IWHCMA'07

International Workshop on
Hadamard and Cocyclic Matrices and Applications

Sevilla (Andalucia, Spain)  -  18-19 June ,  2007

 

Tentative program

18 June, Monday

9:00-10:00 Registration.
10:00-11:00 Opening Lecture. Prof. Kathy Horadam. On cocycles and cocyclic (generalised) Hadamard matrices.
11:00-11:30 Coffee break.
11:30-12:00 Talk. Víctor Álvarez. Towards the (cocyclic) Hadamard conjecture: new insights.
12:00-12:30 Talk. José Andrés Armario. The cohomological reduction method for computing n-dimensional cocyclic matrices.
12:30-13:00 Talk. Dean Flannery. On shift representations.
13:00-13:30 Talk. Asha Rao. Cocyclic Butson Hadamard matrices of order n and their codes.
  LUNCH
16:00-17:00 Invited Lecture. Prof. Gary McGuire. On Cocyclic Hadamard Matrices from Finite Frobenius Rings.
17:00-17:30 Coffee break.
17:30-18:00 Talk. Wojtek Tadej. On continuous families of complex Hadamard matrices.
18:00-18:30 Talk. Mate Matolcsi. Constructions of complex Hadamard matrices via tiling of abelian groups.
18:30-19:00 Talk. Remus Nicoara. Some invariants for complex Hadamard matrices.
19:00-19:30 Talk. Marilena Mitrouli. On the growth problem of Hadamard matrices.
21:00 BANQUET DINNER

19 June, Tuesday

10:00-11:00 Invited Lecture (tentative). Prof. Christos Koukouvinos. Recent progress on inequivalent Hadamard matrices.
11:00-11:30 Coffee break.
11:30-12:00 Talk. Ilias Kotsireas. Algebraic computational and heuristic algorithms for structured Hadamard matrices.
12:00-12:30 Talk. Mercè Villanueva. On the intersection problem for Hadamard codes.
12:30-13:00 Talk. Josep Rifà. Intersection of quaternary Hadamard codes.
13:00-14:00 Closing Lecture. Dr. Warwick de Launey. On cocyclic pairwise combinatorial designs.
  LUNCH
   
   
   
  FREE AFTERNOON FOR TOURISM