Friday, October 21

Friday, October 21

204 Burnett Hall

1:45-2:30pm	Mathematical Topics in Coding Theory,
	Vera Pless*
2:45-3:30pm	Communication Channel Models and Their Implications for Error Control,
	Thomas E Fuja*

Saturday, October 22

(Morning Session)

120 Burnett Hall

9:00-9:20am	Nested Interpolation for Reduced Complexity Soft Decoding of Reed Solomon Codes,
	Ralf Koetter*
9:30-9:50am	Multivariate Interpolation Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes And Decoding Beyond the Guruswami-Sudan Radius,
	Farzad Parvaresh* and Alexander Vardy
10:00-10:20am	On Linear Programming Bounds for Codes,
	Alexander Barg*
10:30-10:50am	An Explicit Construction of Universally Decodable Matrices,
	Pascal O Vontobel* and Ashwin Ganesan
11:00-11:20am	Sequences in Chemistry and Physics,
	Jonathan I. Hall*

Saturday, October 22

(Afternoon Session)

120 Burnett Hall

3:00-3:20pm	Discussion,
	Christian Schlegel*
3:30-3:50pm	Graph-Theoretic Constructions of LDPC Codes,
	Matt Koetz*
4:00-4:20pm	Minimal Pseudo-codewords of Codes from Finite Geometries,
	Roxana Smarandache* and Pascal O. Vontobel
4:30-4:50pm	Pseudo-codewords of LDPC Codes,
	Ralf Koetter, Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Pascal O. Vontobel and Judy L. Walker; speaker: Min Lu

Sunday, October 23

120 Burnett Hall

9:00-9:20am	Duality Theory for Space-Time Codes over Finite Fields,
	David Grant* and Mahesh K Varanasi
9:30-9:50am	McEliece Theorems for Cyclic Codes over Galois Rings,
	Daniel J. Katz*
10:00-10:20am	s-Extremal Additive GF(4) Codes,
	Jon-Lark Kim* and Judy L. Walker
10:30-10:50am	Self-Dual Codes over Z₈ and Z₉,
	Steven Dougherty and Aaron Gulliver*
11:00-11:20am	Invariant-based Face Recognition,
	Nigel Boston*

Invited Address

115 Burnett Hall

11:40am-12:30pm	LDPC Codes and Their Pseudocodewords,
	Judy L. Walker