The examination will be on Thursday 18 May from 1430 to 1730 in Room 326 of the Francis Bancroft Building.

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This material will remain here until after the examination

Lectures are from 1400 to 1600 on Mondays in Room G2 in the School of Mathematical Sciences. There will be a weekly class, from 1200 to 1300 in the same room.

My office hours are:

Monday	0930-1030
Wednesday	1300-1400
Friday	1330-1430

Apart from the course descriptions, the items below are PDF files; you will need Acrobat Reader to browse or print them.

Course descriptions and course information

• Course Description from the College course directory
• Course Description from the Maths UG Handbook
• Reading List
• Key Objectives

1. Definitions of Association Scheme
2. Adjacency Matrices
3. Some Special Association Schemes (the notation b_i and c_i and are interchanged)
4. The Bose-Mesner Algebra
5. The main theorem
6. Character tables
7. Techniques
8. Strongly regular graphs
9. Crossing and nesting
10. Block designs
11. Partially Balanced Block Designs
12. A Little Statistics
13. Efficiency

1. Assignment 1
2. Assignment 2
3. Assignment 3
4. Assignment 4
5. Assignment 5

• Previous exam paper

Here is a picture of the cube association scheme.

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