Harold N. (Thann) Ward Department of Mathematics University of Virginia P. O. Box 400137 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4137 Kerchof Hall 304 434-924-4941

Arms of Old Thann (from International Civic Arms)

Research interests: My main interest is in algebraic coding theory, especially in the connections between codes, designs, and geometries.  This developed from earlier research on finite groups and their representations, and these topics continue to be important in current research.  My most recent work has concerned divisible codes, optimal codes, and codes related to projective planes.

Loose Ends: talk presented at the October 2007 AMS Sectional meeting in Chicago.

The four [10,5,4] binary codes

A hasty reader is apt to misunderstand  the conditions of the problem.  — W. W. Rouse Ball It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. — A. N. Whitehead Yet what are all such gaieties to me Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? x2 + 7x + 53  = 11/3.  — Lewis Carroll

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