Se­mi­nar So­phus Lie : Darm­stadt, Oc­to­ber 5/6, 2007 (spe­ci­al ses­si­on on the oc­ca­si­on of K.H. Hof­mann's 75th an­ni­ver­sa­ry)

Slides of J.D. Lawson's talk

Friday, October 5, 07:

9:30 - 10:20
W.A.F. Ruppert (Wien)/B. Breckner (Cluj-Napoca)
On Lie semigroup analogs of parabolic subgroups

11:00 - 11:50
K. Spindler (Wiesbaden)
Parameter estimation on manifolds

14:00 - 14:50
K. Strambach (Erlangen)
Topological loops on spheres

15:00 - 15:50
M. Stroppel (Stuttgart)
Automorphism groups of small nilpotent Lie algebras

16:30 - 17:20
J.D. Lawson (Baton Rouge)
Fifty years of topological algebra

Saturday, October 6, 07:

9:00 - 9:50
I. Agricola (Berlin)
Special holonomy groups in non-integrable Riemannian geometry

10:00 - 10:50
D. Burde (Wien)
Minimal faithful representations of reductive Lie groups

11:20 - 12:10
R. Gramlich (Darmstadt)
Lattices in locally compact totally disconnected groups

14:30 - 15:20
W. Woitynski (Warsaw)
Remarks on the Hilbert version of the invariant subspace problem

15:30 - 16:20
G. Hofmann (Halifax)
Weyl groups and universal reflection groups

16:30 - 17:20
R. Löwen (Braunschweig)
Actions of the universal cover of SL(2,R) in topological geometry