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Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Department of Mathematics
CRYPTOLOGY, DESIGNS AND FINITE GROUPS 2009
In Honor of Spyros Magliveras' 70th Birthday, May 17-22, 2009, Deerfield Beach, Florida
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Program
 
   
Monday, May 18
 
9:00- 9:10
Welcome  
9:10- 9:40
Reinhard Laue:
Error Correction for Codes from Designs by Groups
 
9:50-10:20

Angelo Sonnino* and Luca Giuzzi:
LDPC codes arising from Singer cycles of projective spaces

 
-- coffee break --
   
11:00-11:30 Alfred Wassermann:
On two-weight codes over rings
 
11:40-12:10

Ivana Ilic* and Spyros Magliveras:
Generalized discrete logarithm problem in finite
non-abelian groups

 
-- lunch break --
(on your own)  
2:00- 2:30 Tran van Trung* and Pavol Svaba:
On the realization of the public key cryptosystem MST3
 
2:40- 3:10 María Isabel González Vasco, Angel Luis Peréz del Pozo and Pedro Taborda Duarte*:
A note on the security of MST3
 
-- coffee break --
   
3:30- 4:00 Nidhi Singhi*, Nikhil Singhi and Spyros Magliveras:
Logarithmic signatures of finite groups of Lie type and spreads in a polar space
 
4:10- 4:40 Nidhi Singhi, Nikhil Singhi* and Spyros Magliveras:
On the Minimal Logarithmic Signature conjecture for finite classical groups
 
6:00-7:00 p.m. Informal welcome reception  
   
Tuesday, May 19
 
9:15-10:15
Douglas R. Stinson:
Practical Unconditionally Secure Two-channel Message Authentication
 
-- coffee break --
Conference photo
 
11:00-11:30
Xukai Zou:
Sharing of Multiple Secrets with Weighted Shares
 
11:40-12:10
Kenneth Matheis:
Using MRHS to Attack Block Ciphers
 
-- lunch break --
(on your own)
 
2:00- 2:30 Curt Lindner:
Can Grid Systems be Equationally Defined?
 
2:40- 3:10 Navin Singhi* and D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri:
Tags on Lists and Steiner Systems
 
3:20- 3:50 Donald L. Kreher:
Bivalent Partial Steiner Triple Systems
 
-- coffee break --    
4:15- 5:15 Daniel R. Hughes:
"A little light history"
 
7:00- 9:00 p.m. Conference dinner  
     
   
Wednesday, May 20
 
9:15-10:15

Gábor Korchmáros:
Groups and algebraic curves over a finite field

 
-- coffee break --
 
11:00-11:30 Wandi Wei:
On Nonadjacent Digit Sets
 
11:40-12:10 Thane Plambeck:
Advances in Losing
 
-- lunch break -- (on your own)  
2:00- 2:30 Marién Abreu* , Domenico Labbate and John Sheehan:
Irreducible pseudo 2-factor isomorphic cubic bipartite
graphs
 
2:40- 3:10 Marién Abreu, Domenico Labbate* and John Sheehan:
Strongly Pseudo 2-factor Isomorphic Regular Graphs and Snarks
 
-- coffee break --
   
3:40- 4:10 Guglielmo Lunardon*, G. Marino, O. Polverino and R. Trombetti:
Symplectic Spreads and Quadric Veronesean
 
4:20- 4:50

Dieter Jungnickel, Vladimir Tonchev*:
Polarities, Quasi-symmetric Designs, and Hamada's Conjecture

 
     
   
Thursday, May 21
 
9:15- 9:45

Ronald Mullin*, J. Yucas, G. Mullen:
A Framework for Factoring and Counting certain Polynomials over Finite Fields

 
9:55-10:25
 
-- coffee break --    
10:45-11:15
Cafer Caliskan:
Reconstructing a VW plane from its Collineation Group
 
11:25-11:55
Daniela Nikolova-Popova:
Finite or Infinite? - That is the question
 
     
     
Friday, May 22
 
 
Excursion
 
     
if more than one author is listed, * denotes the speaker  
     
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