Tom De Medts @ Ghent University
Research group
I am leading the research group Algebra of the Department of Mathematics: Algebra and Geometry of Ghent University.Short CV
- First name
- Tom
- Middle names
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George Gardy
- Last name
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De Medts
- Birthday
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February 9, 1980
- Nationality
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Belgian
Degrees
- Master degree
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Mathematics, Ghent University, July 2000
- PhD
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Science – Mathematics, Ghent University, January 2003
- PhD thesis: "Moufang quadrangles : A unifying algebraic structure, and some results on exceptional quadrangles"
- PhD supervisors: Hendrik Van Maldeghem (Ghent University, Belgium) & Richard M. Weiss (Tufts University, Medford, USA)
Selected publications
- Tom De Medts, Louis Rowen, Yoav Segev, Primitive 4-generated axial algebras of Jordan type, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 152 (2024), no. 2, 537–551.
- Tom De Medts, Michiel Van Couwenberghe, Non-associative Frobenius algebras for simply laced Chevalley groups, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 374 (2021), no. 12, 8715–8774.
- Lien Boelaert, Tom De Medts, Anastasia Stavrova, Moufang sets and structurable division algebras, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 259 (2019), no. 1245, 90 pp.
- Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Tom De Medts, Trees, contraction groups, and Moufang sets, Duke Math. J. 162 (2013), no. 13, 2413-2449.
- Tom De Medts, Yoav Segev, Katrin Tent, Special Moufang sets, their root groups, and their μ-maps, Proc. London Math. Soc. 96 (2008), no. 3, 767-791.
- Tom De Medts, Richard M. Weiss, Moufang sets and Jordan division algebras, Math. Ann. 335 (2006), no. 2, 415-433.
- Tom De Medts, An algebraic structure for Moufang quadrangles, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 173 (2005), no. 818, 99 pp.
Projects
- BOF research project "Vertex operator algebras and axial decomposition algebras" (2023–2027)
- EOS FWO-FNRS research project "High-dimensional expanders and Kac-Moody-Steinberg groups" (2022–2026)
- FWO research project "Cohomological invariants for structurable algebras" (G.0040.18) (2018–2022)
- UGent responsible for Horizon 2020 project "OpenDreamKit"
(H2020-EU.1.4.1.3 ref. 676541, Open Digital Research Environment Toolkit for the Advancement of Mathematics) (2015–2019) - FWO research project "Automorphism groups of locally finite trees" (G.0110.12) (2012–2016)
- FWO research project "Moufang sets" (G.0140.09) (2009–2013)
- FWO research project "Dualities in discrete geometrical structures" (G.0086.06), as co-promoter (2006–2010)
Orcid
Videos
- Jordan algebras and 3-transposition groups, Banff, May 7, 2015
- Geometries from inner ideals of structurable algebras, Banff, August 27, 2019
- Tits–Kantor–Koecher Lie Algebras and 5 x 5-Gradings, Paris, December 11, 2023
- Primitive 4-generated axial algebras of Jordan type, online, December 18, 2023
MathOverflow
More information
- Publication list
- PhD students
- Conferences that I have been (co-)organizing
- Special lectures
- Editorial work for scientific journals