Event time:
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location:
431 DL
Speaker:
Nathan Ilten
Speaker affiliation:
UC Berkeley
Event description:
In recent work, I have shown that certain birational transformations mapping a Laurent polynomial to another Laurent polynomial correspond to deformations between the associated toric varieties. I will discuss this result and its relevance in the larger context of mirror symmetry and the classification of Fano varieties.