Seminar on Toric Varieties 0366-5044-01

Mikhail Borovoi

Spring 2016

Schedule: Thursday 11-13 in Schreiber 209.

Toric varieties are geometric objects defined by combinatorial data. They provide a wonderful introduction to algebraic geometry.

We will start from this tutorial. Then we will continue with Fulton's book, Sections 1.2 - 1.5.

Book: W. Fulton, Introduction to toric varieties, Princeton University Press, 1993.

Home page of David A. Cox with several lecture courses on toric varieties

Page in Hebrew Wikipedia

Contact me at: borovoi@post.tau.ac.il. Please write in subject: Toric varieties.

Seminar homepage: http://www.tau.ac.il/~borovoi/courses/ToricVarieties/TV.html