| Fall 1997 | Spring 1998 | Fall 2003 | Spring 2004 |
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| 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 |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 27 | G. E. Moorhouse | U Wyoming | Using the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem |
| W. E. Cherowitzo | UCDHSC | Constructing the Tits Ovoid from an Elliptic Quadric | |
| Feb. 10 | Tim Penttila | U Western Australia, Perth | Applications of Eigenvalue Techniques in Polar Spaces |
| Oscar Vega | U. Iowa | A Polynomial Invariant for Spreads | |
| Feb. 24 | Judy Walker | U Nebraska | Characterizing Pseudocodewords of LDPC Codes |
| Robert A Liebler | CSU | Toward Understanding Iterative Decoding | |
| Mar. 3 | Richard Green | C U Boulder | Some combinatorial representations of affine Kac--Moody algebras |
| Andy Curtis | CSU - Computer Science | Efficient Representation of Chordal Comparability Graphs | |
| Mar. 24 | Petr Vojtechovsky | University of Denver | Exponential Forms and Combinatorial Polarization |
| Richard M. Wilson | Caltech | More on Decompositions of Edge-colored Complete Graphs | |
| Apr. 7 | Abdulla Al-Azemi | CSU | Algorithms For Isomorphism Checking And Generation Of Simple Graphs |
| Stan Payne | UCDHSC | Finite Laguerre Geometries and Generalized Quadrangles |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 16 | Stefaan De Winter | Ghent University, Belgium | Partial Geometries with a Regular Abelian Automorphism Group |
| Richard M Green | C U Boulder | Star reducible Coxeter groups | |
| Sept. 30 | Anton Betten | CSU | How to construct a hyperoval |
| Sylvia Hobart | U Wyoming | Terwilliger Algebras are Applied | |
| Oct. 14 | Alexander Hulpke | CSU | Calculations for verifying the S3 conjecture |
| Chris Frederick | CSU | Ramsey Regions | |
| Oct. 28 | Cheryl E. Praeger | U Western Australia, Perth | Imprimitive group actions on designs |
| Elizabeth Scott-Janda | CSU and Bowling Green U. | Lenz-Barlotti I.4 perspectivity groups are Abelian | |
| Nov. 11 | Bryan Shader | U Wyoming | Spectrally transverse graphs |
| Hirotachi Abo | C S U | Arrangements of 2-planes in projective fourspace formed from the Petersen graph | |
| Dec. 2 | Benson Joeris | CSU | Circular-Arc Graphs |
| Mike Ferrara | UCDHSC | Potentially H-graphic Sequences |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 4 | Margret Jonsdottir | CSU | An algorithm for computing the automorphism group of a finite group |
| Robert A Liebler | CSU | Neodifference sets in quaternionic homomorphic images | |
| Feb. 18 | G. Eric Moorhouse | U Wyoming | Exponential Sums in Finite Geometry |
| Mar. 4 | R. W. Butler | C S U - Stat | Simplifying Mason's rule to determine response functions in large stochastic feedback systems |
| William Cherowitzo | UCDHSC | Some Open Problems concerning Sharply Focused and Hyperfocused Arcs in Desarguesian Planes | |
| Mar. 25 | E. E. Shult | Kansas State Univ. | Locally Truncated Geometries Updated |
| Rieuwert Blok | CSU and Bowling Green U. | Affine Geometries | |
| Apr. 8 | Petr Vojtechovsky | DU | Unit Disk Covering Problems |
| Jeremy Dover | General Dynamics | Spreads of Hermitian Unitals | |
| Apr. 22 | Ilhan Hacioglu | CSU | The integral structure of Hecke algebras for finite generalized polygons |
| S. E. Payne | UCDHSC | Elliptic Quadrics in PG(3,q) | |
| May 6 | Stephen Doty | Loyola Univ. | The deranged algebra |
