Reading Group: Applied Toric Geometry

Together with Yue Jiao and Lucy Jiang, we are organizing a reading group about Simon Telen's book-in-progress Applied Toric Varieties.

The reading group is open to all interested students and researchers. The aim is to read Chpaters 1-5 and 7-9, discuss the content and solve exercises.

In case of questions, please write an mail to any of us: Angelo El Saliby or Yue Jiao.

Textbook

Schedule

Resuming in March, we will meet on Wednesday at 10:30 AM for a chapter session and on Friday at 10:30 AM for an exercise session. We will meet at lest once a week, on Wednesday at 2PM, for a total of six weeks.

The reading group will be held online, a Zoom link will be communicated via mail.

For each session, one or two session chairs will be assigned. They will make a summary of the assigned chapters and lead the discussion. Each session should last roughly 90 minutes.

Session chairs: You can find the assignment of session chairs at this link. Please add your name and email address so that we can send you the Zoom link. The session chair is highlighted in yellow.

Material: We will post all relevant material here.

The following is a tentative schedule (Green sessions are confirmed, times are CEST):

Week 1

November, 12th at 2PM: Chapters 1 and 2; Exercises 1.1.9, 1.2.9, 1.3.8, 2.1.3, 2.3.8, 2.4.10
Session chairs: Lucy Jiang and Yue Jiao

Week 2

November, 19th at 2PM: Meeting canceled due to public holiday in Saxony
November, 26th at 2PM: Chapters 3; Exercises 3.1.11, 3.1.12, 3.2.2, 3.4.3, 3.5.3, 3.5.16, 3.5.22
Session chairs: Angelo El Saliby and Otto Schmidt

Week 3

December, 3rd at 2PM: Chapters 4; Exercises 4.2.4, 4.4.12, 4.5.11
Session chairs: Thomas Bouchet and Carlotta Langer

Week 4

December, 10th at 2PM: Chapters 5; Exercises: here
Session chairs: George Balla and Shelby Cox

Week 5

December, 17th at 2PM: Chapters 7
Session chairs: Yue Jiao and Francesco Maria Mascarin

Week 6

March, 4th at 10:30 AM: Review session
Session chairs: Angelo El Saliby and Otto Schmidt

Week 7

March, 18th at 10:30 AM: Chapter 4 (of updated version)
Session chairs: Angelo El Saliby and Jue Jiao
March, 20th at 10:30 AM: Excercise session
Session chairs: Jue Jiao and Otto Schmidt

Week 8

April, 1st at 10:30 AM: Chapter 9 and Exercise session
Session chairs: Jue Jiao and Carlotta Langer
April, 3rd at 10:30 AM: Excercise session cacelled due to public holiday in Saxony

Week 9

April, 8h at 10:30 AM: Chapter 10
Session chairs: TBA (please fill in your availability in the spreadsheet!)
April, 10th at 10:30 AM: Excercise session
Session chairs: TBA (please fill in your availability in the spreadsheet!)

Week 10

April, 15h at 10:30 AM: Chapter 11
Session chairs: TBA (please fill in your availability in the spreadsheet!)
April, 17th at 10:30 AM: Excercise session
Session chairs: TBA (please fill in your availability in the spreadsheet!)

Week 11

April, 22h at 10:30 AM: Chapter 12
Session chairs: TBA (please fill in your availability in the spreadsheet!)
April, 24th at 10:30 AM: Excercise session
Session chairs: TBA (please fill in your availability in the spreadsheet!)

We are thankful to Otto Schmidt for providing the template for this website. Recordings are now available upon request.