University of Sydney Algebra Seminar

Connor Simpson

Friday 17 October, 12-1pm, in SMRI Seminar Room (Macleay Building A12 Room 301)

Reflections on tori

Toric varieties are a rich, yet tractable class of spaces, whose geometry can be understood via the combinatorics of polytopes. We'll give an introduction to these spaces from the algebreo-geometric and topological viewpoints, then explain some recent work that describes quotients of toric varieties by finite reflection groups (joint with Colin Crowley & Tao Gong).