| Michael S. Jacobson | UCDHSC | Generating the k-element subsets of an n-element set (and other applications of de Bruijn digraphs) |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 17 | Ross M. McConnell | CSU | Combinatorial Problems on Circular-Arc Graphs |
| G. Eric Moorhouse | U Wyo | Embedding Finite Partial Linear Spaces in Finite Planes | |
| Oct. 1 | Colva Roney-Dougal | University of St Andrews, UK | Constructing maximal subgroups of classical groups |
| Hirotachi Abo | CSU | Paley Graphs and Rational Points of Varieties | |
| Oct. 15 | Rieuwert Blok | C S U | Generating sets for symplectic geometries |
| Stan Payne | CU-Denver | Generalized Fans, Spreads of T2(O) and Alpha-Flocks | |
| Nov. 5 | Richard Green | CU-Boulder | Acyclic heaps of pieces |
| William Cherowitzo | CU-Denver | Hölz Designs | |
| Nov. 19 | Petr Vojtechovsky | DU | Extensions based on Steiner triple systems |
| Robert Rostermundt | CU-Denver | Conditions for the Existence of 4-Gonal Families in an Elation Group of H(3,q2) | |
| Dec. 3 | Rieuwert Blok | CSU | Partial Orders on Coxeter groups |
| Anton Betten | CSU | Geometric Codes |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 5 | Jianmin Ma | CSU | Iterative decoding of low density parity-codes |
| Sylvia Hobart | U Wyo | Quasi-symmetric designs related to the triangular graph | |
| Feb. 20 | Ross M. McConnell | CSU | DATA STRUCTURES FOR SEARCHING IN TEXTS |
| Stan Payne | CU-Denver | CONDITIONS FOR SINGULAR INCIDENCE MATRICES | |
| Mar. 5 | Jon Lark Kim | U. Nebraska | LDPC codes from nets, generalized quadrangles, and partial geometries |
| Anton Betten | C S U | Computing Optimal Linear Codes | |
| Mar. 26 | Nicholas Krier | C S U | Two Games on Graphs |
| William Cherowitzo | CU-Denver | Embedding 1-factorizations of complete graphs in PG(2,q) | |
| Apr 9 | Petr Vojtechovsky | DU | Wreath products, dynamical systems and the interplay between associativity and commutativity |
| G. Eric Moorhouse | UWyo | Deflation in Affine Coxeter Groups | |
| Apr 23 | Alexander Hulpke | CSU | Factorization into Generators |
| Tom Edgar | CSU | Linear codes and Finite Geometries | |
| May 7 | Reception Honoring Retiring Math Faculty | ||
| Sergey Kitaev | U Kentucky | Combinatorics on words and graphs |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 5 | Jianmin Ma | CSU | Some new 3 class association schemes |
| Richard Green | CU-Boulder | Freely braided elements in Coxeter groups | |
| Sept 19 | Peter Brooksbank | Ohio State U | Efficient computation with matrix groups |
| Tim Penttila | U Western Australia (Perth) | Symplectic spreads | |
| Oct 17 | Ross McConnell | CSU | Common factors in a set of linear orders |
| Tim Penttila | U Western Australia (Perth) | Flocks and partial flocks of hyperbolic quadrics via root systems | |
| Oct 31 | Stan Payne | U Colorado Denver | 2-Ranks of Some Perfect Difference Sets Derived from Monomial Hyperovals |
| G Eric Moorhouse | U Wyoming | Ranks of Nets and Webs | |
| Nov 14 | R. A. Liebler | C S U | Counting irreducible semilinear transformations -- in context |
| Richard Green | C U Boulder | Schubert varieties and free braidedness | |
| Dec. 5 | Petr Vojtechovsky | DU | Some Combinatorial Problems in Communication |
| Bill Cherowitzo | CU-Denver | The Automorphism Group of My Favorite Hyperoval |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31 | G. Eric Moorhouse | U Wyo | The Hidden Subgroup Problem |
