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Name: Richard Weiss
Title: William Walker Professor of Mathematics
Departmental Affiliation: Mathematics Department
Degrees: Dr.rer.nat. Technische Universität Berlin
Expertise: Group theory, especially buildings and other geometric aspects of group theory.
Major Awards: Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham (UK)
Humboldt Research Prize (2003)
E-mail: richard.weiss@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://www.tufts.edu/as/math/weiss.html
Scholarship & Research: "Moufang Polygons" (co-author: Jacques Tits), Springer Monographs in Mathematics, 2002, pp. 535.

"The Structure of Spherical Buildings," Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 140.

"Quadrangular Algebras," Mathematical Notes 46, Princeton University Press, 2005, pp.140.

"The Structure of Affine Buildings, Annals of Mathematics Studies, Princeton University Press, 2008, pp.365.

Moufang quadrangles of type E_6 and E_7, J. reine u. angewandte Math. (Crelle) 590 (2006), 189-226.

Moufang sets and Jordan division algebras (co-author: T. De Medts), Math. Annalen 335 (2006), 415-433.

On the action of the Hua group in special Moufang sets (co-author: Yoav Segev), Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 144 (2008), 77-84.

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