Workshop: Moufang sets, buildings and groups

Date: 14.1. - 15.1.2011



Place: Konrad-Zuse-Institute Berlin

Takustrasse 7, 14195 Berlin

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Programme

Friday, 14.1.11 (Seminarraum)
14.00 Anja Steinbach (Giessen) On Moufang hexagons inside Chevalley groups
15.00 Coffee Break
15.30 Matthias Grüninger (FU Berlin) Moufang sets and cubic action
16.30 Sebastian Weiss (Giessen) Isomorphisms of Quadratic Jordan Algebras in Simply Laced Moufang Foundations
19:00 Dinner
Saturday, 15.1.11 (Hoersaal)
9.30 Richard Weiss (Tufts) Polar Regions
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Lien Boelaert (University of Gent) From Moufang quadrangles to structurable algebras
12.15 Markus Stroppel (Stuttgart) Orthogonal Polar Spaces in Unitals
13:15 Lunch Break
15.00 Katrin Tent (Universität Münster) Topologically simple BN-pairs
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 Tom de Medts (University of Gent).... Imprimitive Moufang sets