Finite geometries. Proceedings of the fourth Isle of Thorns conference, Brighton, UK, April 2000 (Q5959348)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The preceding Isle of Thorns conference (3, 1990) has been reviewed (see Zbl 0927.00008). Indexed articles: \textit{Blok, R. J.; Pasini, A.}, Point-line geometries with a generating set that depends on the underlying field, 1-25 [Zbl 1019.51005] \textit{Blokhuis, Aart; Jungnickel, Dieter; Schmidt, Bernhard}, On a class of symmetric divisible designs which are almost projective planes, 27-34 [Zbl 1027.51004] \textit{Buekenhout, Francis}, Generalized elliptic cubic curves. I, 35-48 [Zbl 1014.51003] \textit{Cameron, Peter J.}, Fixed points and cycles., 49-60 [Zbl 1046.20001] \textit{Cara, Philippe}, RWPRI geometries for the alternating group \(A_8\), 61-97 [Zbl 1017.51012] \textit{Cardinali, I.; Pasini, A.}, A characterization of truncated D\(_n\)-buildings as flag-transitive PG. PG*-geometries, 99-119 [Zbl 1017.51013] \textit{Cossidente, A.; King, O. H.}, Group-theoretic characterizations of classical ovoids, 121-131 [Zbl 1025.51016] \textit{Enge, Andreas}, A general framework for subexponential discrete logarithm algorithms in groups of unknown order, 133-146 [Zbl 1015.11067] \textit{Ghinelli, Dina; Löwe, Stefan}, Generalized quadrangles and pencils of quadrics, 147-158 [Zbl 1028.58017] \textit{Giulietti, M.; Hirschfeld, J. W. P.; Korchmáros, G.}, The Desarguesian plane of order thirteen, 159-170 [Zbl 1019.51011] \textit{Govaert, Eline; Van Maldeghem, Hendrik}, Two characterizations of the Hermitian spread in the split Cayley hexagon, 171-176 [Zbl 1018.51006] \textit{Gramlich, Ralf; Van Maldeghem, Hendrik}, Epimorphisms of generalized polygons. II: Some existence and non-existence results, 177-200 [Zbl 1017.51008] \textit{Hirschfeld, J. W. P.; Storme, L.}, The packing problem in statistics, coding theory and finite projective spaces: update 2001, 201-246 [Zbl 1025.51012] \textit{Landjev, I. N.}, The geometric approach to linear codes, 247-256 [Zbl 1025.51010] \textit{Luyckx, D.; Thas, J. A.}, Flocks and locally Hermitian 1-systems of \(Q(6,q)\), 257-275 [Zbl 1016.51008] \textit{Mühlherr, B.; Van Maldeghem, H.}, Diagrams for embeddings of polygons, 277-293 [Zbl 1017.51009] \textit{Payne, Stanley E.}, The Law-Pentilla \(q\)-clan geometries, 295-303 [Zbl 1019.51008] \textit{Praeger, Cheryl E.}, Implications of line-transitivity for designs, 305-317 [Zbl 1027.51005] \textit{Schmidt, Bernhard}, Exponent bounds, 319-331 [Zbl 1009.05028] \textit{Thas, Koen}, On symmetries and translation generalized quadrangles, 333-345 [Zbl 1028.51007] \textit{Wehlau, David L.}, Complete caps in projective space which are disjoint from a subspace of codimension two, 347-361 [Zbl 1019.51010]