MINIATURE PORTRAIT GALLERY OF SPEAKERS
by Kathy Wilson
All portraits were sketched during the lectures presentedat the Symposium in Honor of Jack van Lint
October 3–October5, 2005
Monday, October 3, 2005
A. Barg: A bound on Grassmannian codes
V. Blinovsky: Maximal set of natural numbers without coprimes with given set of divisors
P. Camion: Partition algebras
S. Dodunekov: From perfect to quasi-perfect codes
I. Dumer: Covering an ellipsoid with equal balls
I. Duursma: A class of dual BCH codes
E. Aarts: Opening industrial session
T. Ericson: On Fourier-invariant partitions
M. Hassner: Algebraic geometric modulation codes
T. Helleseth: On coset distribution of BCH codes
H. Hollmann: Proof of a generalized Donoho-Stark uncertainty principle by shifting
Ying Miao: Further combinatorial constructions for optimal frequency-hopping sequences
Vera Pless: LDPC Codes with girth greater than 4
B. Shen: Construct LDPC code using algebraic block codes
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
E. van Dam: Cospectral graphs of distance regular graphs, and new distance-regular graphs
P. van Emde Boas: Games, computation and complexity
M. Greferath: The linear programming bound for codes over finite Frobenius rings
S. Harari: One time pad, now and then
F. De Clerck: A new characterization of projections of quadrics in finite projective spaces of even characteristic
M. Jimbo: 2-Designs with non-primepower block size derived from affine geometry
G. Kabatiansky: Codes with i.p. property and secret sharing schemes
F. van der Blij: Sums of squares, a subject from Jack's thesis
I. Landjev: Caps in projective Hjelmslev spaces over finite chain rings
V. Levenshtein: Conflict-avoiding codes and cyclic triple systems
S. Litsyn: Asymptotic bounds for non-binary codes
P. Ostergard: The Steiner quadruple systems of order 16
Ph. Piret: Aggregate error locator and error value computation in AG codes
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
K. Ranto: 3-designs from all Z4-Goethals-like codes with block size 7 and 8
Cornelia Rößing: LDPC-Codes derived from inversive planes
Alexander Schrijver: New code bounds from the Terwilliger algebra
L. Tolhuizen: Special generator matrices for MDS codes, and a generalisation of Hall's marriage theorem
Rick Wilson: An Ax-Katz-type theorem for congruences modulo powers of a prime
Qing Xiang: Symmetric Bush-type Hadamard matrices of order 4m4 exist for all odd m
A. Bruen: Shannon's coding theorems, perfect secrecy and quantum information