Transformation Groups Seminar

Speaker: Larry So (Western)

"Toric varieties of fans"

Time: 10:30

Room: MC 204

I will define toric varieties associated to fans and give a few examples.

Algebraic Geometry

Speaker: Brett Nasserden (Western)

"WAG: Projective Varities"

Time: 15:30

Room: MC 107

Graduate Seminar

Speaker: Tao Gong (Western)

"What is the space of conjugacy classes?"

Time: 16:30

Room: MC 107

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!