Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

The goal of this talk is to show that Bruhat-Tits buildings can be investigated with analytic geometry. After introducing the theory of Bruhat-Tits buildings we show that they can be embedded in a natural way into Berkovich analytic flag varieties. The image of the building is contained in an open subset which in the case of projective space is Drinfeld's well-known p-adic upper half plane. In this way we can compactify buildings in a natural way.