March 18, 2011
<p>Basics of GIT, part II (continued) -- Bart Van Steirteghem
<br>I will finish the <a href="110311.html">overview</a> of the basics of Geometric Invariant Theory and state the Hilbert-Mumford criterion

<p>Variation of quotients: first examples, part I -- Anupam Bhatnagar
<br>Following Marzia Polito [C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 321 (1995), no. 12, 1577–1582, <a href="http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=1367810">MathSciNet</a>] we will describe the possible GIT quotients of the diagonal action of SL(2) on (P^1)^n.</p>