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Richard M. Weiss |
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William Walker Professor of Mathematics
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Tufts University Mathematics Department
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Dr.rer.nat. Technische Universität Berlin |
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Group theory, especially buildings and other geometric aspects of group theory.
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Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham (UK)
Humboldt Research Prize (2003)
86th Kuwait Foundation Lecture, Cambridge (2008)
Mercator Guest Professor, University of Giessen (winter semester 2012-13) |
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richard.weiss@tufts.edu
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| More Info: |
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Department Profile Page
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Books:
"Moufang Polygons" (co-author: Jacques Tits), Springer Monographs in Mathematics, 2002, pp. 535.
"The Structure of Spherical Buildings," Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 140.
"Quadrangular Algebras," Mathematical Notes 46, Princeton University Press, 2005, pp.140.
"The Structure of Affine Buildings," Annals of Mathematics Studies 168, Princeton University Press, 2008, pp.365.
"Descent in Buildings" (co-authors: Holger P. Petersson and
Bernhard Mühlherr), Annals of Mathematics Studies 190, Princeton University Press, 2015, pp.336.
Recent articles:
Moufang quadrangles of type E_6 and E_7, J. Reine Angew. Math. (Crelle) 590 (2006), 189-226.
Moufang sets and Jordan division algebras (co-author: Tom De Medts), Math. Annalen 335 (2006), 415-433.
On the action of the Hua group in special Moufang sets (co-author: Yoav Segev), Math. Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 144 (2008), 77-84.
Non-discrete Euclidean buildings for the Ree and Suzuki groups (co-authors: Petra Hitzelberger and Linus Kramer), Amer. J. Math., 132 (2010), 1113-1152.
The group E_6(q) and graphs with a locally linear group of automorphisms (co-author:
Vladimir Trofimov), Math. Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 148 (2010), 1-32.
The norm of a Ree group (co-author: Tom De Medts ), Nagoya Math. J., 199 (2010), 15-41.
On the existence of certain affine buildings of type E_6 and E_7, J. Reine Angew. Math. (Crelle) 653 (2011), 135-147.
The Kneser-Tits conjecture for groups with Tits-index
E_{8,2}^{66} over an arbitrary field (co-authors: R. Parimala
and Jean-Pierre Tignol), Transf. Groups, 17 (2012), 209-231.
Compact totally disconnected Moufang buildings (co-authors:
Theo Grundhöfer, Linus Kramer and Hendrik Van Maldeghem),
Tohoku Math. J. 64 (2012), 333-360.
Webs of Lagrangian tori in projective symplectic manifolds (co-author: Jun-Muk Hwang),
Invent. Math. 192 (2013), 83-109.
Local identification of spherical buildings and finite simple groups of Lie type (co-authors:
Ulrich Meierfrankenfeld and Gernot Stroth), Math. Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 154 (2013), 527-547.
Receding polar regions of a spherical building and the center conjecture (co-author:
Bernhard Mühlherr), Ann. Inst. Fourier 63 (2013), 479-513.
Coarse equivalences of Euclidean buildings (co-author: Linus Kramer), Adv. Math. 253 (2014) 1-49.
Galois involutions and exceptional groups (co-author:
Bernhard Mühlherr), L'Enseign. Math., to appear.
Rhizospheres in spherical buildings (co-author:
Bernhard Mühlherr), Math. Annalen, to appear.
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