Events by date

Changho Han, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Brief Introduction to General MMP"

Before we dive into the less ventured area of horospherical MMP, it would be nice to first understand how the general MMP works in order to prove MMP results in horospherical settings. In that regard, I will present some motivations behind the definition of MMP singularities, and give a general overview of the general MMP.

This seminar will be held jointly online and in person:

Leo Jimenez, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Not pfaffian"

James Freitag has shown that the j-function is not Pfaffian using the model theory of differentially closed fields. We will work though his paper, entitled "Not pfaffian".

MC 5417

Francisco Villacis, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Integrable systems on smooth projective toric varieties"

Let X be a smooth projective toric variety of complex dimension n. We can endow X with a symplectic form coming from the Fubini-Study form on projective space. We will show that we have an action of a real n-torus on X which is Hamiltonian and gives rise to an integrable system on X.

This seminar will be held both online and in person: