UREM-ULB :
Unité de Recherche sur l’Enseignement des Mathématiques

An international conference on

"Buekenhout
Geometry" will be held in Ghent (Belgium)
on Thursday September 20th and Friday
September 21st.

Organizers are Bernhard
Muehlherr, Jef A. Thas and Hendrik Van
Maldeghem

The conference is organized in honour of
Francis Buekenhout on the occasion of his
75th birthday and focusses on geometry,
combinatorics and group theory related to
the work of this distinguished
mathematician.

To name a few topics :
Buekenhout-Metz unitals, Buekenhout-Shult
spaces, Buekenhout diagrams, Buekenhout
geometries.

The programme looks as follows.

Thursday September 2012,

Lecture Room
"Emmy Noether", S25, Campus "De
Sterre", Krijgslaan 281.
 9:00 Coffee and thee
 9:50 Welcome
 10:00 Arjeh Cohen (Eindhoven) : "Riemann
surface models and regular maps"
 10:55 Coffee break
 11:10 Antonio Pasini (Siena) :
"Non-projective embeddings of generalized
quadrangles"
 12:10 Bernhard Muehlherr (Giessen) : "Titsindices
for affine buildings"
 13:00 Lunch break
 15:00 Dimitri Leemans (Auckland) :
"Geometries constructed from the Suzuki
simple groups"
 15:55 Coffee break
 16:10 Koen Thas (Gent) : "From buildings to
hyperstructures, and back"
 17:10 Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Louvainla-
Neuve) : "Specimens from a zoology of
simple groups"
 19:30 Social Dinner

Friday 21 September 2012,

Lecture Room
"Emmy Noether", S25, Campus "De
Sterre", Krijgslaan 281.
 9:00 Coffee and thee
 9:30 Ernest Shult (Kansas) : "On ’Tweaking’
Classical Theorems"
 10:25 Coffee break
 10:45 Guglielmo Lunardon (Napels) : "Linear
sets : genealogy and applications"
 11:45 Peter Cameron (London) :
"Geometries, chamber systems, and
designs"
 12:45 Lunch break
 14:30 Jef Thas (Gent) : "Non-linear
embeddings of affine planes in projective
spaces"
 15:25 Coffee break
 15:45 Hendrik Van Maldeghem (Gent) :
"Twisted A2 and E6"
 16:30 James Hirschfeld (Sussex) : "Curves
over Finite Fields

Registration

 Please register for the conference by
September 15th simply by sending an
email to Hendrik (hvm@cage.UGent.be).

Cost

 There is no conference fee. Hotel prices in
Ghent vary roughly from 65 EUR to 100 EUR
for single rooms, and from 80 EUR to 110
EUR for a double room (per night). There
are also a number of bed&breakfasts
available. More details can be found on the
list of hotels.

Support
 There is some limited support for young
people, so feel free to ask
hvm@cage.UGent.be.

Social dinner
 There will be a dinner on Thurday night in
honour of Francis and Monique. If you want
to attend this dinner, please send an email
to Hendrik (hvm@cage.UGent.be) no later
than September 15. The details will be sent
later, but we estimate the cost between 50
and 60 EUR per person.

Travel information
Click here.

Looking forward to seeing you in Ghent
soon,
The organizers,
 Bernhard Muehlherr
 Jef A. Thas
 Hendrik Van Maldeghem

http://cage.ugent.be/ hvm/ConfBuek.html