Week of February 11, 2024
Week of February 11, 2024
| Tuesday, February 13 Transformation Groups Seminar Time: 10:30 Room: MC 204 Speaker: Larry So (Western) Title: Toric varieties of fans I will define toric varieties associated to fans and give a few examples. |
Algebraic Geometry Time: 15:30 Room: MC 107 Speaker: Brett Nasserden (Western) Title: WAG: Projective Varities |
| Friday, February 16 Graduate Seminar Time: 16:30 Room: MC 107 Speaker: Tao Gong (Western) Title: What is the space of conjugacy classes? When G is a topological group, G acts on itself by conjugation. This leads to the natural question: what is the quotient space of conjugacy classes? In this talk, we will work out the answer to this question in the special case when G is a connected compact simple Lie group – the space is contractible! |