Eindhoven Seminar Combinatorial Theory

Time, Place and Intent Planned Lectures Tentative Lectures Lectures given in 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001

Lectures given in 2005 January 12 (A) (13:45) Arjeh Cohen Some curious posets on sets of mutually orthogonal roots of Coxeter groups of simply laced type January 19 (T) (13:45) Aart Blokhuis The plactic monoid January 26 (T) (13:45) Aart Blokhuis The plactic monoid February 2 (A) (13:45) Scott Murray Conjugacy and twisted conjugacy in classical groups (A) (15:00) Hans Cuypers Secants of embedded polar spaces March 2 (A) (13:45) C.E. van de Woestijne Deterministic equation solving over finite fields March 16 (A) (13:45) DeBeule On small minimal blocking sets of Q(4,q), q odd (A) (15:00) Cohen Lang in Las Vegas (joint work with Scott Murray) March 23 (P) (13:45) Dié Gijsbers BMW algebras and tangle algebras of type Dn March 30 (A) (13:45) Csaba Schneider (Budapest) Listing finite Lie algebras (A) (13:45 hrs.) David Galindo (Nijmegen) Identity based encryption with tight security reduction April 6 (M) (13:45) Jos in 't panhuis Planar tensor categories for the linear groups (M) (13:45) Erik Postma Lie algebras as truncated co-induced modules April 13 (A) (12:45-13:40) Vincenzo Bonifaci (La Sapienza, Rome) The on-line asymmetric Travelling Salesman Problem (A) (13:45-15:45) Eamonn O'Brien (Auckland) Effective algorithmic approaches to the study of linear groups April 27 (A) (12:45-13:40) Stefan van Zwam Some examples of algoritmic game theory (D) (13:45) Man Nguyen A construction of strength-3 orthogonal arrays using symmetry (D) (15:00) Peter van de Ven On the equivalence of three estimators for the dispersion effects in unreplicated two-level factorial designs May 4 (A) (13:45) Martijn Stam (Bristol) Practical Cryptography in High Dimensional Tori (A) (15:00) Jan Draisma (Basel) On a theorem of Gerstenhaber May 11 (A) (13:45) Leo van Iersel Complexity of conforming biological strings May 18 (A) (13:45) Bruce Westbury (Warwick) Planar graphs and lattice graphs May 25 (M) (13:45) Stanislav Bulygin Generalized Hermitian Codes over GF(2r) June 1 (M) (14:45) Jos in't panhuis Planar diagrams and combinatorial tensor categories June 15 (A) (13:45) Richard Weiss (Boston) Spherical buildings and Moufang polygons June 22 (M) (13:45) Jan Willem Knopper Automatic proving of graph non-isomorphism June 29 (M) (13:45) Dan Roozemond Lie algebras generated by 5 extremal elements August 17 (M) (13:45) Vincent Remie Efficient optimization of electronic circuits (M) (15:45) Dan Roozemond Lie algebras generated by extremal elements September 7 (A) (13:15) Alexander Premet (Manchester) Simple Lie algebras in prime characteristic September 21 (A) (13:45) Björn Assmann Fast multiplication in polycyclic groups September 22 (A) (16:00) Man Nguyen's PhD defense September 28 (A) (14:50) Michel Lavrauw A new approach to finite semifields October 5 (A) (14:50) Juan Garay (Bell Labs) Fair Multi-Party Computation - Take Two October 12 (A) (16:00) Sergei Haller (PhD defense) Computing Galois cohomology and forms of linear algebraic groups October 19 (M) (14:50) Wannes Rosius Distance-transitive graphs of type F4 October 26 (A) (12:45) Tjark Vredeveld Stochastic online scheduling on parallel machines (A) (13:45) Hans Zantema Computer Algebra and rewriting November 2 (A) (13:45) An De Wispelaere One-point extensions of classical generalized hexagons (A) (14:50) Andries Brouwer (0,2)-graphs November 16-18 DIAMANT/EIDMA symposium 2005 November 23 (A) (13:45) Tim Mussche Graph Homomorphisms (G) (14:50) Jan Draisma Polarisation in Invariant Theory November 30 (A) (13:30) Leo Storme Linear codes meeting the Griesmer bound December 7 (A) (13:45) Willem De Graaf Parametrizing certain types of varieties using Lie algebras December 14 (A) (13:45) Aart Blokhuis Embedding arbitrary posets in posets of bounded degree December 21 (A) (13:45) Hein van der Holst A polynomial time algorithm to find a linkless embedding of a graph