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
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
4.
Stefaan Delcroix (RUG, June 19, 2000)
Non-Finitary Locally Finite Simple Groups
Co-advisor: U. Meierfrankenfeld
5.
Leen Kuijken (RUG, September 8, 2000)
Axiomatiek en Modellen voor Vaag Incidentiemeetkunden
Co-advisor: E. E. Kerre
6.
Leen Brouns (RUG, November 28, 2000)
Characterizations of (Substructures of) Generalized Quadrangles and
Hexagons
Co-advisor: J. A. Thas
7.
Valery Vermeulen (RUG, August 24, 2001)
Twin Buildings: Characterization and Classification results
Co-advisor: B. Muhlherr
8.
Eline Govaert (RUG, August 30, 2001)
Some Contributions to the (Geometric) Theory of Generalized
Polygons
9.
Koen Thas (RUG, March 29, 2002)
Automorphisms and Combinatorics of Finite Generalized Quadrangles
10.
Tom De Medts (UGent, January 9, 2003)
Moufang Quadrangles: A Unifying Algebraic Structure, and some
Results on ExceptionalQuadrangles
11.
Cristina Tonesi (UGent, May 27, 2005)
Distance-regular geometries and some group theoretical
characterisations of (0,2)-geometries
12.
An De Wispelaere (UGent, December 16, 2005)
Ovoids and spreads of finite classical generalized hexagons and
applications
13.
Joris De Kaey (UGent, February 17, 2005)
Characterizations of finite classical polygons admitting large
Moufang subpolygons
14.
Valerie Ver Gucht (UGent, June 16, 2006)
Bislim
point-line
geometries of gonality 3
15.
Kris Coolsaet
(UGent, July 4, 2006)
An algebraic approach to
the perfect Ree-Tits generalized octagons and related geometries
16.
Fabienne Haot
(UGent, December 22, 2006)
Moufang Sets and
Applications
17.
Koen Struyve
(UGent, June 26, 2009)
A Study of Buildings of Low Rank.
Co-advisor: K. Thas
18.
Elizabeth Callens
(UGent, June 24, 2013)
Moufang Sets: Polarities, Mixed Moufang Sets and
Inclusions
Co-advisor: T. De Medts
19.
Lien Boelaert
(UGent, June 27, 2013)
From the Moufang World to the Structurable World, and Back Again
20.
Anneleen
De Schepper
(UGent, May 17, 2019)
Characterizations and
Classifications in the Theory of Parapolar Spaces
Co-advisor: J. Schillewaert
21.
Michiel
Van Couwenberghe
(UGent, September 18, 2020)
Decompomposition
Algebras and Axial Algebras
Co-advisor: T.
De Medts
22.
Johannes
Roth
(UGent, September 17, 2021)
Mixed Buildings of Type
F4 and Related Moufang
Quadrangles
Co-advisor: B.
De Bruyn
23.
Jens
Bosschaert
(UGent, October 22, 2021)
Expanding the Universe
of (Restricted) Universal Groups over Richt-Angles Buildings
Co-advisor: T. De Medts
24.
Jeroen Meulewaeter
(UGent, December 10, 2021)
Bridging Exceptional Geometries and Algebras using Inner Ideals of
Lie Algebras
Co-advisor: T. De Medts
25.
Simon
Rigby
(UGent, September 16, 2022)
Cohomological Invariants
of Structural Algebras
Co-advisor: T.
De Medts
26.
Paulien
Jansen
(UGent, October 30, 2023)
Tits Sets of Index Type
Co-advisor: B.
Mühlherr
27.
Magali
Victoor
(UGent, March 26, 2024)
Constructions and
Automorphisms of Exceptional Buildings
Co-advisor: B.
De Bruyn
28.
Yannick
Neyt
(UGent, Fevruary 24, 2025)
Kangaroos in Spherical
Buildings
Co-advisor: K.
Thas
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)
22.
