Buildings 2011: Schedule
Tuesday October 4
13:00 - 15:00 Registration (at the office of Ms Beier and Ms Loew, Room 306)
15:00 - 15:50 Hendrik Van Maldeghem (Gent)
On the Freudenthal-Tits magic square.
Coffee break
16:20 - 16:50 Stefan Witzel (Münster)
Some convex subsets of Euclidean buildings.
17:00 - 17:50 Ralf Köhl (Gießen)
Local-to-global results for topological twin buildings.
Wednesday October 5
9:00 - 9:50 Katrin Tent (Münster)
On the isometry group of the Urysohn space.
10:00 - 10:30 Guntram Hainke (Gießen)
Alternating trilinear forms and Kac-Moody algebras of type En.
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:50 Bernhard Mühlherr (Gießen)
Multiple buildings.
12:00 - 12:30 Matthew Zaremsky (Bielefeld)
Some highly non-weakly transitive actions on buildings.
Lunch break
15:00 - 15:30 Barbara Baumeister (Bielefeld)
RGD-systems of right angled buildings.
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:40 Matthias Grüninger (Bielefeld)
Moufang twin trees.
16:50 - 17:40 Timothée Marquis (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Open subgroups of locally compact Kac-Moody groups.
Thursday October 6
9:00 - 9:50 Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Trees, contractions and SL2.
10:00 - 10:30 Anja Steinbach (Gießen)
Special rank one groups with abelian unipotent subgroups are perfect.
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 Bruno Duchesne (Jerusalem)
Euclidean buildings which appear as asymptotic cones of infinite dimensional symmetric spaces.
11:50 - 12:30 Mathieu Carette (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Spectral rigidity of automorphic orbits in the free group.
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:10 Koen Struyve (Gent)
Descent of affine buildings.
15:20 - 15:50 Sebastian Weiß (Gießen)
On the Classification of twin buildings.
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00 Walter Freyn (Münster)
A lightcone construction of the Tits building of a hyperbolic Kac-Moody group.
17:10 - 17:40 Norbert Knarr (Stuttgart)
Automorphisms of octonion fields in characteristic 2.
End of conference