Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:26

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Baltimore, MD, January 15-18, 2003
Meeting #983

• Wednesday January 15, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Spherical Designs and Codes, I
  Organizers:
  B\'ela Bajnok, Gettysburg College bbajnok@gettysburg.edu
  Neil J. A. Sloane, AT\&T Shannon Labs njas@research.att.com
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Using additive number theory to construct spherical designs.
    B\'{e}la Bajnok*, Gettysburg College
    (983-05-832)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Nonexistence of Certain Tight Spherical Designs.
    Eiichi Bannai*, Graduate School of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
    Akihiro Munemasa, Kyushu University
    Boris Venkov, Russian Academy of Sciences
    (983-05-698)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nonexistence results for some spherical designs.
    Danyo Petrov Danev, Link\"oping University, Sweden
    Peter Georgiev Boyvalenkov*, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria
    Silvia Boumova, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria
    (983-51-1090)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Recent results on the existence of spherical $3$-designs.
    Danyo Petrov Danev*, Link\"oping University, Sweden
    Peter Georgiev Boyvalenkov, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria
    Silvia Boumova, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria
    (983-51-1088)
• Wednesday January 15, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Spherical Designs and Codes, II
  Organizers:
  B\'ela Bajnok, Gettysburg College bbajnok@gettysburg.edu
  Neil J. A. Sloane, AT\&T Shannon Labs njas@research.att.com
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    New Spherical Designs in Four and Five Dimensions.
    R. H. Hardin, Pataskala, Ohio
    N.J.A. Sloane*, AT&T Shannon Labs
    (983-52-920)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Non-Unique Optimal Spherical Codes of Dimension Three.
    James R Buddenhagen*, retired
    (983-52-870)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Spherical Designs via Extremal Sytems.
    Ian H Sloan*, University of New South Wales
    (983-41-572)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Nested polytopes for the construction of spherical designs.
    David Colton Torney*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (983-52-100)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Hilbert identities and spherical designs.
    Bruce Reznick*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (983-05-1220)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Spherical Crystallography: The Thomson Problem Revisited.
    David R. Nelson*, Lyman Laboratory, Harvard University
    (983-82-1120)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Defect Scars in Spherical Crystals.
    Mark J Bowick*, Syracuse University
    (983-82-960)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Dynamical Systems, Curves and Error Control for Continuous Alphabet Sources.
    Vinay A Vaishampayan*, AT&T Shannon Laboratory
    N. J. A. Sloane, AT&T Shannon Laboratory
    Sueli I. R. Costa, Instituto de Matematica
    (983-94-1018)
• Thursday January 16, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Spherical Designs and Codes, III
  Organizers:
  B\'ela Bajnok, Gettysburg College bbajnok@gettysburg.edu
  Neil J. A. Sloane, AT\&T Shannon Labs njas@research.att.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Spherical codes: bounds and constructions.
    Thomas Ericson*, Link\"oping University, Sweden
    (983-51-946)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On $s$-distance sets on $p$ concentric spheres in Euclidean space.
    Etsuko Bannai*, Graduate School of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
    (983-05-707)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimal Riesz Energy Points on $d$-Manifolds.
    D. Hardin, Vanderbilt University
    E. B. Saff*, Vanderbilt University
    (983-52-1309)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Almost orthogonal vectors.
    William J. Martin*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (983-51-1397)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Packings of directions with minimal variance of projection.
    Ji\v r\'{\i} Jan\'a\v cek*, Institute of Physiology ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic
    (983-51-948)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Encoding plane triangulations and fullerenes.
    Jack E Graver*, Syracuse University
    (983-05-619)
• Thursday January 16, 2003, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Spherical Designs and Codes, IV
  Organizers:
  B\'ela Bajnok, Gettysburg College bbajnok@gettysburg.edu
  Neil J. A. Sloane, AT\&T Shannon Labs njas@research.att.com
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Covers of complete graphs and equi-isoclinic subspaces.
    Chris D. Godsil*, University of Waterloo
    (983-05-998)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Grassmannian Designs.
    Christine Bachoc*, Universite de Bordeaux
    (983-05-695)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Algorithms for distributing points on a sphere and plane.
    Chjan C Lim*, Math Sciences, RPI
    S M Assad, National U. of Singapore
    Joseph Nebus, RPI
    (983-94-888)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Note on Group Codes and their Links with Association Schemes.
    Michele Elia*, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
    (983-05-664)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the number of linear independent binary vectors with applications to the construction of linear codes and orthogonal arrays.
    Steven B Damelin*, Georgia Southern University
    Greg Michalski, Georgia Southern University
    Gary Mullen, Penn State University
    David Stone, Georgia Southern University
    (983-15-165)