Geometry Seminar
Date: November 11, 2019
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: BLOC 628
Speaker: M. Michalek, MPI Leipzig
Title: Singularities of secant and tangential varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties
Abstract: We will show applications of ideas from statistics to study classical objects in algebraic geometry. A change of coordinates, inspired by computation of cumulants, reveals a toric structure on secant variety of any Segre-Veronese variety. We will show how to exploit this structure to study the singularities.