Buildings 2010: Schedule
Monday
9:00 - 10:00 Registration (at the office of Ms Siekaup, Room 306)
10:00 - 10:50 Hendrik Van Maldeghem (Gent)
Non-embeddable polar spaces.
11:00 - 11:40 Anja Steinbach (Giessen)
On Moufang hexagons inside Chevalley groups.
Coffee break
12:00 - 12:40 James Parkinson (Sydney)
Regular sequences in affine buildings.
Lunch break
15:00 - 15:50 Koen Thas (Gent)
Classification of Singer quadrangles.
Coffee break
16:20 - 17:00 Koen Struyve (Gent)
Epimorphisms of spherical Moufang buildings.
17:10 - 17:50 Katrin Tent (Münster)
Topologically simple BN-pairs.
Tuesday
9:00 - 9:40 Linus Kramer (Münster)
The topology of a simple Lie group is essentially unique.
9:50 - 10:40 Ralf Gramlich (Birmingham/Darmstadt)
On finiteness properties of S-arithmetic groups, I.
Coffee break
11:10 - 12:00 Guntram Hainke (Birmingham)
The isomorphism problem for almost split Kac-Moody groups.
12:10 - 12:40 Barbara Baumeister (Münster)
Zassenhaus Moufang sets.
Lunch break
15:00 - 15:40 Rainer Löwen (Braunschweig)
Substituting compact disks in stable planes.
Coffee break
16:10 - 16:50 Norbert Knarr (Stuttgart)
Unitals over octonions.
17:00 - 17:30 Matthias Grüninger (Berlin)
On cubic action of a rank one group.
Wednesday
9:00 - 9:40 Sebastian Weiß (Giessen)
On the classification of simply laced twin buildings.
9:50 - 10:40 Stefan Witzel (Darmstadt)
On finiteness properties of S-arithmetic groups, II.
Coffee break
11:10 - 11:40 Max Horn (Braunschweig)
From Fischer spaces to (Lie) algebras.
11:50 - 12:30 Bernhard Mühlherr (Giessen)
An alternative proof for the center conjecture.
End of conference