Buildings, Finite Geometries and Groups

<p>1. On Characterizing Designs By Their Codes (B. Bagchi).- 2. The Geometry of Extremal Elements in a Lie Algebra (A.M. Cohen).- 3. Properties of a 27-dimensional Space of Symmetric Bilinear Forms Acted on by E₆ (R. Gow).- 4. On the Geometry of Global Function Fields, the Riemann-Roch Theorem, and Finiteness Properties of S-arithmetic Groups (R. Gramlich).- 5. Some Remarks on Two-Transitive Permutation Groups as Multiplication Groups of Quasigroups (G. Hiss, F. Lübeck).- 6. Curve Complexes Versus Tits Buildings: Structures and Applications (Lizhen Ji).- 7. On Isotypies Between Galois Conjugate Blocks (R. Kessar).- 8. Representations of Unitriangular Groups (T. Le, K. Magaard).- 9. Hermitian Vernonesean Caps (J. Schillewaert, H. Van Maldeghem).- 10. On a Class of c.F₄-geometries (A. Pasini).- 11. Buildings and Kac-Moody Groups (B. Rémy).- 12. Some Equations Over Finite Fields Related to Simple Groups of Suzuki and Ree Types (N.S. Narasimha Sastry).- 13. Oppositeness in Buildings and Simple Modules for Finite Groups of Lie Type (P. Sin).- 14. Modular Representations, Old and New (B. Srinivasan).- 15. The Use of Blocking Sets in Galois Geometries and in Related Research Areas (V. Pepe, L. Storme).- 16. Quadratic Actions (F.G. Timmesfeld).- Problem Set.-</p>