Buildings 2007

Münster

October 8 - 11 2007

Linus Kramer

Participants & Talks:

Barbara Baumeister (Berlin) Simple Bol loops of exponent 2
Christoph Block (Bielefeld)
Andrea Blunck (Hamburg) Clifford parallelisms
Mathieu Carette (Bruxelles)
Tom De Medts (Gent) Special abelian Moufang sets of finite Morley rank
Alice Devillers (Bruxelles)
An de Wispelaere (Gent) The geometry of the Hall-Janko group as a maximal subgroup of G2(4)
Jan Essert (Münster) (Generalized) Wagoner complexes and their applications
Walter Freyn (Augsburg)
Anuradha Garge (Bielefeld)
Shripad Garge (Bielefeld) Gelfand models for finite Coxeter groups
Ralf Gramlich (Darmstadt) Opposition in triality
Theo Grundhöfer (Würzburg)
Hermann Hähl (Stuttgart)
Guntram Hainke (Bielefeld) Isomorphisms of quasi-split Kac-Moody groups
Max Horn (Darmstadt) Non-standard geometric covering theory
Simon Huggenberger (Gent) Point-line spaces related to Jordan pairs
Michael Joswig (Darmstadt) Tropical Convexity in Affine Buildings of Type Ãn
Benoît Kloeckner (Grenoble) Differentiable compactifications of symmetric spaces
Norbert Knarr (Giessen) Polarities of Coulter-Matthews planes
Catherina Köhl (Darmstadt)
Linus Kramer (Münster)
Boris Krinn (Stuttgart)
Frederick Magata (Münster)
Andreas Mars (Darmstadt)
Bernhard Mühlherr (Bruxelles) Affine buildings of type C˜2
Aude Nguyen (Bruxelles)
Dominik Plümacher (Darmstadt)
Harm Pralle (Braunschweig)
Johannes Rauh (Würzburg) Two-transitive Lie groups
Wolf Hanno Rehn (Frankfurt) Geometric invariants Σn(ρ) for Chevalley groups, acting on their symmetric spaces
Antje Rothmund (Stuttgart) (Finite) fourgonal families and Heisenberg groups
Rudolf Scharlau (Dortmund)
Lars Scheele (Bielefeld)
Jeroen Schillewaert (Gent) Characterizations of finite classical polar spaces by intersection numbers
Nina Steinig (Bielefeld) Half-Moufang polygons with a central elation
Markus Stroppel (Stuttgart) Linearly small elation quadrangles
Koen Struyve (Gent) Non-discrete buildings of type Ã2
Beukje Temmermans (Gent)
Katrin Tent (Bielefeld) Simplicity of certain automorphism groups
Koen Thas (Gent) Generalized quadrangles with a sharply transitive automorphism group
Hendrik Van Maldeghem (Gent) Some characterizations of some buildings
Markus Wermer (Münster)
Stefan Witzel (Darmstadt) Cubical complexes
Christoph Wockel (Göttingen)

The conference starts on Monday, Oct. 8 at 2 pm in Münster.
For directions, see here.

The next bus stop is named 'Coesfelder Kreuz', from the train station you can take the buses

Here you find a map centered at the math building.
Schedule

The schedule is preliminary and may still change. Please re-check.


Monday

14:00 Coffee, Tea & Cookies

15:00-15:40 Hendrik Van Maldeghem (Gent)
Some characterizations of some buildings

15:50-16:30 Ralf Gramlich (Darmstadt)
Opposition in triality

16:40-17:10 Andrea Blunck (Hamburg)
Clifford parallelisms

17:20-18:00 Norbert Knarr (Giessen)
Polarities of Coulter-Matthews planes

Tuesday

9:00-9:40 Simon Huggenberger (Gent)
Point-line spaces related to Jordan pairs

9:50-10:30 Tom De Medts (Gent)
Special abelian Moufang sets of finite Morley rank

Coffee break

11:00-11:40 An de Wispelaere (Gent)
The geometry of the Hall-Janko group as a maximal subgroup of G2(4)

11:50-12:20 Jeroen Schillewaert (Gent)
Characterizations of finite classical polar spaces by intersection numbers

Lunch break

14:30-15:10 Barbara Baumeister (Berlin)
Simple Bol loops of exponent 2

15:20-15:50 Nina Steinig (Bielefeld)
Half-Moufang polygons with a central elation

Coffee break

16:30-17:10 Michael Joswig (Darmstadt)
Tropical Convexity in Affine Buildings of Type Ãn

17:20-18:00 Koen Thas (Gent)
Generalized quadrangles with a sharply transitive automorphism group

Wednesday

9:00-9:40 Benoît Kloeckner (Grenoble)
Differentiable compactifications of symmetric spaces

9:50-10:30 Wolf Hanno Rehn (Frankfurt)
Geometric invariants Σn(ρ) for Chevalley groups, acting on their symmetric spaces

Coffee break

11:00-11:40 Johannes Rauh (Würzburg)
Two-transitive Lie groups

11:50-12:20 Stefan Witzel (Darmstadt)
Cubical complexes

Lunch break

14:30-15:10 Katrin Tent (Bielefeld)
Simplicity of certain automorphism groups

15:20-15:50 Koen Struyve (Gent)
Non-discrete buildings of type Ã2

Coffee break

16:30-17:10 Bernhard Mühlherr (Bruxelles)
Affine buildings of type C˜2

17:20-18:00 Guntram Hainke (Bielefeld)
Isomorphisms of quasi-split Kac-Moody groups

Thursday

9:00-9:40 Shripad Garge (Bielefeld)
Gelfand models for finite Coxeter groups

9:50-10:30 Jan Essert (Münster)
(Generalized) Wagoner complexes and their applications

Coffee break

11:00-11:30 Max Horn (Darmstadt)
Non-standard geometric covering theory

11:40-12:10 Antje Rothmund (Stuttgart)
(Finite) fourgonal families and Heisenberg groups

12:20-13:00 Markus Stroppel (Stuttgart)
Linearly small elation quadrangles

Lunch break

End of conference