OPENING

Welcoming session by

• V. Nesi, as Director of Mathematics Department
• C. Procesi, as Dean of Algebra
• F. Flaminio, as member of Scientific Committe

MORNING

Chairlady: D. Ghinelli

• 10.20-11.10 F. de Clerck: "Small is beautiful...."
• 11.10-11.40 Coffe Break
• 11.40-12.20 J. W.P. Hirschfeld: "Curves of genus 3"
• 12.30-12.50 A. Sonnino : "The Gale transform in finite geometry and coding theory"
• 13.00 Lunch

AFTERNOON

• 15.00-15.50 V. Jha : "Fractional Dimensional Semifields"
• 15.50-16.20 Coffe Break
• 16.20 -17.10 F. Mazzocca: "BLOCKING SET: Una panoramica di risultati e alcune recenti direzioni di ricerca"
• 17.20-17.40 C. Cerroni: "Some models of geometries after Hilbert's Grundlagen"

25 September

MORNING

Chairman: A. D'Andrea

• 10.00-10.50 S. Magliveras: "Cryptanalysis of the Tillich-Zemor hash function"
• 10.50-11.20 Coffe Break
• 11.20-12.10 L. Bader: "Spreads of PG(3,q) and Ovoids of H(3,q^2)"
• 12.20-12.40 D. Iacono: "A new look at the BTT-Theorem"
• 13.00 Lunch

AFTERNOON

Chairman: Antonio Machì

• 15.00-15.20 G. Bini: "Some Remarks on Calabi-Yau Manifolds"
• 15.30-15.50 M. Avitabile: "Thin Lie algebras"
• 15.50-16.20 Coffe Break
• 16.20-17.10 D. Jungnickel: "Characterizing Geometric Designs"

CLOSING

Greeting session by

• Ernest A. Ruet d'Auteuil, Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications
• M. Monsurrò
• C. Colasanti