| Ross McConnell | CSU | THE CONSECUTIVE-ONES PROPERTY | |
| Feb 14 | K. W. Smith | Central Michigan U | Difference Sets, Relative Difference Sets and GAP |
| A. Cushman | Air Force Academy | A Search for an Abelian, Non-Cyclic Difference Sets | |
| Feb 28 | Rieuwert J. Blok | Michigan State U | Topological aspects of active orders on matroid bases |
| Jianmin Ma | C S U | Commutative fusion schemes of noncommutative association schemes | |
| Mar 21 | Alexander Hulpke | CSU | Algorithms to find subgroups |
| William Cherowitzo | CU-Denver | Rédei blocking sets with two Rédei lines and quasigroups | |
| Apr 4 | David C. Torney | Los Alamos National Lab | Isomorphism Classes of Constructed Designs |
| Harm Pralle | T U Braunschweig | Quest for hyperplanes of dual polar spaces | |
| Apr 18 | Petr Vojtechovsky | DU | Combinatorial polarization and codes of high level |
| Bill Cherowitzo | CU-Denver | Should I Reference My Computer? | |
| May 9 | Sylvia Hobart | UWyo | A weighted version of interlacing |
| Carey Jenkins | CU-Denver | New Flocks of the Cone over the Segre Oval |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 6 | G. Eric Moorhouse | U Wyo | Paige's simple Moufang loops |
| Bettina Eick | TU Braunschweig | Computing coclass-trees with GAP | |
| Sept 27 | Anton Betten | C S U | Searching for line-transitive linear spaces preserving a grid structure on points |
| Ilaria Cardinali | U Naples (Italy) | A characterization of regular spreads of PG(3,q) which induce Hermitian spreads of Q-(5,q) | |
| Oct 11 | Ross M. McConnell | C S U | Certifying Algorithms |
| Petr Vojtechovsky | Denver U | Distances of Groups and Loops | |
| Oct 25 | Stan Payne | CU Denver | The Ghinelli--Löwe Construction of Generalized Quadrangles |
| Ken Driessel | CSU | The importance of Toeplitz matrices | |
| Nov 8 | Peter Dukes | Arizona State U | Some inequalities on t-designs from the cone condition |
| Sylvia Hobart | U Wyoming | Automorphism Groups, Eigenvectors and Matrix Algebras of Graphs | |
| Nov 22 | Michael Kinyon | Indiana Univ. South Bend | Quasigroups, Loops, and Automated Reasoning |
| Eric Moorhouse | U Wyo | Multiple Factorizations in Group Rings and Loop Rings | |
| Dec 6 | Anton Betten | CSU | Coding theory and the geometry connection |
| Bill Cherowitzo | CU-Denver | Flocks of Cones: Star Flocks |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18 | Akos Serres | Ohio State U | Large families of cospectral graphs |
| Stan Payne | C U Denver | A new look at q-clan geometries, q = 2e | |
| Feb 1 | |||
| S. A Hobart | U Wyo | Weakly Distance-Regular Digraphs | |
| Problem Session | |||
| Feb 14 | CANCELLED | ||
| Mar 1 | CANCELLED | ||
| Mar 22 | Jason Bandlow | C S U | A variety of combinatorial interpretations of the q-Catalan polynomial |
| Kendra Killpatrick | C S U | A t-statistic for the Schroder polynomials | |
| Apr 5 | Bill Cherowitzo | CU Denver | So what is cyclic about a cyclic q-clan? |
| Stefaan D Delcroix | U Wyo | Solvable linear groups: a generalization of Mal'cev's Theorem | |
| Apr 19 | İlhan Hacioglu | C S U | Diagram Geometries of Type B3 |
| Bob Liebler | C S U | L4(2) = A8 directly and some related combinatorial structures | |
| Apr 19 | Alexander Hulpke | C S U | Determining the Galois group of a rational polynomial |
