This conference is the 28th edition of the Buildings conference. The major theme of this edition of the international conference is the deep interaction between algebra and incidence geometry in its various guises — in particular, we want to focus on geometric aspects of algebra, and algebraic theories underlying incidence geometries. Some of the main topics of the conference are:

• Generalized polygons and related geometries.
• Buildings of higher rank.
• Geometries and groups of Lie-type.
• Simple groups and their geometries.
• Rank one groups and Moufang sets.
• Algebraic and geometric aspects of the Freudenthal-Tits magic square.
• Algebraic varieties related to incidence geometries.

• Automorphism groups of incidence geometries, and geometric group actions.
• Algebraic groups and Kac-Moody groups.
• Graph- (and in particular tree-) theoretic properties of incidence geometries.
• Topological aspects of buildings and related geometries.
• Computational aspects of the algebraic and combinatorial theory behind incidence geometries of low rank.

Because of the interplay with many other fields of mathematics, a wide variety of ideas and methods will come together at the meeting. The conference will give the opportunity to research faculty and young researchers in algebra and incidence geometry to learn about the latest developments in the main sub-areas, and explore different visions and directions for future work.

• The conference takes place from Monday 19th of September until Thursday 22nd of September.
• There will be invited talks (of 60 minutes) and contributed talks (of 30 minutes).
• The conference fee is €150. This includes the coffee breaks, a reception on Monday and the conference dinner on Wednesday.
• Financial support is available for a limited number of participants.
• This conference will take place at Ghent University, campus "Ledeganck".

• Registration will be available soon.

• Peter Abramenko, University of Virginia
• Hans Cuypers, TU Eindhoven
• Anneleen De Schepper, Ghent University
• Sasha Ivanov, Imperial College London
• Linus Kramer, University of Munster
• James Parkinson, University of Sydney
• Antonio Pasini, University of Siena
• Burkard Polster, Monash University (tbc)
• Markus Stroppel, University of Stuttgart
• Richard Weiss, Tufts University

Ghent University
Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
IRMP Institut de Recherche en Mathématique et en Physique
UCLouvain