Groups and geometries. Proceedings of the conference, Siena, Italy, September 1-7, 1996 (Q1379275)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Aschbacher, Michael G.; Smith, Stephen D.}, Quasithin groups, 1-7 [Zbl 0895.20013] \textit{Baumeister, Barbara; Stroth, Gernot}, The non-canonical gluings of two affine spaces, 9-28 [Zbl 0899.51001] \textit{Blok, Rieuwert J.; Brouwer, Andries E.}, The geometry far from a residue, 29-38 [Zbl 0899.51005] \textit{Buekenhout, Francis; Dehon, Michel; Leemans, Dimitri}, On flag-transitive incidence geometries of rank 6 for the Mathieu group \(M_{12}\), 39-54 [Zbl 0899.51006] \textit{Cooperstein, Bruce N.}, On a connection between ovoids on the hyperbolic quadric \({\mathfrak Q}^+(10,q)\) and the Lie incidence geometry \(E_{6,1}(q)\), 55-64 [Zbl 0903.51003] \textit{Gottschalk, Harald; Leemans, Dimitri}, The residually weakly primitive geometries of the Janko group \(J_1\), 65-79 [Zbl 0902.51006] \textit{Guralnick, Robert M.; Hoffman, Corneliu}, The first cohomology group and generation of simple groups, 81-89 [Zbl 0894.20039] \textit{Huybrechts, Cécile; Pasini, Antonio}, A characterization of the Hall-Janko group \(J_2\) by a \(c. L^*\)-geometry, 91-106 [Zbl 0902.51007] \textit{Ivanov, Alexander A.}, Affine extended dual polar spaces, 107-121 [Zbl 0899.51007] \textit{Johnson, Norman L.}, Derivable nets may be embedded in nonderivable planes, 123-144 [Zbl 0905.51001] \textit{Liebeck, Martin W.}, Regular orbits and the \(k(GV)\)-problem, 145-148 [Zbl 0899.20003] \textit{Lucchini, Andrea}, Generating minimally transitive groups, 149-153 [Zbl 0897.20002] \textit{Seitz, Gary M.}, Maximal subgroups of finite exceptional groups, 155-161 [Zbl 0894.20022] \textit{Shalev, Aner}, Subgroup structure, fractal dimension, and Kac-Moody algebras, 163-176 [Zbl 0913.17014] \textit{Shult, Ernest}, Aspects of buildings, 177-188 [Zbl 0917.51018] \textit{Steinbach, Anja Ingrid}, Generalized quadrangles arising from groups generated by abstract transvection groups, 189-199 [Zbl 0901.20033] \textit{Thas, Josef A.}, Embeddings of geometries in finite projective spaces: A survey, 201-214 [Zbl 0899.51004] \textit{van Bon, John; Cuypers, Hans}, Affine extensions of near hexagons related to the spin module of type \(B_3\), 215-229 [Zbl 0917.51017] \textit{Van Maldeghem, Hendrik}, Ovoids and spreads arising from involutions, 231-236 [Zbl 0901.51007] \textit{Yoshiara, Satoshi}, The Borel-Tits property for finite groups, 237-249 [Zbl 0913.20011] \textit{Zara, François}, Generalized reflection groups. I: Constructing the algebra, 251-261 [Zbl 0901.20028]