Session on Geometry, June 12-June 23, 2000
(organized by A. Pasini)

Main Courses

F. Timmesfeld (5 lectures,  12-16 June)
Title: Root groups on buildings and abstract root subgroups

R. Weiss (6 lectures,12 -16 June)
Title: Moufang Polygons

A.(Sasha) Ivanov (6 lectures,  19-23 June)
Title: Characterizations of groups by geometries and graphs

E. Shult (6 Lectures,  19-23 June)
Characterizations of point-line geometries of buildings

Other speakers

J. van Bon (Some Thompson-Wielandt like theorems)
B. Cooperstein (Generating and embedding dual polar spaces)
R. Curtis (Symmetric generation of sporadic simple groups)
H. Cuypers (Embedding groups and geometries)
J. Hall (Triality)
D. Leemans (RWPRI coset geometries: a survey)
H. van Maldeghem (Groups acting on polygons)
A. Pasini (Parallelism in diagram geometry)
S. Shpectorov (Revisiting Curtis-Tits theorem)
T. Steger (Groups acting simply transitively on the vertices of an affine building)
G. Stroth (Geometries and simple groups)
S. Yoshiara (p-local geometries)

Schedule

First week

 
M12
T13
W14
Th15
F16
09:45-10:00 Opening
10:00-11:00 Timmesfeld Timmesfeld Timmesfeld Timmesfeld Timmesfeld
11:15-12:15 Weiss Weiss Weiss Weiss Weiss
15:00-16:00 Stroth Weiss Cooperstein
16:15-17:15 Leemans Van Maldeghem Pasini

Second week

 
M19
T20
W21
Th22
F23
10:00-11:00 Shult Shult Shult Shult Shult
11:15-12:15 Ivanov Ivanov Ivanov Ivanov Ivanov
15:00-16:00 Yoshiara Steger Shult Shpectorov
16:15-17:15 Van Bon Cuypers Ivanov Hall
17:30-18:30 Curtis