Using toric geometry

03/11/2024
Currently, I am teaching a course on toric varieties at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig. If you wish to attend remotely, please send me an e-mail. 


Registration:

https://www.mis.mpg.de/events/event/using-toric-geometry

Short description: 

Toric varieties form a well understood class of algebraic varieties. They often arise as the image of a monomial map. These lectures offer an introduction to basic toric geometry and its applications in mathematics and other sciences. Covered topics include toric ideals, semigroup algebras, Cox rings, discriminants and algebraic moment maps. We will also discuss standard constructions of toric varieties from cones, polytopes and fans, and the role of toric varieties in convex optimization, algebraic statistics, and equation solving. 

Prerequisites:

Basic algebraic geometry: affine/projective varieties and their coordinate rings.

Tentative schedule: 

Online attendance is possible for all lectures. Below, (Online) indicates that I will give the lecture remotely, using a tablet. All lectures will be given or broadcasted in room G3 10 at MPI MiS. 

  1. Wednesday April 3, 10-12AM. Monomial maps and toric ideals. Exercises: Thursday April 4, 10AM.
  2. Wednesday April 10, 10-12AM. Cones and affine toric varieties. Exercises: Thursday April 11, 10AM.
  3. Friday April 19, 10-12AM (Online). Polytopes and projective toric varieties. Exercises: Wednesday April 24, 10AM.
  4. Tuesday April 30, 1.30-3.30PM. Toric boundaries. Exercises: Tuesday April 30, 4PM. 
  5. Tuesday May 7, 10-12AM. Positive toric geometry. Exercises: Wednesday May 8, 1.30PM.
  6. Friday May 10, 10-12AM. Toric geometry of linear programming. Exercises: Friday May 10, 1.30PM. 
  7. Friday May 17, 1.30-3.30PM. Fans and gluing toric varieties. Exercises: Friday May 17, 4PM. 
  8. Tuesday May 21, 10-12AM (Online). Maps between toric varieties. Exercises: Tuesday May 21, 1.30PM. 
  9. Wednesday May 29, 10-12AM (Online). Divisors on toric varieties. Exercises: Wednesday May 29, 1.30PM. 
  10. Wednesday June 5, 10-12AM. The Cox ring of a toric variety. Exercises: Thursday June 6, 10AM. 
  11. Thursday June 13, 10-12AM. Solving sparse polynomial equations. Exercises: Thursday June 14, 10AM.
  12. Wednesday June 19, 2-4PM. Discriminants and resultants. Exercises: Thursday June 20, 10AM.
  13. Wednesday June 26, 10-12AM. Toric varieties in algebraic statistics. Exercises: Thursday June 27, 10AM.

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