Algebraic Combinatorics

An International Conference in Honour of Eiichi Bannai´s 60th Birthday

June 26 - 30, 2006

Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan

 

Sponsored by

Kyushu University COE Program

and

Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University.

 

Second Announcement

(First announcement is here)

 

A preliminary version of a booklet of program (June 8, 2006) is available

The Conference Algebraic Combinatorics

 

It is an annual conference dedicated to the themes in the field of algebraic combinatorics, including association schemes, codes, designs, finite geometry, graphs, and groups. This year´s conference, which is the 23rd of the series, is especially dedicated to the work of Eiichi Bannai in celebration of his 60th birthday. This field has been remarkable growth since 1984 publication of Bannai and Ito´s book, ``Algebraic Combinatorics I: Association Schemes.´´ Research developments on this subject have proceeded at an extraordinary pace in various directions in the last two decades. The goals of the conference are to disseminate some of the recent successes on the subject to the mathematical community, to discuss various emerging mathematical topics for which algebraic and combinatorial techniques are needed, and to bring together Bannai´s associates to celebrate Eiichi´s career. The conference begins in the morning of Monday, June 26, and ends in the late afternoon of Friday, June 30.

 

Plenary Speakers

·Christine Bachoc (Bordeaux) ·Eiichi Bannai (Fukuoka)
·Andries Brouwer (Eindhoven) ·Michel Deza (Paris)
·Koichiro Harada (Columbus) ·Alexander A. Ivanov (London)
·Mikhail Klin (BeerSheva, Israel) ·Jack Koolen (Pohang, Korea)
·Sergey Shpectorov (Birmingham)CANCELLED ·Neil J. A. Sloane (AT&T Shannon Labs)
·Patrick Solé (CNRS, France) ·Paul Terwilliger (Madison)
·Boris Venkov (St. Petersburg)CANCELLED ·Zhe-Xian Wan (Beijing)CANCELLED

Instructions for authors

In addition to the fourteen 50-minute plenary lectures, we plan to schedule about thirty 15- or 25-minute lectures and a diverse set of invited poster presentations. If you would like to present your paper, please submit an abstract by the deadline specified below.

We are considering holding a poster discussion session on Thursday afternoon after displaying all papers submitted to the poster session throughout the conference. See the poster presentation guidelines page. Please let us know in the registration form if you would like to present a poster. A letter of invitation is available upon request. Special documents are needed to obtain a Japanese visa for Chinese and Russian participants.

The Proceedings of the 23rd conference will be published with contributions from all presenters without referee.


Important dates

Abstract Submission Deadline May 7, 2006
Notification of Acceptance May 20, 2006
Hotel Reservation Deadline June 9, 2006
Conference June 26-30, 2006
Proceedings Version Deadline September 30, 2006

Please submit your abstract and your manuscript for the proceedings to munemasa@math.is.tohoku.ac.jp.

The abstract should be either in plain text or a LaTeX source file. The length of an abstract should be approximately one page.

Special events

We are planning a conference banquet for Thursday evening (June 29). The admission for the banquet will be determined and posted later, but it will cost about 5000 Yen (about $40 US). If you would like to attend the banquet, please specify this in your registration. Also there will be an excursion on Wednesday afternoon. This will cost about 4000 Yen ($33 US). Please indicate this also in the registration if you wish to participate. The fees will be collected during the conference. Please pay in cash.


Organizing committee

·Akihiro Munemasa (Tohoku, Japan. Local organizer)
·Mitsugu Hirasaka (Pusan, Korea)
·Tatsuro Ito (Kanazawa, Japan)
·Masanobu Kaneko (Fukuoka, Japan)
·Izumi Miyamoto (Yamanashi, Japan)
·Sung-Yell Song (Ames, U. S. A.)


Further participation guidelines

Registration

On-line registration page is now available here. There is no cost to register, and registration helps us estimate how many people to expect and make a plan accordingly in organizing the conference. All sessions will be held at Sendai International Center.

Accommodation & Transportation Information

Hotel accommodation can be requested through registration. That page contains transportation information and a listing of hotels in which blocks of rooms are available for the participants of this conference. All hotel reservation can be arranged by directly contacting JTB GMT in the above link. All reservation should be arranged as soon as your travel schedule is set, but no later than June 9, 2006.

 Note that the available rooms are either single rooms for one person or twin rooms for two persons. (In some hotels, twin rooms for a couple accompanied by a child are available upon request.) There are no suite style hotel rooms for a family of three or more.

 

Access to Sendai

The online registration page contains necessary travel information.

 

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact munemasa@math.is.tohoku.ac.jp.



This page is maintained by Akihiro Munemasa and was last updated on May 7, 2006.

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