Promotor (Thesis Advisor) of the Ph.D. thesis of

  1. Veerle De Smet (RUG, May 19, 1994)
    Substructures of Finite Classical Generalized Quadrangles and Hexagons
    Co-advisor: J. A. Thas
    Current occupation: TPM co-ordinator of the administrative services, Sidmar

  2. Iris Bloemen (RUG, November 27, 1995)
    Substructures and Characterizations of Finite Generalized Polygons
    Co-advisor: J. A. Thas

  3. Kristel Van Steen (RUG, May 21, 1996)
    Non-spherical Tits-Buildings of Rank 3
    Current occupation:  Statistical Consultant, Censtat

  4. Stefaan Delcroix (RUG, June 19, 2000)
    Non-Finitary Locally Finite Simple Groups
    Co-advisor: U. Meierfrankenfeld
    Current occupation: Assistant Professor, California State University

  5. Leen Kuijken (RUG, September 8, 2000)
    Axiomatiek en Modellen voor Vaag Incidentiemeetkunden
    Co-advisor: E. E. Kerre
    Current occupation: Manager Sales & Presales, SimCorp

  6. Leen Brouns (RUG, November 28, 2000)
    Characterizations of (Substructures of) Generalized Quadrangles and Hexagons
    Co-advisor: J. A. Thas
    Current occupation: Assistent, Hogeschool Gent

  7. Valery Vermeulen (RUG, August 24, 2001)
    Twin Buildings: Characterization and Classification results
    Co-advisor: B. Muhlherr
    Current occupation: Music Production and Sound Design, Tamuraj

  8. Eline Govaert (RUG, August 30, 2001)
    Some Contributions to the (Geometric) Theory of Generalized Polygons
    Current occupation: Lector, Arteveldehogeschool Gent

  9. Koen Thas (RUG, March 29, 2002)
    Automorphisms and Combinatorics of Finite Generalized Quadrangles
    Current occupation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ghent University

  10. Tom De Medts (UGent, January 9, 2003)
    Moufang Quadrangles: A Unifying Algebraic Structure, and some Results on Exceptional Quadrangles
    Current occupation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ghent University

  11. Cristina Tonesi (UGent, May 27, 2005)
    Distance-regular geometries and some group theoretical characterisations of (0, 2)-geometries
    Current occupation: Lector, Arteveldehogeschool Brugge

  12. An De Wispelaere (UGent, December 16, 2005)
    Ovoids and spreads of finite classical generalized hexagons and applications
    Current occupation: Research Assistant, Ghent University

  13. Joris De Kaey (UGent, February 17, 2005)
    Characterizations of finite classical polygons admitting large Moufang subpolygons

Member of the Ph.D.-jury of

  1. Leo Storme (RUG, July 4, 1991)
  2. Serge Lehman (U.L.B., January 8, 1997)
  3. Dimitri Leemans (U.L.B., September 10, 1998)
  4. Rieuwert Blok (TU Delft, May 18, 1999)
  5. Dirk Van Heule (RUG, September 8, 1999)
  6. Michel Lavrauw (TU Eindhoven, May 23, 2001)
  7. Mario Delanote (RUG, September 7, 2001)
  8. Francis Gardeyn (RUG, December 14, 2001)
  9. Ralf Gramlich (TU Eindhoven, May 23, 2002)
  10. Deirde Luyckx (UGent, December 13, 2002)
  11. Sandy Ferret (UGent, April 3, 2003)
  12. Bavo Langerock (UGent, April 23, 2003)
  13. Patrick Govaerts (UGent, April 25, 2003)
  14. Sara Cauchy (UGent, May 12, 2003)
  15. Elisabeth Kuijken (UGent, May 23, 2003)
  16. Jan De Beule (UGent, May 20, 2004)
  17. Glad Deschrijver (UGent, November 9, 2004)
  18. Pieter Vandecasteele (UGent, December 17, 2004)
  19. Stefaan De Winter (UGent, December 22, 2004)
  20. Nikias De Feyter (UGent, February 18, 2005)
  21. Kristel Van Steen (LUC, Hasselt, December 20, 2005)/li>
  22. Pierre-Emanuelle Caprace (ULB, December 20, 2005)

Organiser of the following international conferences

  1. "A Tribute to J. A. Thas", Ghent, May 12 - 13, 1994
    co-organiser: F. De Clerck
    editor of the corresponding proceedings in the Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin 1, No 3 (1994), p. 299 - 468 (co-editor: F. De Clerck).
  2. "Tits Buildings and Related Geometries", Ghent, March 21 - 22, 1996
    co-organisers: F. Buekenhout, F. De Clerck and J. A. Thas.
  3. Section "Buildings" of the conference AMS-BeNeLux Meeting Mathematics, Antwerp, May 22, 1996
    co-organizer: Mark A. Ronan.
  4. "Finite Geometry and Combinatorics", Third international conference at Deinze, May 18 - 24, 1997
    co-organisers: A. Beutelspacher, A. Blokhuis, F. Buekenhout, F. De Clerck, J. Doyen, W. Haemers, J. W. P. Hirschfeld and J. A. Thas
    editor of the corresponding proceedings in the Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin.
  5. "(Moufang) Polygons and (Twin) Buildings", Ghent, June 21 - 25, 1999.
  6. "40ste Nederlands Mathematisch congres - Belgian mathematical Conference", Tilburg 16 - 17 April, 2004 (as the Belgian representative).
  7. "Incidence Geometry", International conference at La Roche-en-Ardenne, May 23 - 29, 2004
    co-organisers: F. De Clerck, J. A. Thas and L. Storme
    editor of the corresponding proceedings in the Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin
  8. Member of the Advisory Board of the "Com2MaC Conference on Association Schemes, Codes and Designs", Pusan Nat. Univ., Pusan, Korea, 19 - 23 July 2004.
  9. "Mathematics, Quo Vadis?", an international Colloquium in the Palace of the Academies, April 27, 2005
    co-organisers: E. Colenbunders, W. Van Assche and N. Veraverbeke.
  10. "BeNeLuxFra Conference in Mathematics", A joint conference of the mathematical societies of Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and France, Ghent, May 20 - 22, 2005
    co-organiser: B. Hoogewijs
    editor of the corresponding proceedings in the Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin.
  11. "Buildings, Groups & Algebras", a conference in honour of Jacques Tits' 75th birthday, Ghent, October 14 - 15, 2005
    co-organiser: Bernhard Mühlherr.

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