| Brian Shader | U Wyo | A solution to the weak road coloring conjecture | |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 7 | R. A. Liebler | CSU | What is a Turbo Code? Why are they so GOOD? |
| W. E. Cherowitzo | C U Denver | Flocks of Cones: Herds and Herd Spaces | |
| Sept 21 | A. Hulpke | CSU | Constructing transitive permutation groups of fixed degree |
| S. A Hobart | U Wyo | New Prolific Constructions of Strongly Regular Graphs of Fon-der-Flass | |
| Oct 12 | Chanyoung Lee Shader | U Wyo | Typical Representations of Lie superalgebras |
| Stan Payne | C U Denver | Recent results of K. Thas on Translation Generalized Quadrangles | |
| Oct 26 | Kendra Killpatrick | C S U | Connections between lattice paths and q,t statistics |
| Robert A. Liebler | C S U | NonAbelian Fast Fourier Transforms: Marketing Combinatorial Representation Theory | |
| Nov 9 | Mark van Hoeij | Florida State Univeristy | Factoring polynomials by computing 0-1-vectors with lattice reduction |
| Ann Cushman | U Southern Colorado | Combinatorial Factorizations | |
| Nov 30 | Richard Green | Lancaster Univ. (UK) | Tabular Algebras |
| Stefan Delcroix | U Wyo | Simple Groups that are not absolutely simple |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9 | R. A. Liebler | CSU | The p rank of the Hermitian Unital |
| S.E. Payne | C U Denver | Elation Generalized Quadrangles | |
| Feb 23 | G. E. Moorhouse | U Wyo | The LLL Algorithm for Lattices |
| W.E. Cherowitzo | C U Denver | Ovoids of PG(3,q), q even, with a conic section | |
| Mar 16 | N. K. Krier | C S U | Some recent advances in combinatorial game theory - what I did on my Summer Vacation. |
| Anton Betten | U Bayreuth, Germany | Plesken Rings and intersection numbers of Designs | |
| Apr 6 | S. A. Hobart | U Wyo | Equitable Partitions and Designs in Association Schemes |
| Eric Egge | Gettysburg College | Restricted Permutations, sorting and a remarkable continued fraction | |
| Apr 20 | Robert Calderbank | A T & T Laboratories | TAILBITING REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BINARY GOLAY CODE |
| Kendra Kilpatrick | C S U | A GENERALIZATION OF THE CATALAN POLYNOMIALS TO SCHROEDER POLYNOMIALS | |
| May 4 | S. E. Payne | C U Denver | The Generalized Factorial Function of Manjul Bhargava |
| Ilhan Haciglu | C S U | The Uniqueness of the Gewirtz Graph |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 8 | B. Shader | U. Wyoming | Integer solutions to systems of linear equations and 2-exponents of colored digraphs |
| W.E. Cherowitzo | C U Denver | The Magic Action and Groups of the Adelaide Herds | |
| Sept 22 | R. A. Liebler | CSU | The arithmetic invariants of point incidence maps in finite projective spaces I |
| S. A. Hobart | U Wyo | Representations of directed strongly regular graphs | |
| Oct 6 | Gary Ebert | U Delaware | Hyperbolic Fibrations and q-Clans |
| S.E. Payne | C U Denver | Flock Generalized Quadrangles and Related Structures: An Update | |
| Oct 20 | K. Killpatrick | C S U | Two-parameter polynomials: (q,t)-statistics for the two parameter Kostka polynomials and Catalan polynomials |
| S. Delcroix | U Wyo | Locally Finite Simple Groups of Alternating Type | |
| Nov 3 | Chanyoung Lee Shader | U Wyo | Representations of Symplectic Lie algebras and Combinatorics |
| Mark Shimozono | Virginia Tech | Towards a combinatorial formula for Lusztig's q-analogue of weight multiplicity. | |
| Nov 17 | E. Moorhouse | U Wyo | The Smallest Known Projective Planes |
