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MA533: Association Schemes

Tues/Thurs 4:00--5:30 p.m. Spring 2011

Last modified: January 10, 2011

Here is a rough outline of the proposed syllabus for this course:

Strongly regular graphs
Basic representation theory of finite groups
Characters of groups and association schemes
Distance-regular graphs
Q-polynomial schemes
Coding theory
Design theory
Linear programming bounds
Spin models
Other selected applications

William J. Martin / WPI / martin.deletethis@wpi.edu