Working Geometry Seminar For Graduate Students
Thurdays, 8:30-10 pm, Milner 317

Organized by J.M. Landsberg
jml@math.tamu.edu

Participants are expected to have read chapters 1-3
of Varieties in spaces of tensors (by J.M. Landsberg
and Jason Morton)  before the first meeting.

January 24: First meeting - overview, introduction
to several open problems. questions answered on
reading assignments.

Jan. 31: L. Oeding "Construction of compact
Hermitian symmetric spaces via rational maps
and applications"

Feb. 7: L. Oeding "Construction of compact
Hermitian symmetric spaces via rational maps
and applications", cont'd

Feb. 14: Z. Teitler: The ideal of an algebraic variety:
How do we know if we have it?

Feb. 21. M. Yang: Representations of the symmetric
group on d elements.

Feb. 28 Y. Qi: Representations of GL_n

March 6: Y. Qi, cont'd

March 13: spring break

March 20: Y. Ke: Linear spaces on the Segre and
fast matrix multiplication.

March 27: special lecture by N. Wallach: Introduction to quantum computing

April 3: Y. Ke cont'd

April 10: Y. Qi: Decomposition of S^d(A_1\otimes ...\otimes A_n)
as a GL(A_1)x....xGL(A_n) -module

April 17: Z. Tietler: Rank vs Border rank

May 23: Y. Qi: Moving frames for submanifolds of projective space

May 30: Y. Qi: Dual varieties