Introductory Workshop on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry

August 15 - 19, 2016, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute

Description

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 Szendroi (Oxford).

* to be confirmed

Schedule

Monday, August 15th, 2016
08:30 to 09:15	Registration
09:15 to 09:30	Welcome and Introduction
09:30 to 10:20	Toric varieties I Milena Hering, University of Edinburgh Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:20 to 11:00	Break
11:00 to 11:50	Toric Degenerations and Moduli I Valery Alexeev (Georgia) Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:50 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:50	Toric Degenerations and Moduli II Valery Alexeev (Georgia) Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:50 to 16:00	Break
16:00 to 16:50	Combinatorial Aspects of Moduli Space of Curves Angela Gibney (Georgia) Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
17:00 to 19:00	Reception

Tuesday, August 16th, 2016
09:00 to 09:50	Tropical geometry of curves I Sam Payne, Yale University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
09:50 to 10:20	Break
10:20 to 11:10	Combinatorics of Hilbert schemes I Gregory G. Smith, Queen's University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:10 to 11:30	Break
11:30 to 12:20	Schubert calculus I Allen Knutson, Cornell University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
12:20 to 14:30	Lunch
14:30 to 15:20	Partition functions and threefolds I Balazs Szendroi, University of Oxford Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:20 to 16:00	Break
16:00 to 18:00	Poster blitz

Wednesday, August 17th, 2016
09:00 to 09:50	An invitation to Newton–Okounkov bodies I Megumi Harada, McMaster University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
09:50 to 10:20	Break
10:20 to 11:10	Combinatorics in geometric representation theory I Joel Kamnitzer (Toronto) Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:10 to 11:30	Break
11:30 to 12:20	Cluster algebras and varieties I David Speyer (Michigan) Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
12:20 to 13:45	Lunch
13:45 to 19:00	Excursion

Thursday, August 18th, 2016
09:00 to 09:50	Partition functions and threefolds II Balazs Szendroi, University of Oxford Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
09:50 to 10:20	Break
10:20 to 11:10	Schubert calculus II Allen Knutson, Cornell University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:10 to 11:30	Break
11:30 to 12:20	Toric varieties II Milena Hering, University of Edinburgh Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
12:20 to 14:30	Lunch
14:30 to 15:20	Combinatorial aspects of the moduli space of curves II Angela Gibney (Georgia) Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:20 to 16:00	Break
16:00 to 16:50	Combinatorics of Hilbert schemes II Gregory G. Smith, Queen's University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Friday, August 19th, 2016
09:30 to 10:20	An invitation to Newton–Okounkov bodies I Megumi Harada, McMaster University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:20 to 11:00	Break
11:00 to 11:50	Tropical geometry of curves II Sam Payne, Yale University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:50 to 14:30	Lunch
14:30 to 15:20	Combinatorics in geometric representation theory II Joel Kamnitzer (Toronto) Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:20 to 16:00	Break
16:00 to 16:50	Cluster algebras and varieties II David Speyer (Michigan) Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Registered Participants

