 12K. KillpatrickC S UThe story continues: More About Domino Schensted and the q-Littlewood Richardson Coefficients
J. S. Caughman IVMSU (E. Lansing)The Last Subconstituent of a Bipartite Distance-Regular Graph
Dec 3A. HulpkeC S UComputing maximal subgroups of a permutation group
Y. Wang MSU (E. Lansing) The association schemes based on quadratic forms and symmetric bilinear forms II


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Spring 1999

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Feb 5R. LieblerC S UThe elementary divisors of the point-hyperplane incidence matrix of PG(n-1,q)
S. E. PayneC U DenverHow to Construct a Generalized Quadrangle $GQ(q^2,q)$ from a Flock of a Quadratic Cone
Feb 19 N. ThieryLyon, FranceAlgebraic approach to graph reconstruction
M. OngCheyene, WYDifference sets with Frobenius homomorphic images
Mar 5C. PraegerUWA (Perth)Quasiprimitive permutation groups and their actions on graphs and linear spaces
G. E. MoorhouseU WyomingCodes Spanned by Subspaces of Codimension 2 in $PG(n,q)$
Mar 19S. A. HobartU WyomingInterlacing, Eigenvalues, and Graph Diameter
S. E. PayneCU DenverGQs with property (G)
Apr 2K. SmithCMU (Mt. Pleasant) New infinite families of symmetric designs
J. MaC S UThe duality and primitivity of the association scheme of quadratic forms
Apr 16W. E. CherowitzoCU DenverOn the classification of monomial hyperovals
L. HolderCU DenverConic blocking sets
Apr 30B. DeBruijnU GentGeneralized quadrangles with a spread of symmetry
R. LieblerC S USearching for nonsolvable difference sets


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Fall 1998

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sept 12G. E. MoorhouseU WyomingThe p-rank of the Generalized Quadrangle W(p)
S. E. PayneC U DenverOn Penttila's new BLT constructions
Oct 2 D. deCaenQueens U. Ont.Nonregular graphs with three eigenvalues
R. A.LieblerC S UThe transfer matrix method
Oct 16Cristina BallantineU WyomingRamanujan type buildings
W. E. CherowitzoC U DenverStar flocks -flocks of cones IV
Oct 30S. A. HobartU WyomingWhat's the difference between P and Q polynomial
N. K. KrierC S UGo for mathematicians
Nov 13Cristina BallantineU Wyoming Affine Buildings
S. E. PayneC U DenverProperty (G) in GQ(s2, s)
Dec 4A. CushmanC S UCyclotomic association schemes: P mod Pi
Q. XiangU DelawareRecent results on difference sets


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Spring 1998

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
30 JanN. K. KrierC S UAbout A = B
A. CushmanC S UHyperovals and cyclic difference sets
13 FebM. A. MillerCU-DenverA Characterization of Certain GQ of Order (q+1, q-1), q = 2e
W.E. CherowitzoCU-DenverFlocks of Cones III
27 FebG. E. MoorhouseU WyomingIntroduction to Groebner bases
S. E. PayneC U DenverFormal Laurent Series and Lagrange Inversion
10 AprilR. A. WilsonCaltechDecompositions of Edge-Colored Complete Graphs
G. M. McGuireC S UCharacterization of Certain Minimal Rank Designs
24 AprilP FlemingU Wyoming Caps in Finite Classical Polar Spaces
E. vanDamQueens U Kingston, OntAssociation schemes related to Kasami codes and Kerdock sets
8 MayJ MaC S UAbelian Fusion in Coherent Algebras
A SankeySlippery Rock UQuotients of Coherent Configuration


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Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Fall 1997

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sept 12A. E. BrouwerT.U. Eindhoven, NldsModel theory and Generalized Quadrangles
G. McGuireC S UThe code of the Plane of order 5
Sept 26G. E. MoorhouseU Wyoming2-transitive Complex Hadamard Matrices
S. E. PayneC U DenverCharacterizations of q-Clan Quadrangles: q = 2e
Oct 10S. A. HobartU WyomingDirected Strongly Regular Graphs
W. E. CherowitzoC U DenverTowards a general theory of flocks of cones
Nov 7W. E. CherowitzoC U DenverFlocks of cones II
J. M. N. BrownYork U.,CanadaA Remark on a Construction of Grundhöfer
Nov 21G. E. MoorhouseU Wyoming On the Chromatic Number of the Euclidean Plane
R. A. LieblerC S UAntipodal Distance Transitive Covers of Kn
Dec 5S. E. PayneC. U. Denver0-Covers of PG(3,q)
G. McGuireC S UCoding Theory and Klein's Treatment of the Icosahedral Group


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