Combinatorics 2008

International conference on pure and applied combinatorics
and its connections with Geometry, Graph Theory and Algebra

Costermano (VR), Sunday 22 June to Saturday 28 June 2008

List of main talks

  1. Rosemary A. Bailey (London University, UK):
    Graphs from block designs: concurrence, distance, variance and electrical resistance
  2. Marco Buratti (Università di Perugia, Italy):
    An overview on combinatorial designs with a regular automorphism group
  3. Frank De Clerck (Ghent University, Belgium):
    Combinatorial characterisations of some incidence structures embedded in a projective or affine space
  4. András Gács (Eötvös University, Hungary):
    Polynomials for higher dimensional problems
  5. Hans Havlicek (Technische Universität Wien, Austria):
    Preserver Problems in Geometry
  6. William M. Kantor (University of Oregon, USA):
    How many translation planes? How many symplectic translation planes?
  7. Jennifer D. Key (Clemson University, USA):
    Permutation decoding for codes  from designs and graphs
  8. László Lovász (Eötvös University, Hungary):
    Which graphs are extremal?
  9. Spyros Magliveras (Florida Atlantic University, USA):
    Large sets of t-designs from groups
  10. Udo Ott (Braunschweig University, Germany):
    Cyclotomy and Generalized Difference Sets
  11. Olga Polverino (Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy):
    Linear sets in Finite Projective Spaces
  12. Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia, Australia):
    Neighbour-transitive designs in Johnson graphs
  13. Chris Rodger (Auburn University, USA):
    Cycle decompositions - small and large
  14. Alexander Rosa (McMaster University, Canada):
    Three 'easy' problems...with no solution in sight ... or `Is there a cure for combinatorial diseases?'
  15. Leo Storme (Ghent University, Belgium):
    Small weight codewords in the linear codes arising from finite incidence structures
  16. Anne Street (University of Queensland, Australia):
    Combinatorics: the first 4000 years
  17. Vitaly Voloshin (Troy University, USA):
    Coloring theory: history, results and open problems
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