| W. Cherowitzo | C U Denver | Rédei-type Blocking Sets, Star Flocks and Translation Planes | |
| Dec 1 | Alex Hulpke | Ohio State U & CSU | Lifting finite quotients of a finitely presented group |
| R. Liebler | CSU | The arithmetic invariants of the incidence relations between points and k-flats in PGn(q) II |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28 | D. Glynn | U Canterbury (NZ) | Quantum Computing, Codes and Related Topics |
| S. A. Hobart | U Wyo | New results on DSRGs | |
| Feb 18 | R. Liebler | C S U | Representing a Finite Geometry using its Hecke algebra |
| W. Martin | U.Winnipeg | $\lambda$-transitive permutation group and sets of permutations | |
| Mar 3 | G. E. Moorhouse | U Wyoming | Quasigroup Algebras and p-Ranks of Nets |
| P. Sin | U. Florida | The elementary divisors of the incidence matrices of points and linear spaces in PG(n,p) | |
| Mar 24 | K. Smith | U. Central Michigan | Search Algorthms for Difference Sets |
| S. Sane | U. Mumbai Vidyanagari, India | Combination Locks, Orthogonal Arrays and Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares | |
| Apr 7 | CANCELLED for MAA Meeting | ||
| Apr 21 | N. Krier | C S U | Penny Ante |
| S. E. Payne | CU-Denver | Spreads of the Generalized Quadrangle T2(O) and Generalized Fans | |
| May 5 | A. Terras | U. C. San Diego | Selberg's Trace Formula and its Discrete Analogues |
| L. Holder | CU-Denver | Conic Blocking Sets in Even Characteristic | |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 3 | S. Rees | U Newcastle (UK) | Computing topological invariants of finite combinatorial complexes |
| M. Law | UWA (Perth) | Some flocks in characteristic 3 | |
| Sept 17 | K. Killpatrick | C S U | Kostka Polynomials, the Charge Statistic, and the Meaning of Life |
| T. Penttila | UWA (Perth) | Flocks in Characteristic 2 | |
| Oct 1 | G. E. Moorhouse | U Wyoming | Cocliques in the E6(q) collinearity graph |
| S. E. Payne | C U Denver | The Law-Penttila 3h-clan geometries | |
| Oct 15 | K. Killpatrick | C S U | The Robinson-Schensted Correspondence and Littlewood-Richardson Coefficients |
| C. L. Shader | U Wyoming | General Linear Lie superalgebra $gl(m,n)$ and its representations | |
| Oct 29 | S. A. Hobart | U Wyoming | Flag Algebras and Directed Strongly Regular Graphs |
| W. E. Cherowitzo | C U Denver | Hyperovals: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. | |
| Nov 12 | K. Killpatrick | C S U | The story continues: More About Domino Schensted and the q-Littlewood Richardson Coefficients |
| J. S. Caughman IV | MSU (E. Lansing) | The Last Subconstituent of a Bipartite Distance-Regular Graph | |
| Dec 3 | A. Hulpke | C S U | Computing maximal subgroups of a permutation group |
| Y. Wang | MSU (E. Lansing) | The association schemes based on quadratic forms and symmetric bilinear forms II |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5 | R. Liebler | C S U | The elementary divisors of the point-hyperplane incidence matrix of PG(n-1,q) |
| S. E. Payne | C U Denver | How to Construct a Generalized Quadrangle $GQ(q^2,q)$ from a Flock of a Quadratic Cone | |
| Feb 19 | N. Thiery | Lyon, France | Algebraic approach to graph reconstruction |
| M. Ong | Cheyene, WY | Difference sets with Frobenius homomorphic images | |
| Mar 5 | C. Praeger | UWA (Perth) | Quasiprimitive permutation groups and their actions on graphs and linear spaces |
| G. E. Moorhouse | U Wyoming | Codes Spanned by Subspaces of Codimension 2 in $PG(n,q)$ | |
