MAA Short Course Schedule,

SHORT COURSE ON AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR CORRECTING CODES
            South Bay Room, Covel Commons

Tuesday, August 1, 2000

8:00 am - 9:00 am     Registration

9:00 am -10:15 am     Introduction to Error Correcting Codes
                      Vera Pless, University of Illinois-Chicago

10:15 am - 10:45 am   Break

10:45 am - NOON       Cyclic Codes
                      W.C. Huffman, Loyola-Chicago

NOON - 1:30 pm        Lunch

1:30 pm - 2:45 pm     Decoding BCH Codes
                      W.C. Huffman,Loyola Chicago

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm     Break

3:15 pm - 4:45 pm     Codes and Designs
                      Vera Pless, University of Illinois-Chicago

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm     Reception
 

Wednesday, August 2, 2000

9:00 am -10:30 am     Codes on Curves
                      Judy Walker, University of Nebraska

10:30 am - 11:00      Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm   The Mathematics of the Compact Disc
                      J.H. van Lint, Technological University
                               Eindhoven, The Netherlands

12:30 pm - 2:00       Lunch

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm     Achieving the Shannon Limit: Turbo Codes
                                and Beyond
                      Robert J. McEliece, California Institute of
                                   Technology and JPL

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm     Break

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm     Codes for Deep Space Exploration
                      Fabrizio Pollaro, JPL

4:15 pm - 4:45 pm     Break

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm     Panel on the Uses of Coding
                      J.H. van Lint, R.J.  McEliece, and F. Pollaro