International Conference on
Buildings, Finite geometries and Groups

AUGUST 29 - 31, 2010

Venue: Platinum Jubilee Auditorium

(A Satellite Conference of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 2010.)

Programme Schedule

August 29, 2010 (Sunday)

9.30 am - 10.00 am - Registration

10.00 am - 10.15 am - Inauguration

Chair Person: Pre-lunch Session: Peter Sin

Chair Person: Post-lunch Session: Arjeh Cohen

10.15 - 11.00	F.G. Timmesfeld	Consequence of the theory of abstract root subgroups
11.00 - 11.20	Coffee Break
11.20 - 12.05	Lizhen Ji	Applications of buildings and curve complexes in topology and geometry
12.15 - 1.00	Antonio Pasini	Classifying flag-transitive circular extensions of the $F_4(2)$-building
1.00 - 2.30	Lunch Break
2.30 - 3.15	Ralf Gramlich	On the geometry of global functions fields, the Riemann-Roch theorem, and finiteness properties of S-arithmetic Groups
3.20 - 4.05	Navin Singhi	Two problems in Discrete Mathematics
4.05 - 4.25	Coffee Break
4.25 - 5.10	Bhama Srinivasan	Modular representations of finite general linear groups: old and new
	Coffee Break

August 30, 2010 (Monday)

Chair Person: Pre-lunch Session: F.G. Timmesfeld

Chair Person: Post-lunch Session: Bhama Srinivasan

9.30 - 10.15	Arjeh Cohen	The geometry of extremal elements in a Lie algebra
10.20 - 11.05	Arun Ram	Musings towards Elliptic buildings
11.05 - 11.25	Coffee Break
11.25 - 12.10	Roderick Gow	Properties of a 27-dimensional space of symmetric bilinear forms acted on by $E_6$
12.15 - 1.00	T.N. Venkataramana	Generators for Arithmetic Groups
1.00 - 2.30	Lunch Break
2.30 - 3.15	Peter Sin	Oppositeness in Buildings and simple modules for finite groups of Lie type
3.20 - 4.05	Discussion Session
4.05 - 4.25	Coffee Break
4.25 - 5.10	Mark Pankov	To be announced
	Coffee Break
5.25 – 6.10	N.S.N. Sastry	Some equations over finite fields related to simple groups of Suzuki and Ree types

August 31, 2010 (Tuesday)

Chair Person: Pre-lunch Session: Gernot Stroth

Chair Person: Post-lunch Session: Antonio Pasini

9.30 - 10.15	Bertrand Remy	Recent results in the theory of twin building lattices
10.20 - 11.05	Radha Kessar	On blocks of finite groups whose defect groups are elementary abelian of order 8
11.05 - 11.25	Coffee Break
11.25 - 12.10	Kay Magaard	Representations of Unitriangular Groups
12.15 - 1.00	Murali K. Srinivasan	Symmetric chains, Gelfand-Tsetlin chains, and the Hypercube
1.00 - 2.30	Lunch Break
2.30 - 3.15	Leo Storme	The use of blocking sets in Galois geometries
3.20 - 4.05	Discussion session
4.05 - 4.25	Coffee Break
4.25 - 5.10	Bhaskar Bagchi	On characterizing designs by their codes
	Coffee Break

On 30^th and 31^st August, we would have discussion sessions (during 3.20 – 4.05 pm) on the possible problems for future research, the speakers and the participants may suggest. During the session, the proposer may kindly state the problem, briefly discuss its importance, and invite remarks from the participants.

I invite all of you to participate actively in this important aspect of this conference.