Table of Contents

1. History
2. Flocks of arbitrary cones
3. Cones having no flocks
4. Linear Flocks
5. Types of Cones and Baselines
6. Coordinates and Normalizations
7. Star Flocks
8. Herd Spaces and Herds
   • More on Herd Spaces
9. Classification of Flocks for q < 7
10. Equivalence of Flocks (Revised)
11. Types of Flocks
    • Star Flocks II
    • Semifield type Flocks
    • Fisher type Flocks
    • FTW type Flocks
    • Kantor-Payne type Flocks
12. A General Classification Scheme for Flocks
13. Construction of Flocks
    • Derivation
14. Automorphism Groups of Herds
15. Known Families of Flocks of Thick Cones
    • Knuth-Kantor Semifield type Flocks (q = p^e, p odd, e > 1)
    • Ganley Semifield type Flocks (q = 3^e, e > 1)
      • Payne-Thas-Johnson-Lunardon-Wilke Derived Flocks
    • Semifield type Flocks of Monomial Cones (q = 2^e, e > 3)
    • Fisher Flocks (q odd, q > 3)
    • Fisher-Thas-Walker Flocks (q = -1 mod 3)
    • Kantor Flocks (K₂, q = ±2 mod 5)
      • Johnson-Payne Derived Flock
    • Payne Flocks (q = 2^e, e odd, e > 1)
      • Payne Derived Flock
    • Kantor Flocks (K₃, q = 5^e)
      • Bader-Lunardon-Thas (BLT) Derived Flock
    • Subiaco Flocks (q = 2^e, e > 3)
    • Penttila Flocks (q = ±1 mod 10)
    • Penttila-Law Flocks (q = 3^e, e > 2)
    • Adelaide Flocks (Cyclic q-clan flocks)
16. Sporadic Examples
    • Gentian Flocks (CAGe)
    • Australian Flocks (Penttila-Royle)
    • Penttila-Williams Semifield type flock (PG(3, 243))
17. Applications
    • Translation Planes
    • Generalized Quadrangles
    • Ovals and Hyperovals

Appendices

1. Background Material I
2. Background Material II
3. Rédei type blocking sets, Star Flocks and Translation Planes (Slides for presentation)