QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

MAS417

Association Schemes and Partially Balanced Designs

Course Material Spring 2001

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Course descriptions and course information


Lecture Notes

  1. Definitions of Association Scheme
  2. Adjacency Matrices
  3. Some Special Association Schemes
  4. The Bose-Mesner Algebra
  5. Character Tables
  6. Techniques
  7. Strongly Regular Graphs
  8. Block Designs
  9. Partially Balanced Block Designs
  10. A Little Statistics
  11. Efficiency
  12. Cyclic Designs
  13. Families of Partitions
  14. Orthogonal block structures
    Coursework
    1. Assignment 1
    2. Assignment 2
    3. Assignment 3
    4. Assignment 4
    5. Assignment 5

    Examination material

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