Eighth international conference on geometry (Q1299932)

The paper contains abstracts of talks presented in the ``Research'' section of the conference. The authors and the titles of their talks are: \textit{Maks A. Akivis} and \textit{Vladislav V. Goldberg}, Algebraic aspects of web geometry; \textit{Victor Alexandrov}, Sufficient conditions for the extensibility of an \(n\)-th order flex of polyhedra; \textit{Benedetta Alinovi}, Extension of local structures; \textit{Walter Benz}, Characterizations of distance functions in Hilbert spaces; \textit{Graciela Silvia Birman}, Crofton style formulas for pure manifolds; \textit{Andrea Blunck}, A chain-geometric proof of a theorem on translation planes; \textit{Johannes Böhm}, On the role of Schlaefli's differential formula in connection with the continuation of the volume functional; \textit{Peter Braß}, On equilateral sets in normed spaces; \textit{Ulrich Brehm}, A universality theorem for realization spaces of maps; \textit{Malgorzata Buba-Brzozowa} and \textit{Miroslaw Brzozowy}, The decomposition of any projectivity into some special central collineations; \textit{Antonella Cabras} and \textit{Ivan Kolář}, Second order connections on some functional bundles; \textit{Yair Censor}, Geometric insight helps: A guided tour of projection methods for finding a common point of a family of closed convex sets; \textit{Dietmar Cieslik}, Using Dvoretzky's theorem in network design; \textit{Gábor Fejes Tóth}, Thinnest covering of a circle by eight or nine congruent circles; \textit{Johannes Gmainer}, Nuclei of normal rational curves; \textit{Hans Havlicek}, Giuseppe Veronese and Ernst Witt -- neighbours in PG(5,3); \textit{A.Heppes}, Expandability radius and density of a lattice packing; \textit{Thomas Honold}, Homogeneous weights and friendly modules; \textit{Wen-ling Huang}, Null geodesic preserving transformations of strongly causal spacetimes; \textit{Alfred Inselberg}, Visualizing multidimensional geometry with applications to multivariate problems; \textit{Jan Jakobowski}, Double homotheties in half-ordered Minkowski planes; \textit{Franz B. Kalhoff}, Epimorphisms and valuations of projective planes; \textit{Helmut Karzel}, Characterization of invariant reflection structures and \(K\)-loops by webs; \textit{Rüstem Kaya}, General equation for taxicab conics and their classification; \textit{Arnfried Kemnitz}, Newton numbers of compact discs; \textit{Hubert Kiechle}, On \(K\)-loops; \textit{J. Kincses}, On the determination of convex sets from their angle functions; \textit{Gyorgy Kiss}, Illumination problems and codes; \textit{Mikhail Klin}, Strongly regular Cayley graphs on 96 vertices; \textit{Benno Klotzek}, About newer results to the discontinuous motion groups of different degree with respect to different geometries; \textit{Linus Kramer}, Classification results in topological geometry; \textit{Hans-Joachim Kroll}, Transitive groups of axial homologies of hyperbola structures; \textit{Friedrich Manhart}, On surfaces in affine space with degenerate affine focal surfaces; \textit{Horst Martini}, On median problems; \textit{Andrzej Matraś}, Hyperbola structures over half-ordered fields with transitive groups of axial homologies; \textit{Maria Moszyńska}, Looking for selectons of star bodies; \textit{E. Munarini} and \textit{Norma Zagaglia Salvi}, On the rank polynomial of the lattice of ideals of the fence; \textit{Victor Pambuccian}, A logical reading of characterisations of mappings by mild hypotheses; \textit{Alexander Rosa}, Some recent results in colouring Steiner triple systems, \textit{Uwe Schnell} and \textit{J. M. Wills}, Densest packings of more than three \(d\)-spheres are nonplanar; \textit{Ralph-Hardo Schulz}, Equivalence of check digit systems over the symmetry group of the regular pentagon; \textit{Helmut Siemon}, Finite Moulton structures of order \(p\); \textit{H. Stachel}, Remarks on the Grünbaum framework; \textit{Konrad J. Swanepoel}, The Fermat-Toricelli problem and a balancing game; \textit{Katrin Tent}, Generalized polygons in model theory; \textit{Momme Johs Thomsen}, Generalizations of endomorphism rings for nonabelian groups; \textit{Béla Uhrin}, The geometry of closed subgroups; \textit{Abraham A. Ungar}, The Ahlfors rotation of the Poincaré ball model of hyperbolic geometry; \textit{Gunter Weiss}, The concepts of triangle orthocenters in Minkowski planes; \textit{Bernulf Weißbach}, Constructions of counterexamples to the Borsuk conjecture; \textit{Dirk Windelberg}, 3D-modelling for rough surfaces in material sciences; \textit{Krzysztof Witczynski}, On generalized involutions; \textit{Herbert Zeitler}, Fractal geometry between medicine and art.