GEOMETRIC AND ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS 5

Oisterwijk, The Netherlands

Sunday August 14 - Friday August 19, 2011


The conference Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics 5 was held at the Hotel Conferentiecentrum Boschoord. Local organizers were Edwin van Dam and Willem Haemers. Email related to the conference should be sent to gac@uvt.nl.


Conference information

  • There will be a special issue of Designs Codes and Cryptography devoted to the subject of the conference. Papers for the special issue must be submitted at Desi's editorial system (as article type choose “SI: GAC 2011 - by invitation only”) and will be refereed according to the standard procedure of the journal. The deadline for submission is the first day of the conference.
  • Scientific committee: Aart Blokhuis, Edwin van Dam, Willem Haemers.
  • Invited speakers:
    • Simeon Ball (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Some applications of linear algebra over finite fields,
    • Hans Cuypers (Eindhoven University of Technology) Lie algebras, 3-transpositions and embeddings of geometries,
    • Dieter Jungnickel (Augsburg University) Characterizations and codes of classical designs,
    • Jack Koolen (Pohang University of Science and Technology) On graphs with smallest eigenvalue at least -3,
    • Tim Penttila (Colorado State University) Planes in which every quadrangle lies on a unique Baer subplane.
  • First announcement
  • Second announcement
  • Third announcement
  • Registered participants and titles of talks (updated July 28, 2011)
  • Book of abstracts (updated August 9, 2011)
  • Photos (Updated August 23, 2011)
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