FFCCA Schedule
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Sunday, April 21
- Arrivals, registration, orientation.
Monday, April 22
- 9:15-9:30 Welcome and introduction
- 9:30-10:30 Jonathan Jedwab, The structure of Costas arrays
- 10:30-11:00 coffee break
- 11:00-11:30 Jose Ortiz-Ubarri, Algebraic Symmetries of Generic (m+1)-Dimensional Periodic Costas Arrays
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch
- 14:30-15:30 Oscar Moreno, Synchronization patterns to detect one or multiple targets
- 15:30-16:00 coffee break
- 16:00-17:00 Open problem presentations and discussion
- 19:00-22:00 Welcome dinner with live music
Tuesday, April 23
- 9:00-10:00 Bill Martin, Linked Designs and MUBs
- 10:00-10:30 coffee break
- 10:30-11:30 Danilo Silva, Matrix Codes and Channels over Finite Fields and Rings
- 11:30-12:00 Ariane Masuda, title TBA
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch
- 14:00-15:30 Ambiguity and deficiency of maps
Daniel Panario, Differential map, ambiguity and deficiency of permutations over finite fields
Brett Stevens, Ambiguity and deficiency for use in a design theory scheduling problem
David Thomson, Difference maps between unequal finite groups
- 15:30-16:00 coffee break
- 16:00-17:00 Open problem presentation and discussion
Wednesday, April 24
- 9:00-10:00 Bridget Webb, Bachelors, monogamists and the Delta lemma
- 10:00-10:30 coffee break
- 10:30-11:00 David Thomson, Sets of orthogonal hypercubes
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11:00-11:30 Jonas Szutkoski, Gröbner basis and Sudokus
- 11:30-12:00 Luiz Emilio Allem, A Gao-Lecerf approach for factoring bivariate polynomials with coefficients in F_2
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch
- 14:00-15:00 LFSR sequences and combinatorial designs
Brett Stevens, LFSR constructions of difference sets, orthogonal arrays and covering arrays
Lucia Moura, A construction of strength-3 covering arrays using LFSR sequences
- 15:00-15:30 coffee break
- 15:30-17:00 Open problem presentation and discussion
Thursday, April 25
- 9:00-10:00 Peter Danziger, 2-factorisations of the complete graph: The Oberwolfach problem and beyond
- 10:00-10:30 coffee break
- 10:30-11:00 Nevena Francetic, Group divisible packing designs with block size 3: relationship to coverings
- 11:00-11:30 Elizabeth Maltais, Covering arrays and OR-arrays
- 11:30-12:30 Lunch
- 12:30-21:00 Tour until dinner
Friday, April 26
- 9:00-10:30 Work on open problems
- 10:30-11:00 coffee break
- 11:00-12:00 Work on open problems
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch
- 14:00-15:00 Work on open problems
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15:00-15:30 coffee break
- 15:30-17:00 Summary of work on open problems by groups
- 18:33 Moonrise at the ocean (full moon)
Saturday, April 27
- 9:00-whenever
Costa da Lagoa tour, hike (7km/2hs+) or boat (30min) to Canto dos Araçás, and barbecue at the Moura-Panario's.