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Tzu-Jan Li ( Academia Sinica )
2024-06-20  14:00-16:00 
Room 202, Astronomy and Mathematics Building

This is a first course in the theory of spherical and affine buildings. Concrete examples will be given to illustrate the terminologies, and applications will be discussed to show how the theory of buildings could be useful in other mathematical theories.

References:
[1] J.-P. Serre, arbres, amalgames, SL_2. Astérisque 46 (1977)
[2] P. Garrett, Buildings and Classical Groups. Chapman & Hall (1997)
[3] C. W. Curtis, G. I. Lehrer and J. Tits, Spherical Buildings and the Character of the Steinberg representation. Invent. math. 58 (1980)