On January 09th, the Colloquium of the CRC-TRR 358 will take place at the Department of Mathematics, Paderborn. The speaker is Prof. Petra Schwer (Heidelberg).
Program:
14:30 - 15:00 Reception coffee / tea
15:00 - 16:00 Prof. Petra Schwer (Heidelberg)
16:00 Buffet
Location:
The talk will be held in lecture room D2. The reception and the buffet will take place in room J2.138.
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Prof. Petra Schwer (Heidelberg):
Title: Buildings, galleries and beyond
Abstract: Originally introduced as analogs of symmetric spaces for groups over non-archimedian fields buildings have proven useful in various areas by now. In this talk I will introduce (Bruhat-Tits) buildings, highlight some combinatorial toolkits to study them. We will see how the geometry connects with the groups acting on buildings. This will relate to Grassmannians and flag varieties as well as to combinatorics of Coxeter groups.
