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Mathematics

Newton-Okounkov Bodies

Spring 2018

 

Date:February 2, 2018
Time:1:00pm
Location:624 BLOC
Speaker:Frank Sottile, TAMU
Title:Mixed volumes and an extension of intersection theory of divisors

Date:February 9, 2018
Time:1:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
Title:Mixed volumes and an extension of intersection theory of divisors

Date:February 16, 2018
Time:1:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
Title:Mixed volumes and an extension of intersection theory of divisors

Date:February 23, 2018
Time:1:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Taylor Brysiewicz, Texas A&M University
Title:Mixed volumes and Bernstein theorem

Date:March 2, 2018
Time:1:00pm
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.

Date:March 9, 2018
Time:1:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Aleksandra Sobieska, Texas A&M University
Title:Khovanskii proof of Kushnirenko theorem

Date:March 23, 2018
Time:1:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
Title:Newton-Okounkov bodies: definition and first properties

Date:March 30, 2018
Time:1:30pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
Title:Newton-Okounkov bodies: more properties

Date:April 6, 2018
Time:1:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Elise Walker, Texas A&M University
Title:Polyhedral homotopy

Date:April 20, 2018
Time:1:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Xiaoxian Tang, Texas A&M University
Title:A family of quasisymmetric models