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SUMMARY:Classification Results in the Theory of Buildings - Richard Weiss 
 (Tufts)
DTSTART:20081125T170000Z
DTEND:20081125T180000Z
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CONTACT:Helen Innes
DESCRIPTION:Spherical buildings are certain geometrical structures canonic
 ally associated with a large class of simple groups. In this talk we will 
 describe buildings purely in graph theoretical terms and give a brief over
 view of Tits’s classification results for spherical buildings.  Time per
 mitting\, we will also make a few remarks about the Bruhat-Tits classifica
 tion of affine buildings and its connection to the theory of absolutely si
 mple algebraic groups defined over a local field.
LOCATION:Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, Wilberforc
 e Road\, Cambridge
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