| Mar 19 | S. A. Hobart | U Wyoming | Interlacing, Eigenvalues, and Graph Diameter |
| S. E. Payne | CU Denver | GQs with property (G) | |
| Apr 2 | K. Smith | CMU (Mt. Pleasant) | New infinite families of symmetric designs |
| J. Ma | C S U | The duality and primitivity of the association scheme of quadratic forms | |
| Apr 16 | W. E. Cherowitzo | CU Denver | On the classification of monomial hyperovals |
| L. Holder | CU Denver | Conic blocking sets | |
| Apr 30 | B. DeBruijn | U Gent | Generalized quadrangles with a spread of symmetry |
| R. Liebler | C S U | Searching for nonsolvable difference sets |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 12 | G. E. Moorhouse | U Wyoming | The p-rank of the Generalized Quadrangle W(p) |
| S. E. Payne | C U Denver | On Penttila's new BLT constructions | |
| Oct 2 | D. deCaen | Queens U. Ont. | Nonregular graphs with three eigenvalues |
| R. A.Liebler | C S U | The transfer matrix method | |
| Oct 16 | Cristina Ballantine | U Wyoming | Ramanujan type buildings |
| W. E. Cherowitzo | C U Denver | Star flocks -flocks of cones IV | |
| Oct 30 | S. A. Hobart | U Wyoming | What's the difference between P and Q polynomial |
| N. K. Krier | C S U | Go for mathematicians | |
| Nov 13 | Cristina Ballantine | U Wyoming | Affine Buildings |
| S. E. Payne | C U Denver | Property (G) in GQ(s2, s) | |
| Dec 4 | A. Cushman | C S U | Cyclotomic association schemes: P mod Pi |
| Q. Xiang | U Delaware | Recent results on difference sets |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jan | N. K. Krier | C S U | About A = B |
| A. Cushman | C S U | Hyperovals and cyclic difference sets | |
| 13 Feb | M. A. Miller | CU-Denver | A Characterization of Certain GQ of Order (q+1, q-1), q = 2e |
| W.E. Cherowitzo | CU-Denver | Flocks of Cones III | |
| 27 Feb | G. E. Moorhouse | U Wyoming | Introduction to Groebner bases |
| S. E. Payne | C U Denver | Formal Laurent Series and Lagrange Inversion | |
| 10 April | R. A. Wilson | Caltech | Decompositions of Edge-Colored Complete Graphs |
| G. M. McGuire | C S U | Characterization of Certain Minimal Rank Designs | |
| 24 April | P Fleming | U Wyoming | Caps in Finite Classical Polar Spaces |
| E. vanDam | Queens U Kingston, Ont | Association schemes related to Kasami codes and Kerdock sets | |
| 8 May | J Ma | C S U | Abelian Fusion in Coherent Algebras |
| A Sankey | Slippery Rock U | Quotients of Coherent Configuration |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 12 | A. E. Brouwer | T.U. Eindhoven, Nlds | Model theory and Generalized Quadrangles |
| G. McGuire | C S U | The code of the Plane of order 5 | |
| Sept 26 | G. E. Moorhouse | U Wyoming | 2-transitive Complex Hadamard Matrices |
| S. E. Payne | C U Denver | Characterizations of q-Clan Quadrangles: q = 2e | |
| Oct 10 | S. A. Hobart | U Wyoming | Directed Strongly Regular Graphs |
| W. E. Cherowitzo | C U Denver | Towards a general theory of flocks of cones | |
| Nov 7 | W. E. Cherowitzo | C U Denver | Flocks of cones II |
| J. M. N. Brown | York U.,Canada | A Remark on a Construction of Grundhöfer | |
| Nov 21 | G. E. Moorhouse | U Wyoming | On the Chromatic Number of the Euclidean Plane |
| R. A. Liebler | C S U | Antipodal Distance Transitive Covers of Kn | |
| Dec 5 | S. E. Payne | C. U. Denver | 0-Covers of PG(3,q) |
| G. McGuire | C S U | Coding Theory and Klein's Treatment of the Icosahedral Group |