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October 14, 2010
Thursday, October 14
Colloquium
Time: 15:30
Speaker: Igor Dolgachev (Michigan)
Title: "Configuration spaces of real and complex spheres"
Room: MC 107

Abstract: Abstract: I will discuss configuration spaces of complex and real spheres modulo the inversive space transformations. A classical construction of S. Lie and F. Klein allows one to treat these spaces as configuration spaces of points in the projective space of one dimension higher modulo the orthogonal transformations. Some special cases can be described very explicitly using subvarieties in toric varieties.