Professor Vassilis C Mavron

Professor
MA (Cantab), MSc PhD (London) Photograph of Professor Vassilis C Mavron.

Contact

Email: vcm@aber.ac.uk
Office: 417, Physical Sciences Building, Penglais Campus
Phone: (0)1970 622 766
Fax: (0)1970 622 826

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate Modules Taught

  • MA10110 - Coordinate and Vector Geometry
  • MA12610 - Mathematics for Economics and Finance 1
  • MA13610 - Mathematics for Economics and Finance 2
  • MA32410 - Graphs and Networks
  • MA33210 - Discrete Mathematics

Research

Designs, finite geometries and codes.

Biography

Membership of Academic Societies: LMS, FIMA, FCA (Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications), FHEA Hellenic Society of Scientists in GB

Area of Expertise: Design Theory, Finite Geometries and their Codes

Area of Interest: Coding Theory, Cryptography

Visiting Positions: University of Waterloo, Canada (1980), University of Western Ontario, London, Canada (1981) University of Cyprus (2003)

Staff Publications

  • Mavron, V C., and T. P. McDonough, and  H. N. Ward, Amalgams of designs and nets, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (2009); doi: 10.1112/blms/bdp060
  • Mavron, V C., and T P McDonough, and J D Key, An upper bound for the minimum weight of the dual codes of desarguesian  planes,  European J Combinatorics 30 (2009) 220-229. (DOI:10.1016.j.ejc.2008.01.03).
  • Mavron, V C., and T P McDonough, and J D Key, Partial permutation decoding for codes from affine geometry designs,  Journal of Geometry, 88, No. 1-2, (2008), 101-109.
  • Mavron, V C., and T P McDonough, and V D Tonchev, Maximal arcs and Hadamard designs. Discrete Mathematics, 308 (2008), 2742-2750.
  • Mavron, V C., and T. P. McDonough, and G L Mullen, The geometry of sets of orthogonal frequency hypercubes, Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 15, 6(2007), 449-459.
  • Mavron, V C., and T P McDonough, and J D Key, Information sets and related PD-sets for codes from finite geometries and designs. Finite Fields and their Applications 12 (2006), 232-247.
  • Mavron, V C, and J D Key and T P McDonough, Partial permutation decoding of codes from finite planes, European Journal of Cominatorics, 26, 5 (2005)
  • Mavron, V C, McDonough, T P & Shrikhande, M S, Quasi-symmetric designs with a good block and intersection number 1, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 28, 2, 147-162 (2003)
  • Mavron, V C, Al-Kenani, A N, Non-tactical symmetric nets, J London Math Soc (2) 67, 273-288 (2003)
  • Mavron, V C, D. Jungnickel  and T. P. McDonough, The geometry of frequency squares. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 96 (2001), 376-387
  • Mavron, V C, McDonough, T P, Pallikaros, C A, A difference matrix construction and a class of balanced generalized weighing matrices, Archiv der Mathematik 76(2001) 259-264
  • Mavron, V C, Jungnickel, D, McDonough, T P, The geometry of frequency squares, Journal of Combinatorial Theory A, 96 (2001) 376-387
  • Mavron, V C, McDonough, T P, Pallikaros, C A, Generealised Hadamard matrices and translations, J.Statistical Planning and Inference 86, 527-533 (2000)
  • Mavron, V C, Tonchev, V D, On symmetric nets and generalized Hadamard matrices from affine designs, J. Geometry 67 (2000) 180-187
  • Mavron, V C, Frequency squares and affine designs, Electronic J. Combinatorics 7 (2000) R56
  • Mavron, V C, A construction method for complete sets of mutually orthogonal frequency squares, Electonic J. Combinatorics 7(2000), N5
  • Mavron, V C, Mohan, R N, Almost alpha-resolvable and almost alpha-affine resovable designs, Combinatorial, Information and Systems Sciences 25 (2000), 267-275