Programme

All talks will take place in the O'Tnuathail lecture theatre, Arts Millennium Building

Wednesday, July 1

09.30−10.20	W. de Launey	Algebraic Design Theory
10.20−10.45	A. Rao	MUBs and MOLS - similar in more than spirit
10.45−11.15	Coffee break
11.15−12.05	J. F. Dillon	Some REALLY beautiful Hadamard matrices
12.05−12.30	I. Kotsireas	Recent advances in weighing matrices
12.30−14.30	Lunch
14.30−15.20	M. Matolcsi	The problem of mutually unbiased bases in dimension 6
15.20−15.45	F. Szöllösi	Exotic complex Hadamard matrices and their equivalence
15.45−16.15	Coffee break
16.15−17.05	D. Flannery	Algebra in Design Theory
17.05−17.30	P. Ó Catháin	Classification of cocyclic Hadamard matrices of order less than 40

Thursday, July 2

09.30−10.20	K. Horadam	Hadamard matrices and their applications: an update
10.20−10.45	C. Bracken	New families of q-ary error correcting codes obtained from generalised Hadamard matrices
10.45−11.15	Coffee break
11.15−12.05	R. M. Stafford	The Paley matrices and their automorphism groups
12.05−12.30	D. Levin	Near-extremal matrices
12.30−14.30	Lunch
14.30−15.20	V. Álvarez	Searching for (cocyclic) (partial) Hadamard matrices
15.20−15.45	M. D. Frau	A heuristic procedure with guided reproduction for constructing cocyclic Hadamard matrices over D4t
15.45−16.15	Coffee break
16.15−16.40	W. Orrick	Codes and the switching group for Hadamard matrices
16.40−17.05	F. Gudiel	Rooted trees searching for cocyclic Hadamard matrices over D4t
17.05−17.30	B. Güemes	On cocyclic Hadamard matrices over Zt x Z2^2

Friday, July 3

10.00−10.50	P. Cameron	Some aspects of codes over rings (especially the integers mod 4)
10.50−11.15	Coffee break
11.15−11.40	D. Gordon	On the distribution of orders of Hadamard matrices generated by Paley matrices
11.40−12.05	A. Panoui	Two new honeycomb arrays
12.05−12.30	J.A. Armario	On inequivalence criteria for cocyclic Hadamard matrices
12.30−14.30	Lunch
14.30−15.20	H. Kharaghani	Unbiased bases and Hadamard matrices
15.20−15.45	P. Lampio	Classification of difference matrices over cyclic groups
15.45−16.15	Coffee break
16.15−17.05	J. Seberry	Sylvester Hadamard Matrices