This conference is in celebration of Professor Aiden Bruen's 80th birthday, to acknowledge and honour his contributions to finite geometry, design theory, coding theory, and combinatorics in general.  Professor Bruen has had a tremendous impact in these areas, publishing dozens of highly cited articles. including but certainly not limited to Inventiones Mathematicae, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Journal of Combinatorial Designs, and Designs, Codes and Cryptography. Professor Bruen is also an author of Cryptography, Information Theory, and Error Correction:…