Course Announcement Math 256B

Course Announcement


UC Berkeley, Spring Semester 2000

Math 256B: Algebraic Geometry - Toric Varieties


Instructor: Bernd Sturmfels (bernd@math, Evans 701)

Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00-12:30
Place: 65 Evans Hall

We continue our introduction to modern algebraic geometry with a study of toric varieties. Toric varieties involve polyhedral geometry and combinatorics,
and they have numerous applications both within mathematics and outside. This class will be fairly independent from Math 256A and it might be of independent interest to advanced graduate students, in particular, those working in geometry, representation theory or mathematical physics.

Most of the lectures will follow the required text book

William Fulton: Introduction to Toric Varieties, Princeton University Press, 1993.

or the following expository article written by David Cox:

Recent developments in toric geometry. Algebraic Geometry - Santa Cruz 1995, 389--436, Proc. Symp. Pure Math., 62, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, 1997.