Buildings 2008
Münster
September 29 - October 1 2008
Linus Kramer
The conference starts on Monday, Sept. 29 at 10 am in Münster.
Schedule
Tea and coffee is served in the institute (entrance level), the lectures take place in
M4 in the opposite building.
This schedule is preliminary and may still change.
Please re-check.
Monday
10:00-10:50
Hendrik Van Maldeghem (Gent)
Embeddings of the split Cayley hexagons and generalized Veronesean embeddings of projective planes
(Coffee break)
11:20-12:00
Koen Struyve (Gent)
Subbuildings corresponding to fixbuildings at infinity
(Lunch break)
15:00-15:50
Ralf Gramlich (Darmstadt/Birmingham)
Lattices in locally compact Kac Moody groups
(Coffee break)
16:20-17:00
Andreas Mars (Darmstadt)
kω-topologies on Kac-Moody groups
17:20-18:00
James Parkinson (Graz)
The horocyclic product of affine buildings
Tuesday
9:00-9:50
Walter Freyn (Augsburg)
Twin buildings for Kac-Moody symmetric spaces
10:00-10:50
Koen Thas (Gent)
Some prime power and parameter conjectures in incidence geometry
(Coffee break)
11:20-12:10
Max Horn (Darmstadt)
Involutions of algebraic and Kac-Moody groups
(Lunch break)
15:00-15:30
Andrea Blunck (Hamburg)
Clifford Parallelisms defined by octonions
(Coffee break)
16:00-16:30
Christoph Wockel (Göttingen)
Universal group cocycles for simplicial groups
16:50-17:40
Timotheé Marquis (Bruxelles)
Angle-deformations in Coxeter groups
Wednesday
9:00-9:40
Jeroen Schillewaert (Gent)
Characterizations of Veronesean surfaces
10:00-10:40
Stefan Witzel (Darmstadt)
Sphericity of certain subcomplexes of buildings and finiteness properties of associated groups
(Coffee break)
11:10-11:50
Matthias Grüninger (Berlin)
The automorphism group of a nonclassical generalized hexagon
(Lunch break)
14:00-14:40
Simon Huggenberger (Gent)
Twin geometries of arbitrary rank
15:00-15:40 Norbert Knarr (Stuttgart)
Symplectic spreads
End of conference