Buildings 2014: Schedule
Monday September 29 (Lecture Hall M4)
9:00 - 10:00 Registration at the office of Ms Loew and Ms Thiele, Room 306.
(You may also register later on Monday.)
10:00 - 10:50 Hendrik Van Maldeghem (Gent)
E6.
11:00 - 11:40 Guy Rousseau (Nancy)
Iwahori-Hecke algebras associated to hovels.
Coffee break
12:00 - 12:40 Barbara Baumeister (Bielefeld)
Regular subgroups of primitive permutation groups..
Lunch break and Registration
14:30 - 15:00 Matthias Grüninger (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Weak quadratic Jordan algebras.
15:10 - 15:40 Erik Rijcken (Gent)
Generalizing Moufang sets to a local setting.
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Daniel Skodlerack (Norwich)
Stabilizers in the building of a classical group.
16:40 - 17:10 Christian Weigel (Giessen)
Parallel residues in gated chamber complexes.
17:20 - 17:50 Patrick Wegener (Bielefeld)
Transitive Hurwitz action on factorizations of Coxeter elements.
Tuesday September 30 (Lecture Hall M4)
9:30 - 10:10 Richard Weiss (Tufts)
Mixed buildings of type F4.
10:20 - 11:10 Bernhard Mülherr (Giessen)
On the structure of Moufang trees.
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:20 Jeroen Schillewaert (London)
Veronesean representations of projective planes over quadratic alternative division algebras.
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:00 Anneleen De Schepper (Gent)
Veronesean representations of projective spaces over quadratic associative division algebras.
15:10 - 15:40 Koen Struyve (Gent)
Multiple buildings.
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Max Horn (Giessen)
Cartan-Bott periodicity for compact forms of Kac-Moody algebras of type En.
16:40 - 17:10 Ana Silva (Gent)
Universal groups for right-angled buildings.
17:20 - 18:00 Linus Kramer (Münster)
Infinite products, Čech-Stone, and quotients of locally compact groups.
Wednesday October 1 (Lecture Hall M4)
9:30 - 10:20 Anne Thomas (Glasgow)
Quasi-isometry and commensurability of right-angled Coxeter groups.
10:30 - 11:20 Ralf Köhl (Giessen)
Fundamental domains of arithmetic subgroups of SL(2) in positive characteristic.
Coffee break
11:40 - 12:20 Thierry Stulemeijer (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Totally disconnected locally compact groups with a linear open subgroup.
Short lunch break
14:00 - 14:40 Nicolas Radu (Louvain-la-Neuve)
A topological characterization of the Moufang property for compact polygons.
14:50 - 15:30 Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Orthogonal forms of Kac-Moody groups are acylindrically hyperbolic.
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:30 Andrea Blunck (Hamburg)
Clifford parallelisms defined by octonions.
16:40 - 17:20 Markus Stroppel (Stuttgart)
Doubly homogeneous topological two-designs.
End of conference