Student Representation Theory Seminar
Structure
The Student Representation Theory Seminar (SRTS) is a weekly informal reading seminar at LSU that aims to introduce research-level topics to graduate students in Representation Theory. Each semester, we pick a topic and devout the semester to learning that topic. We start with the foundations (roughly the first half of the semester) before diving into modern research papers on the selected topic (roughly the second half of the semester). Our topic for the Spring 2025 semester is Toric Varieties.
Each week, a participant will give a talk lasting between one to one-and-a-half hours. The talks are not recorded, but notes will be uploaded to this website after each talk. All graduate students with an interest in Representation Theory (and for this semester, Algebraic Geometry) are encouraged to attend. There is no prerequisites for attending the seminar; although, basic knowledge of representation theory of finite groups, Lie algebras, and algebraic geometry is certainly helpful.
Logistics
Class Room: Lockett 381
Time: Fridays 2:30pm-4:00pm
Organizers: Colton Sandvik (csandv1@lsu.edu) and Gurleen Nanda (gnanda1@.lsu.edu)
Topic: Toric Varieties
Resources
*D. Cox, J. Little, H. Schenck - Toric varieties. Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Vol 124.
W. Fulton - Introduction to toric varieties. Princeton University Press.
* This will be our main reference for the first half of the semester
Special Topics
For the last two months of the semester, we will have special topics talks. We encourage attendants to pick a reference and give a talk on it. These talks should be like a high level research talk (you can even pretend that it is your own research if you'd like). We will include many examples and references later on in the semester to draw from. Since toric varieties are not inherently representation theoretic, this will be a good opportunity to see how examples of toric varieties in your field of interest can be used to provide many computable examples.