Program

MONDAY 16/ 06/ 2008 

Time Interval

8:30-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:50 Welcome and Opening
9:50-10:40 ANNE STREETAn introduction to balanced sequential arrays on the square grid
10:4011:10 Coffee Break
11:10-11:30 Honorary talk by Hung-Lin Fu,Grid block designs and their applications
11:35-11:55 M. Walsh, Hamiltonicity and restricted block-intersection graphs of t-designs
12:00-12:20 G. B. Khosrovshahi, Reminiscences of the spectrum of support sices of triple systems
12:20-14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30-15:20 CHRIS RODGER, Embeddings – Curt’s favourites!
15:25-15:45 D. Donovan, Quarter regular biembeddings of latin squares
15:50-16:10 J. Lefevre, A constraint on the biembedding of latin squares
16:10-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-16:50 E. S. Mahmoodian,

K-homogenous latin trades

16:55-17:15 M. Waterhouse, Defining sets of the full design with block size three
17:20-17:40 F. D’Alessandro, The synchronization problem for strongly transitive automata
17:45-18:05 B. Tayfeh-Rezai, On the energy of (0,1)-matrices
19:30 WELCOME RECEPTION (At Koc University Swimming Pool)

 

TUESDAY 17/06/2008

Time Interval

9:30-10:20 ALEX ROSA,A tale of two friends: Steiner systems S(2,4,v) and Curt Lindner
10:25-10:45 M. O. Pavcevic, 2-designs admitting tactical decompositions but no group actions
10:50-11:10 G. Bacak, Rupture degree of complete k-ary trees
11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-11:50 P. Tsikouras, A new decomposition for k-ary trees
11:55-12:15 N. Soltankhah, On total domination in some special graphs
12:15-14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 CONFERENCE PHOTO (Will be taken infront of ODEON at Campus Garden)
14:30-15:20 RICK WILSONSome applications of incidence matrices of t-subsets and hypergraphs
15:25-15:45 I. Dejter, SQS-graphs of extended 1-perfect codes
15:50-16:10 M. Villanueva, Quaternary Hadamard codes and their intersections
16:10-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-16:50 C. Fernández-Cordoba, Pairs of rank and kernel dimension for Z2 Z4-linear codes
16:55-17:15 L. Reinhard, Decoding designs
17:20-17:40 N. Popova, Designing designs
17:45-18:05 A. Hamadi, Approaches that solve combinatorial problems for some new classes
18:30 BUSES LEAVE FOR THE BOAT TRIP

 

WEDNESDAY: CONFERENCE EXCURSION TO HISTORICAL CITY CENTER

 

THURSDAY 19/06/2008

Time Interval

9:30-10:20 JAMES HIRSCHFELD, Maximum sets in finite projective spaces
10:25-10:45 W. Broughton, Systems of parallel representatives in finite affine planes
10:50-11:10 C. Çalışkan, The proper subplanes of VW121 and Hughes121
11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-11:50 V. Krcadinac, The Kramer-Mesner method with tactical decompositions
11:55-12:15 S. Vidak, On unitals (65,5,1)
12:15-14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30-15:20 DEAN HOFFMAN, Gregarious G-designs , G-orthogonal arrays, and graph homomorphisms
15:25-15:45 C. M. K. Fu, Decomposing complete graphs into sun graphs of 3-cycle
15:50-16:10 M. Mezska, Almoast resolvable k-cycle systems
16:10-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-16:50 A. Abueida, Multidesigns in graph products
16:55-17:15 C. Baker, Packing complete bipartite graphs with cycles
17:20-17:40  İ. Cahit, On graceful labeling of trees
18:30 BUSES LEAVE FOR THE CONFERENCE DINNER

 

FRIDAY 20/06/2008

Time Interval

9:30-9:50 V. Mikulic, Primitive designs constructed from simple groups
9:55-10:15 A. Nakic, Some new designs with an automorphism of order six
10:15-10:35 Coffee Break
10:35-10:55 D. Moazzami, A survey on tenacity parameter of networks 
11:00-11:20 L.Özkahya, An intersection theorem with small unions
11:25-11:45 Ş. YazıcıThe full metamorphosis of λfold block designs with block size four
11:45-13:00 LUNCH BREAK
12:30 BUSES LEAVE FOR PRINCESS ISLANDS