Working seminar Fall 2026, meeting Thursdays 2-3:30 BLOC 628
(meeting sporadically as I'm on leave)

August
8/20 Justin Lacini: Open problems in birational geometry
8/28 JM Landsberg: Quantum functionals and Strassen's functionals


October
10/22 JM Landsberg: What I understand about the assertion omega \leq 2.25





Working seminar Spring 2026, 
 
January
15 Speaker: JM Landsberg, Title: Symmetry Lie algebras of tensors
29 Speaker: Amy  Huang, Title: Determinental equations for secant varieties are equations for cactus varieties (work of Buczyński)
 
February
5 Justin Lacini: Introduction to affine Lie algebras and groups (following S. Kumar's book)
12 Amy Huang: Affine Lie algebras 
19 Amy Huang: Affine Lie algebras  2
26 JM Landsberg: The Dolezalek-Michalek preprint

March
5 Justin Lacini: Ind varieties
19 Tomek Mandziuk: Loop groups and infinite Grassmannians I
26 Tomek Mandziuk: Loop groups and infinite Grassmannians II

April
2 Zijin Xiao: Centroid abundant tensors with corank two
9 Justin Lacini: Introduction to Weyman's paper: Hilbert Burch Thm, and Gorenstein codim 3 resolutions.