Reading Seminar Toric Topology

The TTS page for the Spring 2008 semester (which lists speakers, abstracts and literature) can be reached here.

Contact: Alvise Trevisan

Wednesday, 03/09/2008, 10:00 - 11:00, room R2.?
Speaker: Alvise Trevisan
Title: Omniorientations and stably complex structures for quasitoric manifolds.
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Wednesday, 10/09/2008, 10:00 - 11:00, room R2.?
Speaker: Alvise Trevisan
Title: Omniorientations and stably complex structures for quasitoric manifolds, part II.
Quasitoric representatives in the complex cobordism ring.
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Wednesday, 01/10/2008, 10:00 - 11:00, room R2.?
Speaker: Natalia Dobrinskaya
Title: Almost complex structures on quasitoric manifolds.
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Wednesday, 08/10/2008, 10:00 - 11:00, room R2.?
Speaker: Natalia Dobrinskaya
Title: Almost complex structures on quasitoric manifolds, part II.
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Wednesday, 15/10/2008, 10:00 - 11:00, room R2.?
Speaker: Dietrich Notbohm
Title: Complex structures on the Borel construction on the tangent bundle of a quasitoric manifold, part I.
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Thursday, 30/10/2008, 15:15 - 16:15, room R2.?
Speaker: Dietrich Notbohm
Title: Complex structures on the Borel construction on the tangent bundle of a quasitoric manifold, part II.
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Wednesday, 05/11/2008, 10:00 - 11:00, room R2.?
Speaker: Victor M. Buchstaber
Title: The differential ring of combinatorial polytopes
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Wednesday, 18/11/2008, 10:00 - 11:00, room R2.?
Speaker: Federica Pasquotto
Title: GKM manifolds and graphs, part I.
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Wednesday, 25/11/2008, 10:00 - 11:00, room R2.?
Speaker: Federica Pasquotto
Title: GKM manifolds and graphs, part II.
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Literature

Audin, M., Torus actions on symplectic manifolds, Progress in Mathematics, 93, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2004.
Buchstaber, V.M. and Panov, T.E., Torus actions and their applications in topology and combinatorics, University Lecture Series 24, American Mathematical Society, 2004.
Buchstaber, V.M. and Ray, N., Spaces of polytopes and cobordism of quasitoric manifolds, Mosc. Math. J. 7 (2007), No. 2, 219-242.
Cannas da Silva, A., Lectures on symplectic geometry, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1764, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
Danilov, V.I., Geometry of toric varieties, Russ. Math. Surv. 33 (1978), no.2, 97-154.
Davis, M.W. and Januszkiewicz, T., Convex polytopes, Coxeter orbifolds and torus actions, Duke Math. J. 62 (1991), no.2, 417-451.
Ewald, G., Combinatorial convexity and algebraic geometry, Graduate Text in Mathematics, Springer, 1996.
Fulton, W., Introduction to toric varieties, Princeton University Press, 1993.
Oda, T., Convex bodies and algebraic geometry. An introduction to the theory of algebraic varieties, Springer-Verlag, 1998.