Study group on Toric and Spherical Varieties

This working seminar takes place on Mondays from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm in Room 4214-03 at the CUNY Graduate Center. All are welcome.

Our goal is to study Toric and Spherical Varieties.

Schedule of upcoming talks

Date	Speaker	Title/topic	References
February 8		Organizational meeting.
February 29	Robert Donley (QCC)	An overview of highest weight theory (of GL(n) in particular)
March 7	Bart Van Steirteghem (MEC)	The Luna-Vust Theory of Spherical Embeddings, I	[K,P]
March 14	Bart Van Steirteghem (MEC)	The Luna-Vust Theory of Spherical Embeddings, II	[K,P]
March 21	Bart Van Steirteghem (MEC)	The Luna-Vust Theory of Spherical Embeddings, III	[K,P]
March 28	Bart Van Steirteghem (MEC)	Combinatorial classification of spherical varieties
April 4	Fei Ye (QCC)	Okounkov bodies: introduction
April 11	Fei Ye (QCC)	Okounkov bodies: introduction, part 2
April 18	Robert Donley (QCC)	An overview of highest weight theory, part 2
May 2	Bart Van Steirteghem (MEC)	Okounkov bodies on spherical varieties, part 1
May 9		cancelled
May 16	Bart Van Steirteghem (MEC)	Okounkov bodies on spherical varieties, part 2

References

• [CLS] D. Cox, J. Little, & H. Schenck. (2011). Toric Varieties, GSM 124, American Mathematical Society.
• [K] F. Knop (1991). The Luna Vust Theory of Spherical Embeddings [link]
• [P] G. Pezzini (2010). Lectures on spherical and wonderful varieties [link]
• [P] N. Proudfoot. (2010). Toric Varieties, Lecture Notes for Fall 2010 course. [pdf]

Organized by
Robert W. Donley, Jr. (rdonley "at-sign" qcc "dot" cuny "dot" edu)
Bart Van Steirteghem (bartvs "at-sign" mec "dot" cuny "dot" edu)

Previous working seminars: Fall 2015 Spring 2015 Spring 2013 Fall 2012 Spring 2012 Fall 2011 Spring 2011

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Last update: 10 May 2016