Workshop on Convexity in Algebraic Geometry

October 3 - 7, 2016, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

Invited Speakers
Christine Berkesch Zamaere (Minnesota),
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).

Schedule

Monday, October 3rd, 2016
08:30 to 09:20	Registration
09:20 to 09:30	Welcome and Introduction
09:30 to 10:30	Okounkov bodies and tropical geometry Eric Katz, The Ohio State University
10:30 to 11:00	Break
11:00 to 12:00	Newton-Okounkov bodies and Khovanskii bases Christopher Manon, George Mason University
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:00	Newton-Okounkov polytopes of Bott-Samelson varieties Valentina Kiritchenko, National Research University Higher School of Economics
15:00 to 16:00	Break
16:00 to 17:00	Syzygies of abelian surfaces, construction of singular divisors, and Newton-Okounkov bodies Alex Küronya, Goethe University
17:00 to 19:00	Reception at Prenup Pub

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
09:00 to 10:00	Some new four-dimensional Fano manifolds Tom Coates, Imperial College London
10:00 to 10:45	Break
10:45 to 11:45	K-Stability for Fano varieties with torus action Nathan Ilten, Simon Fraser University
11:45 to 13:30	Lunch
13:30 to 14:30	Spherical tropicalization Jenia Tevelev, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
14:30 to 15:00	Break
15:00 to 16:00	Grobner theory and tropical geometry on spherical varieties Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh
16:00 to 16:15	Break
16:15 to 17:15	Rational quartic spectrahedra Kristian Ranestad, University of Oslo

Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
09:00 to 10:00	Convex visualisation of toric vector bundles Sandra Di Rocco, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
10:00 to 10:30	Break
10:30 to 11:30	Convexity and categorification in Boij-Soederberg theory Daniel Erman, University of Wisconsin–Madison
11:30 to 11:45	Break
11:45 to 12:45	Free complexes on smooth toric varieties Christine Berkesch Zamaere, University of Minnesota
12:45 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 18:00	Excursion

Thursday, October 6th, 2016
09:00 to 10:00	Canonical forms for polytopes and amplituhedra Thomas Lam, University of Michigan
10:00 to 10:45	Break
10:45 to 11:45	Tropical linear spaces, Grassmannians, and matroids David Speyer, University of Michigan
11:45 to 13:30	Lunch
13:30 to 14:30	Irrational toric varieties Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
14:30 to 15:00	Break
15:00 to 16:00	Scissors rings and geometric invariants Sam Payne, Yale University
16:00 to 16:15	Break
16:15 to 17:15	Tropical geometry via logarithmic geometry Helge Ruddat, JGU Mainz

Friday, October 7th, 2016
09:30 to 10:30	Degenerate flags and Schubert varieties Martina Lanini, University of Edinburgh
10:30 to 11:00	Break
11:00 to 12:00	Indecomposable commutative algebraic groups Michel Brion, Institut Fourier
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:00	Anticanonical tropical del Pezzo cubic surfaces Angelica Cueto, The Ohio State University
15:00 to 16:00	Break
16:00 to 17:00	Enumeration of points, lines, planes, etc. June Huh, IAS and Princeton University

Invited Speakers

Name	Affiliation
Christine Berkesch Zamaere	University of Minnesota
Michel Brion	Institut Fourier
Tom Coates	Imperial College London
Angelica Cueto	The Ohio State University
Sandra Di Rocco	KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Daniel Erman	University of Wisconsin–Madison
June Huh	IAS and Princeton University
Nathan Ilten	Simon Fraser University
Eric Katz	The Ohio State University
Kiumars Kaveh	University of Pittsburgh
Valentina Kiritchenko	National Research University Higher School of Economics
Alex Küronya	Goethe University
Thomas Lam	University of Michigan
Martina Lanini	University of Edinburgh
Christopher Manon	George Mason University
Sam Payne	Yale University
Kristian Ranestad	University of Oslo
Helge Ruddat	JGU Mainz
Frank Sottile	Texas A&M University
David Speyer	University of Michigan
Jenia Tevelev	University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Registered Participants

