Geometries

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