Publication List for Harold N. Ward

• Amalgams of designs and nets, Bulletin London Math. Soc., to appear (with Tom McDonough and Vass Mavron).
• Cocyclic Hadamard matrices from forms over finite Frobenius rings, Linear Algebra and its Applications 430 (2009), no. 7, 1730--1738 (with Gary McGuire).
• Gold and Kasami-Welch functions, quadratic forms and bent functions, Advances in Mathematics of Communications 1 (2007), no. 2, 243--250 (with Jyrki Lahtonen and Gary McGuire).
• Arcs, minihypers, and the classification of three-dimensional Griesmer codes, in "Advances in Coding Theory and Crytography" (T. Shaska, W. C. Huffman, D. Joyner, and V. Ustimenko, eds.), World Scientific, Singapore (2007), 33 – 50.
• A geometric approach to classifying Griesmer codes, Des. Codes Cryptogr., 44 (2007), nos. 1–3, 169–196 (with Ray Hill).
• New quasi-symmetric designs constructed using mutually orthogonal Latin squares and Hadamard matrices, Des. Codes Cryptogr. 41 (2006), no. 2, 195–198 (with Carl Bracken and Gary McGuire). (pdf)
• Optimal four-dimensional codes over GF(8), Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 13 (2006), #R43 (with Chris Jones and Angela Matney). (pdf)
• An introduction to algebraic coding theory, in " Coding Theory and Quantum Computing," Contemporary Mathematics 381 (2005), 27–52.
• A sequence of unique quaternary Griesmer codes, Des. Codes Cryptogr. 33 (2004), 71–85.
• Dual codes of projective planes of order 25, Advances in Geometry 3 (2003), 140–152 (with K. L. Clark, L. D. Hatfield, and J. D. Key).
• Divisible codes - a survey, Serdica Math. J. 27 (2001), 263–278. (pdf)
• Divisible codes - a survey, in "Optimal Codes and Related Topics," proceedings of the EuroWorkshop on optimal codes and related topics, Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, 10 - 16 June, 2001, 151–165.
• On (q² + q + 2, q + 2)-arcs in the projective plane PG(2,q), Des. Codes Cryptogr. 24 (2001), 205–224 (with Simeon Ball, Ray Hill, and Ivan Landjev).
• The divisible code bound revisited, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 94 (2001), 34–50.
• The nonexistence of a [207,4,165] code over GF(5), Des. Codes Cryptogr. 22 (2001), 139–148.
• The MacWilliams identity, Arch. Math. (Basel) 74 (2000), 95–96.
• An introduction to divisible codes, Des. Codes Cryptogr. 17 (1999), 73–79.
• Quadratic residue codes and divisibility, Chapter 9 in  "Handbook of  Coding Theory" (V. S. Pless and W. C. Huffman, eds.;
       R. A. Brualdi, asst. ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam (1998), 827–870. (Correction)
• A determination of the weight enumerator of the code of the projective plane of order 5, Nota di Matematica 18, No. 1, (1998), 71–99 (with Gary McGuire).
• The weight enumerator of the code of the projective plane of order 5, Geometriae  Dedicata 73 (1998), 63–77 (with Gary McGuire).
• Divisibility of codes meeting the Griesmer bound, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A  83, (1998), 79–93.
• Characterization of certain minimal rank designs, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A  83 (1998), 42–56 (with Gary McGuire).
• Characterizing the Ree and Hermitian unitals on 28 points,  Des. Codes Cryptogr. 13 (1998), 57–61
       (with Gary McGuire and Vladimir Tonchev).
• Characters and the equivalence of codes, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 73 (1996), 348–352 (with Jay Wood).
• Existence of Abelian group code partitions, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A  67 (1994), 276–281 (with Li Zhu).
• Divisors of codes of Reed-Muller type, Discrete Math. 131 (1994), 311–323.
• Decoding binary two-error correcting cyclic codes with Zech logarithms, IEEE Trans. Communications 40 (1992),
       1789–1792 (with Patrick Stevens)
• A bound for divisible codes, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory  38 (1992), 191–194.
• Quadratic residue codes in their prime, J. Algebra 150 (1992), 87–100.
• Quadratic residue codes of length 27, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory  36 (1990), 950–953.
• Visible codes, Arch. Math. (Basel)  54 (1990), 307–312.
• Weight polarization and divisibility, Discrete Math. 83 (1990), 315–326.
• Coding theory and representation theory, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math. 47 (1987), 339–348.
• Review of "Introduction to Coding Theory" (J. H. van Lint), Amer. Math. Monthly  91 (1984), 522–525.
• Divisors of codeword weights, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory IT–29 (1983), 337–342.
• Multilinear forms and divisors of codeword weights, Quart. J. Math. Oxford Ser. (2)  34 (1983), 115–128.
• Binary views of ternary codes, in "The Geometric Vein," Springer–Verlag, New  York, 1982, 593–598.
• Divisible codes, Arch. Math. (Basel)  36 (1981), 485–494.
• Center sets and ternary codes, J. Algebra 65 (1980), 206–224.
• The weight enumerator of a family of codes over GF(4), IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory IT–26 (1980), 366–367
       (with Bill Newman).
• Ternary codes of minimum weight  6 and the classification of the self-dual codes  of length 20, IEEE Trans.
       Inform. Theory  IT–26 (1980), 305–316 (with Vera Pless and  Neil J. A. Sloane).
• Combinatorial polarization, Discrete Math. 26 (1979), 185–197.
• Self-dual codes over GF(4), J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 25 (1978), 288–318 (with F. Jessie MacWilliams,
       Andrew M. Odlyzko, and Neil J. A. Sloane).
• A restriction on the weight enumerator of a self-dual code, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 21 (1976), 253–255.
• A form for M₁₁, J. Algebra 37 (1975), 340–361.
• Quadratic residue codes and symplectic groups, J. Algebra 29 (1974), 150–171.
• Representations of symplectic groups, J. Algebra  20 (1972), 182–195.
• Automorphisms of quaternion-free 2-groups, Math. Z. 112 (1969), 52–58.
• An extension of a theorem on monomial groups, Amer. Math. Monthly 76 (1969), 534–535.
• On the triviality of primary parts of the Schur multiplier, J. Algebra 10 (1968),  377–382.
• The analysis of representations induced from a normal subgroup, Michigan  Math. J. 15 (1968), 417–428.
• On Ree's series of simple groups, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 121 (1966), 62–89.
• On Ree's series of simple groups, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 69 (1963), 113–114.
• Some results on the group algebra of a group over a prime field, Seminar on Group Theory, Harvard University,
  1960–61, 113–119.
• Problem E 1404: A property of the two-dimensional point lattice, Amer. Math. Monthly 67 (1960), 805–807.

  Reviews

  For what it's worth, here are reviews written by me for Mathematical Reviews.

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  Doctoral students:

  John Frank Moseley, 1968; Kentucky State University Donald William Newhart, 1980; National Security Agency James Andrew Davis, 1987; University of Richmond Julia Lynn Morrisett Clark, 1991; Hollins University James Thomas Wilmot, 1994; National Security Agency Deirdre Longacher Smeltzer, 1994;  Eastern Menonite University Todd Douglas Vance, 1997; National Security Agency Kevin Lee Chouinard, 1998; Northern Virginia Community College John Bowen Polhill, 1999; Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Christopher Michael Boner, 1999; Metron, Inc; Reston, Virginia Leslie Dawn Hatfield, 2003; Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia

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