Location: Science Ctr 411 (FAS)
Meeting Time: Mon 12:15-13:30; Fri 11:45-13:00
Textbook:
Toric Varieties by David Cox, John Little, and Hal Schenck.
Contact information:
Man Wai (Mandy) Cheung
Office hour: Tue 13:30-14:30
Send me an email to schedule a chat if you cannot make these office hours.
Announcement:
- Feb 8 (Friday) class switch to Feb 7 (Thurs) noon - 13:15 at SC 411
- Schedule between Mar 11 to Apr 2: Mar 12 @116, Mar 14; Mar 27; Apr 2 @116, noon-1:15pm
- Apr 8 class switch to Apr 10
Schedule of the class:
Jan 28: The 4 definitions of affine toric varietiesFeb 4: Cones
Feb 7: Properties of affine toric varieties
Feb 11: Projective toric varieties
Feb 15: Polytopes
Feb 18: Fans and orbit-cone correspondence
Feb 22: polytopes and projective toric varietes
Feb 25: toric morphisms; complete and proper
Mar 1: Weil divisors; Cartier divisors
Mar 4: sheaf of a torus-invariant divisor; Quotient constructions of toric varieties
Mar 8: Quotient constructions of toric varieties; total coordinate ring
Mar 12: Ideal-variety correspondence; homogenization and polytope
Mar 14: Cluster varieties
Mar 27: Quintic mirror family
Apr 1: Sheaves and line bundles; basepoint free divisors
Apr 5: Ample and basepoint free divisors; polytope & fan correspondence
Apr 10: Nef and Mori Cones
Apr 12: Hirzebruch surface
Apr 15: Hirzebruch surface
Apr 19:
Apr 22:
Apr 24: