Tuesday September 30^th

 9:00          Registration of partecipants at “Villa Pace”

10:00         Opening ceremony

 10:30         G. Lunardon (University of Napoli)

                   Geometry from Bruck-Bose’s point of view. Variation on a classical theme

 11:30         S. Innamorati  (University of L’Aquila)

                   On the shape of minimal blocking sets in small  projective planes

 12:15         J. Van Bon (University of Calabria)

                   Affine Distance-transitive Graphs

13:00         Lunch

14:45         R. Wilson  (University of Oxford)

                   The early history of design theory

15:45         T. Vougiouklis (University of  Trace)

                   Finite  H_v - structures and their representations

 16:45         Talks

Wednesday October 1^st

                   Two-factorizations of the complete graph

 10:00         C.C. Lindner  (University of Auburn)

                   The history of embedding partial 5-cycle systems

 11:00         C. Rodger  (University of Auburn)

                   Graph Decompositions and Amalgamations

 12:00         M. Buratti  (University of Perugia)

                   Recent results on cyclic combinatorial designs

 12:45         Lunch

 14:30         Y. Chang  (Beijing Jiaotong University)

                   On cyclic block designs

 15:15         Talks

Thursday October 2^nd

                   Graphs with least eigenvalue –2; the eigenspace of  eigenvalue –2 

10:00         W. H. Haemers (Tilburg University)

                   The chromatic number of strongly regular graphs

11:00         V. D. Tonchev (Michigan Technological University)

                   Symmetric (4,4)-nets and generalized Hadamard matrices over groups of order 4

 12:00         S. K. Simic (University of Belgrade)

                   Some further investigations of graphs with  least eigenvalue

 12:45         Lunch

 14:30         A. Jurisic (Nova Gorica Polytechnic)

                   1-homogeneous graphs

 15:15         Talks

 20:00         Social dinner (Hotel Paradis)

 Friday October 3^rd

                   Voloshin colourings for Steiner systems 

10:00         V. Voloshin (Troy State University)

                   Coloring Mixed  Hypergraphs: survey of last  results

11:00         L. D. R. Kocinac (University of Nis)

                   Generalized Ramsey theory and topological  properties

12:00         N. Zagaglia (Polytechnic of Milano)

                   Alternating unimodal sequences of  withney numbers

 12:45         Lunch

 14:30         A. Bonisoli (University of Reggio Emilia and Modena)            

                   One-factorizations and groups

 15:15         Talks

Saturday October 4^th

 7:00          Excursion to Piazza Armerina - Aidone - Morgantina  (Departure from Hotel Paradis)

Università degli Studi di Messina

Dipartimento di Matematica dell’Università degli Studi di Messina

Fondi PRIN 2001 “Strutture Geometriche, Combinatorica e loro Applicazioni”

Comune di Messina

Provincia Regionale di Messina

Comune di Piazza Armerina

Comune di Aidone

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Here you are the list of the invited speakers.