Bochum (Germany)
Monday, February 15, 2016 - Friday, February 19, 2016

The workshop is intended to bring together experts in the field in connection with the notion of G-complete reducibility. We aim to concentrate on recent advances by means of geometric invariant theory, cohomology, and the theory of buildings.

held in conjunction with
Floer Center for Geometry
Department of Mathematics, RUB

Speakers

Stephen Donkin (York)
Oliver Goodbourn (Bochum)
Ralf Köhl (Giessen)
Paul Levy (Lancaster)
Martin Liebeck (London)
Alexander Lytchak (Cologne)
Ben Martin (Aberdeen)
George McNinch (Tufts)
Bernhard Mühlherr (Giessen)
Alexander Premet (Manchester)
Guy Rousseau (Nancy)
Jean-Pierre Serre (Paris)
David Stewart (Newcastle)
Donna Testerman (Lausanne)
Adam Thomas (Bristol)

Conference location

Beckmanns Hof

Social Event

For Wednesday afternoon we are organizing a guided tour (English language) of the Zeche Zollverein in Essen, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The tour will take place on Wednesday 17 February 2016 from 15:00 - 17:00.
There will be a bus service from Ruhr-University to Zeche Zollverein. Please indicate when registering for the meeting by email whether you want to attend the tour of Zeche Zollverein.

Conference Dinner

There will be a conference dinner at the restaurant Livingroom on Wednesday 17 February 2016 at 19:00.

Please indicate when registering for the meeting by email whether you want to attend the dinner.
The cost for the dinner is 50 Euro which should be paid during formal registration on
Monday morning, 15 February 2016.

Registration

There will be no registration fee. However, we request that you register for the meeting by the 7th of January, 2016. Please indicate whether you want to attend the conference dinner and/or the guided tour.

Hotel Information

We have reserved a number of hotel rooms at
Bochum Ibis Zentrum which are held until the 7th of January, 2016. When booking there yourself, please mention the keyword "reducibility" in order to benefit from university rates.

Organized by

Michael Bate
Oliver Goodbourn
Gerhard Röhrle
David Stewart

Funded by:

DFG SPP 1388 "Representation Theory"
EPSRC Network Grant "Anglo-Franco-German Representation Theory"

Participants

Nils Amend (Bochum)
Michael Bate (York)
Barbara Baumeister (Bielefeld)
Martin Bender (Wuppertal)
Magdalena Boos (Wuppertal)
Stéphanie Cupit-Foutou (Bochum)
Stephen Donkin (York)
Luuk Disselhorst (York)
Harry Geranios (York)
Oliver Goodbourn (Bochum)
Maike Gruchot (Bochum)
Benen Harrington (York)
Katerina Hristova (Warwick)
Karina Kirkina (Warwick)
Ralf Köhl (Giessen)
Mikko Korhonen (Lausanne)
Paul Levy (Lancaster)
Martin Liebeck (London)
Alastair Litterick (Auckland)
Alexander Lytchak (Cologne)
Gunter Malle (Kaiserslautern)
Ben Martin (Aberdeen)
Samuel Martin (York)
George McNinch (Tufts)
Claus Mokler (Wuppertal)
Bernhard Mühlherr (Giessen)
Alexey Petukhov (Manchester)
Alexander Premet (Manchester)
Markus Reineke (Wuppertal)
Gerhard Röhrle (Bochum)
Guy Rousseau (Nancy)
Deividas Sabonis (Munich)
Anne Schauenburg (Bochum)
Damian Sercombe (London)
Jean-Pierre Serre (Paris)
David Stewart (Newcastle)
Donna Testermann (Lausanne)
Adam Thomas (Bristol)