ABOUT

This year's edition of the Buildings workshop will be hosted in UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) in honor of Bernhard Mühlherr's 60th birthday. In addition to a selection of invited talks by Bernhard's friends and collaborators, there will be room for a (limited) number of contributed talks, in the spirit of the annual Buildings workshops.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Alice Devillers The University of Western Australia Imprimitive rank 3 groups and partial linear spaces
Barbara Baumeister Universität Bielefeld Extended Weyl groups
Bertrand Rémy École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Recent developments in analysis on buildings
Hendrik Van Maldeghem Universiteit Gent Diagrams
Inna Capdeboscq The University of Warwick Generation and Frattini subgroups
James Parkinson The University of Sydney The displacement spectrum of automorphisms of spherical buildings
Linus Kramer Universität Münster Far out
Matthias Grüninger Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Regular subgroups in 2-sharp permutation groups
Michael Cuntz Leibniz Universität Hannover Simplicial arrangements
Ralf Köhl Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Filtrations and lattices on buildings
Richard Weiss Tufts University Tits-diagrams and Tits-hexagons
Timothée Marquis Université Catholique de Louvain Presentation and uniqueness of Kac-Moody groups over local rings
Torben Wiedemann Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau F4-gradings of groups and Lie algebras
ABSTRACTS

The list of abstracts can be found here.

SCHEDULE

All invited talks will take place in lecture room CYCL 01. For the contributed talks, there will be parallel sessions in lecture rooms CYCL 02 and CYCL 03, as indicated below.

(This schedule is still subject to changes.)

07:30
08:30
09:30
10:30
11:30
12:30
13:30
14:30
15:30
16:30
17:30
18:30
19:30

8

Mon

Registration

13:30 – 14:30

Hendrik Van Maldeghem

14:30 – 15:20

Petit CYCL 02

Forte CYCL 03

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30

Herron CYCL 02

Busch CYCL 03

16:30 – 17:00

Loué CYCL 02

Kahl CYCL 03

17:00 – 17:30

Ali CYCL 02

Das CYCL 03

17:30 – 18:00

Reception

18:00 – 19:30

9

Tue

Alice Devillers

9:30 – 10:20

Coffee break

10:30 – 11:00

Torben Wiedemann

11:00 – 11:50

Marchionna CYCL 02

Vast CYCL 03

12:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

12:30 – 14:30

Inna Capdeboscq

14:30 – 15:20

Giuzzi CYCL 02

Sykes CYCL 03

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30

Piterman CYCL 02

Valentiner-Branth CYCL 03

16:30 – 17:00

Smet CYCL 02

Corveleyn CYCL 03

17:00 – 17:30

10

Wed

Women-only breakfast

07:45 – 09:15

Michael Cuntz

9:30 – 10:20

Coffee break

10:30 – 11:00

James Parkinson

11:00 – 11:30 — Zoom

Barbara Baumeister

11:40 – 12:30

Lunch break

12:30 – 14:30

Free afternoon

14:30 – 18:30

Conference Dinner
@Brasserie RN

19:00 –

11

Thu

Bertrand Rémy

9:30 – 10:20

Coffee break

10:30 – 11:00

Matthias Grüninger

11:00 – 11:50

Leibtag CYCL 02

Tornier CYCL 03

12:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

12:30 – 14:30

Linus Kramer

14:30 – 15:20

Schillewaert CYCL 02

Weidmann CYCL 03

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30

Piedade CYCL 02

Carter CYCL 03

16:30 – 17:00

Tranchida CYCL 02

Giersbach CYCL 03

17:00 – 17:30

12

Fri

Timothée Marquis

9:30 – 10:20

Coffee break

10:30 – 11:00

Ralf Köhl

11:00 – 11:30 — Zoom

Richard Weiss

11:40 – 12:30

End of the conference

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

The list of registered participants can be found here.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
  • The buildings workshop takes place from Monday, September 8 until Friday, September 12.
  • All lectures will take place in Lecture Rooms CYCL 01/02/03, building "Marc de Hemptinne", Chemin du Cyclotron 2, Louvain-la-Neuve.
  • Participants (except invited speakers) are asked to arrange accommodation on their own. We have prebooked rooms in two different hotels in Louvain-la-Neuve: In either case, mention the keyword "UCL Buildings 2025" in your communication with the hotel.
  • Warning: Some participants are receiving emails from "Global Travel" related to travel and/or accommodation. This is a scam.
  • There will be a registration fee of €100, covering the coffee breaks. This fee is waived for organizers, invited speakers and for young participants in need of financial support.
  • Here is a list with a few suggestions for the free time on Wednesday afternoon.
CONFERENCE PICTURE
Scientific committee

Dimitri Leemans (ULB)
Jonas Deré (KULeuven)
Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (UCLouvain)
Sebastian Bischof (Uni Paderborn)
Stefan Witzel (JLU Gießen)
Tom De Medts (UGent)

Organizing committee

Alex Loué (UCLouvain)
François Thilmany (KULeuven)
Oussama Bensaid (UCLouvain)
Julie De Saedeleer (ULB)
Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (UCLouvain)
Robynn Corveleyn (UCLouvain)
Sebastian Bischof (Uni Paderborn)
Stefan Witzel (JLU Gießen)
Tom De Medts (UGent)

SPONSORS


Ghent University — Faculty of Sciences
Université Catholique de Louvain
DFG Heisenberg-Programm

       

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