Organizers
Jim Bryan (UBC), Lucia Caporaso (Rome Tre), David A. Cox (Amherst College), Diane Maclagan (Warwick), and Jessica Sidman (Mount Holyoke).
Invited Speakers
Valery Alexeev (Georgia),
Angela Gibney (Georgia),
Megumi Harada (McMaster),
Milena Hering (Edinburgh),
Joel Kamnitzer (Toronto),
Allen Knutson (Cornell),
Sam Payne (Yale),
Gregory G. Smith (Queen’s),
David Speyer (Michigan),
Balázs Szendrői (Oxford).
Schedule
| Monday, 15 August 2016 | |
| 08:30—09:15 | Registration |
| 09:15—09:30 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 09:30—10:20 | Toric varieties I by Milena Hering |
| 10:20—11:00 | Break |
| 11:00—11:50 | Toric Degenerations and Moduli I by Valery Alexeev |
| 11:50—14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00—14:50 | Toric Degenerations and Moduli II by Valery Alexeev |
| 14:50—16:00 | Break |
| 16:00—16:50 | Combinatorial aspects of the moduli space of curves I by Angela Gibney |
| 17:00— | Reception |
| Tuesday, 16 August 2016 | |
| 09:00—09:50 | Tropical geometry of curves I by Sam Payne |
| 09:50—10:20 | Break |
| 10:20—11:10 | Combinatorics of Hilbert schemes I by Gregory G. Smith |
| 11:10—11:30 | Break |
| 11:30—12:20 | Schubert calculus I by Allen Knutson |
| 12:20—14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30—15:20 | Partition functions and threefolds I by Balázs Szendrői |
| 15:20—16:00 | Break |
| 16:00— | Poster Blitz by Christin Bibby, David J. Bruce, Taylor Brysiewicz, Federico Castillo, Dan Corey, Balazs Elek, Naoki Fujita, Tatsuya Horiguchi, Joachim Jelisiejew, Yoav Len, Rohini Ramadas, Tif Shen, Robert Silversmith, Alexander Stathis, Robert Williams, and Martin Ulirsch. |
| Wednesday, 17 August 2016 | |
| 09:00—09:50 | An invitation to Newton–Okounkov bodies I by Megumi Harada |
| 09:50—10:20 | Break |
| 10:20—11:10 | Combinatorics in geometric representation theory I by Joel Kamnitzer |
| 11:10—11:30 | Break |
| 11:30—12:20 | Cluster algebras and varieties I by David Speyer |
| 12:20—13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45— | Excursion |
| Thursday, 18 August 2016 | |
| 09:00—09:50 | Partition functions and threefolds II by Balázs Szendrői |
| 09:50—10:20 | Break |
| 10:20—11:10 | Schubert calculus II by Allen Knutson |
| 11:10—11:30 | Break |
| 11:30—12:20 | Toric varieties II by Milena Hering |
| 12:20—14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30—15:20 | Combinatorial aspects of the moduli space of curves II by Angela Gibney |
| 15:20—16:00 | Break |
| 16:00—16:50 | Combinatorics of Hilbert schemes II by Gregory G. Smith |
| Friday, 19 August 2016 | |
| 09:30—10:20 | An invitation to Newton–Okounkov bodies I by Megumi Harada |
| 10:20—11:00 | Break |
| 11:00—11:50 | Tropical geometry of curves II by Sam Payne |
| 11:50—14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30—15:20 | Combinatorics in geometric representation theory II by Joel Kamnitzer |
| 15:20—16:00 | Break |
| 16:00—16:50 | Cluster algebras and varieties II by David Speyer |
Registration
Please register on the Fields Institute website by first selecting “Registration Form” and then selecting the “Introductory Workshop”. There is a registration fee of $25CAD. The deadline for applications for financial support was Friday, 27 May 2016.
Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 