Organizers
Dave Anderson (Ohio State), Klaus Altmann (FU Berlin), Megumi Harada (McMaster), Allen Knutson (Cornell), and Hannah Markwig (Tübingen).
Invited Speakers
Michel Brion (Institut Fourier),
Tom Coates (Imperial),
Maria Angelica Cueto (Ohio State),
Sandra Di Rocco (KTH),
Daniel Erman (Wisconsin),
June Huh (Princeton),
Nathan Ilten (Simon Fraser),
Eric Katz (Ohio State),
Kiumars Kaveh (Pittsburgh),
Valentina Kiritchenko (HSE),
Alex Küronya (Frankfurt),
Thomas Lam (Michigan),
Martina Lanini (Edinburgh),
Chris Manon (George Mason),
Sam Payne (Yale),
Kristian Ranestad (Olso),
Helge Ruddat (Mainz),
Frank Sottile (Texas A&M),
David Speyer (Michigan),
Jenia Tevelev (UMass Amherst),
Christine Berkesch Zamaere (Minnesota).
Schedule
| Monday, 3 October2016 | |
| 08:30—09:20 | Registration |
| 09:20—09:30 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 09:30—10:30 | Okounkov bodies and tropical geometry by Eric Katz |
| 10:30—11:00 | Break |
| 11:00—12:00 | Newton-Okounkov bodies and Khovanskii bases by Chris Manon |
| 12:00—14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00—15:00 | Newton-Okounkov polytopes of Bott-Samelson varieties by Valentina Kiritchenko |
| 15:00—16:00 | Break |
| 16:00—17:00 | Syzygies of abelian surfaces and Newton-Okounkov bodies by Alex Küronya |
| 17:00— | Reception |
| Tuesday, 4 October 2016 | |
| 09:00—10:00 | Some new four-dimensional Fano manifolds by Tom Coates |
| 10:00—10:45 | Break |
| 10:45—11:45 | K-Stability for Fano varieties with torus action by Nathan Ilten |
| 11:45—13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30—14:30 | Spherical tropicalization by Jenia Tevelev |
| 14:30—15:00 | Break |
| 15:00—16:00 | Grobner theory and tropical geometry on spherical varieties by Kiumars Kaveh |
| 16:00—16:15 | Break |
| 16:15—17:15 | Rational quartic spectrahedra by Kristian Ranestad |
| Wednesday, 5 October 2016 | |
| 09:00—10:00 | Convex visualisation of toric vector bundles by Sandra Di Rocco |
| 10:00—10:30 | Break |
| 10:30—11:30 | Convexity and categorification in Boij-Soederberg theory by Daniel Erman |
| 11:30—11:45 | Break |
| 11:45—12:45 | Free complexes on smooth toric varieties by Christine Berkesch Zamaere |
| 12:30—14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00— | Excursion |
| Thursday, 6 October 2016 | |
| 09:00—10:00 | Canonical forms for polytopes and amplituhedra by Thomas Lam |
| 10:00—10:45 | Break |
| 10:45—11:45 | Tropical linear spaces, Grassmannians, and matroids by David Speyer |
| 11:45—13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30—14:30 | Irrational toric varieties by Frank Sottile |
| 14:30—15:00 | Break |
| 15:00—16:00 | Scissors rings and geometric invariants by Sam Payne |
| 16:00—16:15 | Break |
| 16:15—17:15 | Tropical geometry via logarithmic geometry by Helge Ruddat |
| Friday, 7 October 2016 | |
| 09:30—10:30 | Degenerate flags and Schubert varieties by Martina Lanini |
| 10:30—11:00 | Break |
| 11:00—12:00 | Indecomposable commutative algebraic groups by Michel Brion |
| 12:00—14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00—15:00 | Anticanonical tropical del Pezzo cubic surfaces by Maria Angelica Cueto |
| 15:00—16:00 | Break |
| 16:00—17:00 | Enumeration of points, lines, planes, etc. by June Huh |
Registration
Please register on the Fields Institute website by first selecting “Registration Form” and then selecting the “Workshop on Convexity in Algebraic Geometry”. There is a registration fee of $25CAD. The deadline for applications for financial support was Friday, 8 July 2016.
Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 