Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:54:12

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Friday - Monday)
Meeting #1023

• Friday January 5, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Coding Theory and Its Applications, I
  Organizers:
  Roxana N. Smarandache, University of Notre Dame and San Diego State University rsmarand@nd.edu
  Pascal O. Vontobel, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories pascal.vontobel@ieee.org
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Pseudocodeword weights of codes from expander graphs.
    Christine A Kelley*, The Fields Institute
    (1023-94-1500)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    LDPC Convolutional Codes: What Are They? How Do They Work? Are They Any Good?
    Daniel J. Costello*, Univ. of Notre Dame
    Ali Emre Pusane, Univ. of Notre Dame
    (1023-94-1236)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Towards explaining decoding errors for LDPC codes.
    Lance C. P\'{e}rez, University of Nebraska
    Judy L. Walker*, University of Nebraska
    (1023-94-1554)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A code decomposition theory.
    Navin Kashyap*, Queen's University
    (1023-68-446)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Minimum Achievable Decoding Delay of Maximum Rate Complex Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes.
    Sarah Spence Adams*, Olin College of Engineering
    (1023-94-218)
• Friday January 5, 2007, 2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Coding Theory and Its Applications, II
  Organizers:
  Roxana N. Smarandache, University of Notre Dame and San Diego State University rsmarand@nd.edu
  Pascal O. Vontobel, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories pascal.vontobel@ieee.org
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Skew Hadamard Designs and Their Codes.
    Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
    (1023-94-1037)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Rediscovering Our Roots: Coding Theory and Reed-Solomon Codes.
    Henry D Pfister*, Texas A&M University
    (1023-94-1868)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Algebraic Soft Decision Decoding of Reed Solomon Codes using Bit-level Soft Information.
    Jing Jiang, Texas A&M University
    Krishna R Narayanan*, Texas A&M University
    (1023-94-1886)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:45 p.m.
    On the generalized reversal distance.
    Olgica Milenkovic*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1023-05-1849)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    String Reconstruction: Putting right what once went wrong.
    Sampath Kannan, University of Pennsylvania
    Andrew McGregor*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1023-60-1375)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Discussion.