Calvin Fletcher

Date

Wednesday March 1, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Location

Jeffery Hall, Room 222 & Zoom

Curves Seminar

Wednesday, February 1st, 2023

Time: 1:00 p.m.  Place: Jeffery Hall, Room 222 & Zoom

Speaker: Calvin Fletcher

Title: Towards the affine toric variety of a polytope

Abstract: The purpose of this lecture will be to develop the geometric concepts required to define the affine toric variety of a polytope. We will study the relationship between the faces of a full dimensional polytope and the cones generated by their facet normals. We then define the normal fan of a polytope and provide some examples. Finally, we will briefly introduce the definition of an affine toric variety of a polytope.