Newton-Okounkov Bodies

Date: March 2, 2018

Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM

Location: BLOC 624

Speaker: Emanuele Ventura, Texas A&M University

Title: SAGBI bases and Grassmannians

Abstract: In this talk, we introduce the notion of SAGBI (or canonical) basis for a subalgebra. This will be employed to give toric degenerations of Grassmannians.