Pierre-Emanuelle Caprace (ULB,
December 20, 2005)
23.
Morislava
Cimráková
(UGent, May 19, 2006)
24.
Els
Moens (UGent, February 23, 2007)
25.
Koen
Maes (UGent, April 16, 2007)
26.
Valérie
De Witte (UGent, June 15, 2007)
27.
Annelies
Vroman
(UGent, October 31, 2007)
28.
Geert
Vernaeve
(UGent, November 27, 2008)
29.
Jeroen
Schillewaert
(UGent, February 5, 2009)
30.
Manoochehr
Babanezhad
(UGent, April 27, 2009)
31.
Simon
Huggenberger
(UGent, June 25, 2009)
32.
Yun
Shi (UGent, September 14, 2009)
33.
Viera
Zemanova
(UGent, September 25, 2009)
34.
Jan
Busa (UGent, November 6, 2009)
35.
Geertrui
Van
De Voorde (UGent, April 20, 2010)
36.
Anja
Hallez
(UGent, April 26, 2010)
37.
Tom
Melange (UGent, May 17, 2010)
38.
Nele
Vandaele (UGent, May 21, 2010)
39.
Sam
Sanders
(UGent, May 26, 2010)
40.
Bart
Van Gasse (UGent, June 25, 2010)
41.
Aude
Nguyen
(ULBruxelles, September 15, 2010)
42. Frédéric Vanhove (UGent, April 7, 2011)
43.
Çiçek
Güven (TU Eindhoven, January 25, 2012)
44.
Oliver
Krauss (TU Braunschweig, February 3, 2014)
45.
Corina
Ciobotary (UCLouvain, April 4, 2014)
46.
Yael
Fleischmann (TU Eindhoven, May 26, 2015)
47.
Thomas
Connor (ULBruxelles, July 7, 2015)
48.
Anurag
Bishnoi (UGent, December 20, 2016)
49.
Lynn
D'eer (UGent, March 7, 2017)
50.
Manual
Merida (UGent, May 19, 2017)
51.
Eric
Rijcken (UGent, June 14, 2017)
52.
Ana
Costa Silva (UGent, September 1, 2017)
53.
Karsten
Naert (UGent, October 17, 2017)
54.
Nicolas
Radu (UCLouvain, February 12, 2018)
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.
12.
“Reinhold Baer Kolloquium zur Geometrie”,
Gent, June 10, 2006
co-organizer:
T.
De Medts.
13.
“Buildings & Groups”, Gent,
May 21-25, 2007
co-organizers:
Bernhard
Mühlherr and Peter Abramenko.
14.
“Incidence Geometry & Buildings”,
Gent, February 5–10, 2012
co-organizers:
B.
De Bruyn, T De Medts, K. Thas and J. A. Thas
15.
“Buekenhout Geometry”,
a conference on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Francis
Buekenhout , Gent, 20–21 September, 2012
co-organizers:
B.
Mu ̈hlherr and J. A. Thas
16.
“The Freudenthal-Tits Magic Square”,
Colloquim in the series of ‘DAG’-Days, Gent, 19 October 2012
co-organizer:
T.De
Medts
17.
“Reinhold Baer Kolloquium zur Geometrie”,
Gent, June 10, 2006
co-organizer T. De Medts
18.
“Buildings & Groups”,
Gent, May 21-25, 2007
co-organizers
Bernhard
Mu ̈hlherr and Peter Abramenko
19.
“Incidence Geometry & Buildings”,
Gent, February 5–10, 2012
co-organizers:
B.
De Bruyn, T De Medts, K. Thas and J. A. Thas
20.
“Buekenhout Geometry”,
a conference on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Francis
Buekenhout , Gent, 20–21 September, 2012
co-organizers:
B.
Mühlherr and J. A. Thas
21.
“The Freudenthal-Tits
Magic Square”,
Colloquim in the series of ‘DAG’-Days, Gent, 19 October 2012
co-organizer:
T.De
Medts