Advances in Finite Geometries and Designs

Preface; Table of contents; Introduction; L. Bader: Flocks of cones and generalized hexagons; L.M. Batten and J.M.N. Brown: Group partitions, affine spaces and translation groups; A. Blokhuis and F. Mazzocca: On maximal sets of nuclei in PG(2,q) and quasi-odd sets in AG(2,q); A. Blokhuis, A.R. Calderbank, K. Metsch and A. Seress: An embedding theorem for partial linear spaces; A.E. Brouwer: A non-degenerate generalized quadrangle with lines of size four is finite; J.M.N. Brown: On abelian collineation groups of finite projective planes; F. Buekenhout: More geometry for Hering's 3 :SL(2,13); A.M. Cohen: Presentations for certain finite quaternionic relection groups; B.N. Cooperstein and E.E. Shult: Geometric hyperplanes of embeddable Lie incidence geometries; F. De Clerck, A. Del Fra, and D. Ghinelli: Pointsets in partial geometries; A. Del Fra, D. Ghinelli, and A. Pasini: One diagram for many geometries; M.J. de Resmini: On an exceptional semi-translation plane; W.HL Haemers, D.G. Higman, and S.A. Hobart: Strongly regular graphs induced by polarities of symmetric designs; J.W.P. Hirschfeld and Tzonyi: A Problem on squares in a finite field and its application to geometry; C. Ho and A. Goncalves: On totally irregular simple collineation groups; D.R. Hughes: On some rank 3 partial geometries; D. Jungnickel and V.D. Tonchev: Intersection numbers of quasi-multiples of symmetric designs; H. kaneta and T. Maruta: The discriminant of a cubic curve; W.M. Kantor: Automorphism groups of some generalized quadrangles; G. Korchmaros: Collineation groups of (q + t, t)-arcs of type (0,2,t) in a Desarguesian plane of order q; Y. Liu and Z. Wan: Pseudo-symplectic geometries over finite fields of characteristic two; S. Lowe: Solutions of quadratic equations in a groupring and partial addition sets; G. Lunardon: A remark on the derivation of flocks; T. Maruta: A geometric approach to semi-cyclic codes; G. Mason: Remarks on non-associative Galois theory; G.E. Moorhouse: Codes of nets with translations; C.M. O'Keefe, T Penttila, and C.M. Praeger: Stabilizers of hyperovals in PG(2, 32); J. Siemons and B. Webb: On a problem of Wielandt and a question by Dembowski; E. Spence: (40, 13,4)-designs derived from strongly regular graphs; L. Storme and J.A. Thas: Generalized Reed-Solomon codes and normal rational curves: an improvement of results by Seroussi and Roth; H. Van Maldeghem: Common characterizations of the finite Moufang polygons; J.F. Voloch: Complete arcs in Galois planes of non-square order; F. Wettl: Internal nuclei of k-sets in finite projective spaces of three dimensions; P.R. Wild: Menon difference sets and relative difference sets; List of Talks; List of Participants.