Steven Dougherty
Department of Mathematics
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510
USA
doughertys1@scranton.edu

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Length 72 Problem  Curriculum Vita  Non-mathematical interests
Self-dual codes Mathematical sites My family
Lattices Teaching Schedule St. Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church.
Planes Mathematics Dept Music
Nets UofS Books
Latin Squares Courses Taught Sherlock Holmes
MOLS Philosophy of Education Films
The 36 officer problem Mathematical Ancestry  Star Trek
MacWilliams Relations Erdos Number  A funny true story (In Russian)
Higher Weights Preferences
Tic-Tac-Toe Archiglas
Lectures Russki

Coauthors

I have worked with the following mathematicians.
  1. Eiichi Bannai, Kyushu University, Japan.
  2. Alexis Bonnecaze, INRIA, France.
  3. Anne Desideri Bracco, CNRS, France.
  4. Maureen T. Carroll, University of Scranton, USA. 
  5. Robin Chapman, University of Exeter, United Kingdom.
  6. Young Ju Choie, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea. 
  7. Philippe Gaborit, France.
  8. T. Aaron Gulliver, University of Victoria, Canada.
  9. Sunghyu Han, Korea.
  10. Masaaki Harada, Yamagata Univesity, Japan.
  11. Haesuk Kim, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea. 
  12. Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville.
  13. Sun Young Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea.
  14. Hamid Kulosman, University of Louisville.
  15. San Ling, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 
  16. Hongwei Liu, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
  17. Sihem Mesnager, University of Paris VIII, France.
  18. Akihiro Munemasa, Kyushu University, Japan.
  19. Luz Nochefranca, University of Philippines, Philippines.
  20. Manabu Oura, Sapporo Medical University, Japan.
  21. Young Ho Park, Kangwon National University, Korea.
  22. Reshma Ramadurai, University of Illinois at Chicago.
  23. Keisuke Shiromoto, Kumamoto University, Japan.
  24. Maxim Skriganov, Steklov Institute, Russia.
  25. Patrick Sole, CNRS, France.
  26. Theresa Szczepanski, University of Scranton.
  27. John Wang, University of Victoria, Canada.

Academic Institutions

I have visited or studied at the following institutions.

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D.( under E.F.Assmus Jr.), M.S. (Mathematics) Lehigh University 
  • B.S. (Mathematics) University of Scranton

Visitors to Scranton

  • Hongwei Liu, Central Normal China University, September 2007 - August 2008.
  • Reshma Ramadurai, University of Illinois at Chicago, Summer 2005.
  • Young Ho Park, Kangwon National University, Korea, January - December 2004.

Research Interests

Coding Theory: self-dual codes, shadow codes, codes over rings, weight enumerators, MacWilliams relations , higher weights, codes in Mat_{n,s}(F_q) with a non-Hamming metric, Maximum Distance Seperable Codes, and unimodular lattices.


  Combinatorics: finite nets, affine and projective planes, latin squares.

The Fano plane
 


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