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Sean Monahan, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"The effective cone for projective horospherical varieties"

I will start working through Brion’s paper “Variétés sphériques et théorie de Mori” on spherical MMP. Specifically, I plan to cover the first half of section 3, with emphasis on horospherical varieties. We should at least see what the cone NE(X) looks like for any projective horospherical variety X.

This seminar will be held jointly online and in person:

Christine Eagles, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"A Note on Geometric Theories of Fields, Part II"

Will Johnson and Jinhe Ye have shown equivalence conditions on expansions of very slim fields, strongly geometric fields and algebraically bounded fields. As a consequence, we get a one-cardinal results for definable sets and positive dimensional interpretable set. We will work though this paper, entitled "A Note on Geometric Theories of Fields".

MC 5417

Robert Cornea, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"A basic Introduction to Higgs Bundles and Vafa-Witten Bundles"