The seminars in Mathematical Modeling and Analysis are aimed at researchers, employees, and students.
This week's seminar is given by Noémie Vlaanderen Oldenzeel, Umeå University.
Title: Blow-ups of toric varieties
Abstract: We build up the foundations of the field of toric varieties. Next we define resolutions of singularities and show that resolutions of on toric varieties come from refinement of fans. Furthermore we construct a toric variety from a polytope, we consider crepant resolutions and describe them in terms of subdivision of the polytope. And if time permits, we consider how changing this subdivision via flops changes the resolution.
