Browsing Workshops 2008 by MSC "51"

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    • 0804 - Buildings: Interactions with Algebra and Geometry 

      [OWR-2008-3] Workshop Report 2008,3 (2008) - (20 Jan - 26 Jan 2008)
      The focus of the conference was on buildings and their applications. Buildings are combinatorial structures (metric cell complexes) which may be viewed as simultaneous generalizations of trees and projective spaces. There ...

    • 0817 - Groups and Geometries 

      [OWR-2008-20] Workshop Report 2008,20 (2008) - (20 Apr - 26 Apr 2008)
      This was one of series of Oberwolfach workshops on Groups and Geometries which has taken place every 3 years for some time. There were three main inter-related themes: buildings and their relationship with algebraic groups; ...

    • 0847b - Mini-Workshop: Symmetric Varieties and Involutions of Algebraic Groups 

      [OWR-2008-53] Workshop Report 2008,53 (2008) - (16 Nov - 22 Nov 2008)
      This conference brought together experts from the areas of algebraic groups, Kac–Moody groups, Tits buildings, and symmetric varieties. The main theme presented and discussed during the workshop was the geometry of involutions ...

    • 0843a - New Perspectives in Stochastic Geometry 

      [OWR-2008-47] Workshop Report 2008,47 (2008) - (19 Oct - 25 Oct 2008)
      The workshop was devoted to the discussion and exploration of recent developments in stochastic geometry. Two main themes were new results and methodology in classical stochastic geometry and allocation and matching ...