Name	Affiliation
Hiraku Abe	Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute
Tair Akhmejanov	Cornell University
Farid Aliniaeifard	York University
Klaus Altmann	Free University of Berlin
Shams Alyusof	George Mason University
David Anderson	The Ohio State University
Ahmed Ashraf	Western University
Karl Thomas Baath Sjoblom	Cornell University
Sanghoon Baek	KAIST
Jose Dario Bastidas Olaya	Cornell University
Christine Berkesch Zamaere	University of Minnesota
Frédéric Bihan	Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Greg Blekherman	Georgia Tech
Tristram Bogart	Universidad de los Andes
Mats Boij	KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Barbara Bolognese	The Fields Institute
Jonathan Borenstein
Michel Brion	Institut Fourier
David Bruce	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Taylor Brysiewicz	Texas A&M University
Anders Buch	Rutgers University
Jaroslaw Buczynski	Polish Academy of Sciences
Jim Carrell	University of British Columbia
Federico Castillo	University of California Davis
Renzo Cavalieri	Colorado State University
Alexander Caviedes Castro	Tel-Aviv University
Sung Rak Choi	Yonsei University
Tom Coates	Imperial College London
Filip Cools	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Daniel Corey	Yale University
Peter Crooks	University of Toronto
Angelica Cueto	The Ohio State University
Graham Denham	Western University
Rostislav Devyatov	University of Ottawa
Alicia Dickenstein	Universidad de Buenos Aires
Sandra Di Rocco	KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Maria Donten-Bury	Free University of Berlin
Balazs Elek	Cornell University
Daniel Erman	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Laura Escobar	The Fields Institute
Alexander Esterov	National Research University Higher School of Economics
Dmitry Faifman	University of Toronto
Matej Filip	Free University of Berlin
Alex Fink	Queen Mary University of London
Matthias Franz	Western University
Netanel Friedenberg	Yale University
Naoki Fujita	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Giuliano Gagliardi	Leibniz Universität Hannover
Federico Galetto	McMaster University
Adam Gardner	University of Toronto
Julia Gibson	McMaster University
Maria Gillespie	University of California Davis
Maria R. Gonzalez-Dorrego	Department of Mathematics
Joseph Gubeladze	San Francisco State University
Robin Guilbot	University of Warsaw
Christian Haase	Free University of Berlin
Megumi Harada	McMaster University
Corey Harris	Florida State University
Martin Helsø	University of Oslo
Milena Hering	University of Edinburgh
Daniel Hernández	University of Kansas
Zhuang He	Northeastern University
Jan Hofmann	Free University of Berlin
Johannes Hofscheier	Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Serkan Hosten	San Francisco State University
June Huh	IAS and Princeton University
Max Hully
Nathan Ilten	Simon Fraser University
Grace Ingermanson	University of Michigan
Armin Jamshidpey	Western University
Jack Jeffries	U Michigan
Roy Joshua	The Ohio State University
Elana Kalashnikov	Imperial College London
Nikita Kalinin	Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Rachel Karpman	The Ohio State University
Kalle Karu	University of British Columbia
Lars Kastner	Free University of Berlin
Eric Katz	The Ohio State University
Kiumars Kaveh	University of Pittsburgh
Tyler Kelly	University of Cambridge
Gary Kennedy	The Ohio State University
Valentina Kiritchenko	National Research University Higher School of Economics
Allen Knutson	Cornell University
Robert Krone	Queen's University
Thomas Lam	University of Michigan
Martina Lanini	University of Edinburgh
Eunjeong Lee	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Seung Jin Lee	Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Yoav Len	The Fields Institute
Li Li	Oakland University
Lucia Lopez de Medrano	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Diane Maclagan	University of Warwick
Timothy Magee	University of Texas at Austin
Nikolay Malkin	Yale University
Christopher Manon	George Mason University
Cameron Marcott	University of Waterloo
Steffen Marcus	The College of New Jersey
Hannah Markwig	University of Tübingen
Thomas Markwig	University of Tübingen
Florent Martin	Universität Regensburg
Stephen Melczer	University of Waterloo
Georg Merz	Mathematisches Institut
Leonardo Mihalcea	Virginia Tech
Mohsen Mollahajiaghaei	Western University
Yusuf Mustopa	Tufts University
Kris Nairn	College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
Joohan Na	Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Benjamin Nill	Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Bernt Ivar Utstøl Nødland	University of Oslo
Sam Payne	Yale University
Ragni Piene	University of Oslo
Ata Firat Pir	Texas A&M University
Irem Portakal	Free University of Berlin
Kevin Purbhoo	University of Waterloo
Claudiu Raicu	University of Notre Dame
Kristian Ranestad	University of Oslo
Mike Roth	Queen's University
Helge Ruddat	JGU Mainz
Franco Saliola	Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
taro sano	Kobe University
Matthew Satriano	University of Waterloo
Luca Schaffler	University of Georgia
Bernd Schober	Leibniz Universtität Hannover
Alexandra Seceleanu	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Aniket Shah	The Ohio State University
Kristin Shaw	The Fields Institute
Dali Shen	IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
Jifeng Shen	Yale University
Farbod Shokrieh	Cornell University
Evgeny Smirnov	Higher School of Economics
Gregory G. Smith	Queen's University
Jongbaek Song	KAIST
Ivan Soprunov	Cleveland State University
Frank Sottile	Texas A&M University
David Speyer	University of Michigan
Matthew Stevenson	University of Michigan
Dong Youp Suh	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technoloyg
Nicola Tarasca	The Fields Institute
Zach Teitler	Boise State University
Ashleigh Thomas	Duke University
Hugh Thomas	University of Quebec at Montreal
Howard Thompson	University of Michigan - Flint
Bach Tran	University of Edinburgh
Martin Ulirsch	University of Bonn
Jeremy Usatine	Yale University
Adam Van Tuyl	McMaster University
Elise Villella	University of Pittsburgh
Robert Walker	University of Michigan
Lena Walter	Free University of Berlin
Anna Weigandt	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Williams	Texas A&M University
Anna-Lena Winz	Free University of Berlin
Alexander Woo	University of Idaho
Li Ying	Texas A&M University
Qiao Zhou	University of California Berkeley
Yan Zhou	University of Texas at Austin