Name	Affiliation
Hiraku Abe	Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute
Tair Akhmejanov	Cornell University
Klaus Altmann	Free University of Berlin
Ahmed Ashraf	Western University
Karl Thomas Baath Sjoblom	Cornell University
Spencer Backman	University of Bonn
Sanghoon Baek	KAIST
Arend Bayer	University of Edinburgh
Martha Maria Bernal Guillen	Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas
Christin Bibby	Western University
Barbara Bolognese	The Fields Institute
Madeline Brandt	University of California Berkeley
David Bruce	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jim Bryan	University of British Columbia
Taylor Brysiewicz	Texas A&M University
Mahir Bilen Can	Tulane University
Federico Castillo	University of California Davis
Wouter Castryck	Ghent University
Maria Virginia Catalisano	Scuola Politecnica - University of Genoa
Renzo Cavalieri	Colorado State University
Raymond Cheng	Columbia University
Linda Chen	Swarthmore College
Man Wai Cheung	Institute for Advanced Studies
Karl Christ	Roma Tre University
Daniel Corey	Yale University
David Cox	Amherst College
Peter Crooks	University of Toronto
Angelica Cueto	The Ohio State University
Maria Donten-Bury	Free University of Berlin
Theo Douvropoulos	University of Minnesota
Balazs Elek	Cornell University
Laura Escobar	The Fields Institute
Netanel Friedenberg	Yale University
Naoki Fujita	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Maciej Galazka	University of Warsaw
Federico Galetto	McMaster University
Adam Gardner	University of Toronto
Mehdi Garrousian	Universidad de los Andes
Katie Gedeon	University of Oregon
Angela Gibney	University of Georgia
Julia Gibson	McMaster University
Maksymilian Grab	University of Warsaw
Elena Guardo	Università di Catania
Alexander Guterman	Lomonosov Moscow State University
Iva Halacheva	Lancaster University
Changho Han	Harvard University
Kangjin Han	Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST)
Megumi Harada	McMaster University
Corey Harris	Florida State University
Anthony Harrison	Kent State University
Miho Hatanaka	Osaka City University
Milena Hering	University of Edinburgh
Ben Hersey	Queen's University
Zhuang He	Northeastern University
Johannes Hofscheier	Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Tatsuya Horiguchi	Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute
Daoji Huang	Cornell University
Muqiao Huang	York University
Mark Huibregtse	Skidmore College
Irit Huq-Kuruvilla	Columbia University
Nathan Ilten	Simon Fraser University
Grace Ingermanson	University of Michigan
Kelly Jabbusch	University of Michigan - Dearborn
Armin Jamshidpey	Western University
Joachim Jelisiejew	University of Warsaw
Daniel Joo	Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics
Jaiung Jun	Binghamton University
Lars Kastner	Free University of Berlin
Kiumars Kaveh	University of Pittsburgh
Tyler Kelly	University of Cambridge
Young Rock Kim	Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Allen Knutson	Cornell University
Kathlén Kohn	Technical University of Berlin
Tomaz Kosir	University of Ljubljana
Robert Krone	Queen's University
Hideya Kuwata	KINDAI UNIVERSITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE
Jonathan Lai	University of Texas at Austin
Sara Lamboglia	University of Warwick
Alexander Lemmens	University of Leuven
Yoav Len	The Fields Institute
Li Li	Oakland University
Pak Hin Li	Cornell University
HyunBin Loh	Pohang University of Science and Technology
Daniel Lowengrub	University of California Berkeley
Diane Maclagan	University of Warwick
Timothy Magee	University of Texas at Austin
Nikolay Malkin	Yale University
Cameron Marcott	University of Waterloo
Steffen Marcus	The College of New Jersey
Stephen Melczer	University of Waterloo
Manuel Merida Angulo	University of Ghent
Georg Merz	Mathematisches Institut
Kalina Mincheva	Yale University
Mohsen Mollahajiaghaei	Western University
Pinaki Mondal	College of the Bahamas
Takahiro Nagaoka	Kyoto University
Kris Nairn	College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
Joohan Na	Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Evan Nash	The Ohio State University
Amir Nasr	UNB
Benjamin Nill	Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Bernt Ivar Utstøl Nødland	University of Oslo
Seonjeong Park	Osaka City University
Sam Payne	Yale University
Oksana Pichugina	Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics
Ata Firat Pir	Texas A&M University
Nicholas Proudfoot	University of Oregon
Kevin Purbhoo	University of Waterloo
Ibad ur Rahman	Kohat university of science and technology kohat (kust)
Jenna Rajchgot	University of Saskatchewan
Rohini Ramadas	University of Michigan
Harry Richman	University of Michigan
Pooya Ronagh	University of British Columbia
Tian Sang	RMIT University
Bernd Schober	The Fields Institute
Alexandra Seceleanu	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Kristin Shaw	The Fields Institute
Jifeng Shen	Yale University
YONG-SU SHIN	SUNGSHIN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY
Jessica Sidman	Mount Holyoke College
Robert Silversmith	University of Michigan
Gregory G. Smith	Queen's University
Frank Sottile	Texas A&M University
David Speyer	University of Michigan
Andrew Staal	Queen's University
Alexander Stathis	University of Illinois at Chicago
Bernd Sturmfels	University of California Berkeley
Joshua Swanson	University of Washington
Balazs Szendroi	University of Oxford
Nicola Tarasca	The Fields Institute
Zach Teitler	Boise State University
montserrat teixidor i bigas	Tufts University
Ashleigh Thomas	Duke University
Howard Thompson	University of Michigan - Flint
Cheng Yu Tong	University of Toronto
Bach Tran	University of Edinburgh
Will Traves	U.S. Naval Academy
Paolo Tripoli	University of Warwick
Martin Ulirsch	University of Bonn
Jeremy Usatine	Yale University
Dinesh Valluri	Western University
Adam Van Tuyl	McMaster University
Yitzhak Weit	University of Haifa
Caryn Werner	Allegheny College
Robert Williams	Texas A&M University
Anna-Lena Winz	Free University of Berlin
Jaroslaw Wisniewski	University of Warsaw
Alexander Woo	University of Idaho
Li Ying	Texas A&M University
Haozhi Zeng	Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute
Qiao Zhou	University of California Berkeley