Newton-Okounkov bodies and local positivity

Name: Newton-Okounkov bodies and local positivity
Start: 2023-02-14T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-02-14T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Science Center 507

SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY

When: February 14, 2023

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Alex Küronya - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

The purpose of this talk is to discuss Newton-Okounkov bodies, a convex geometric construction associated to divisors on projective varieties. We will touch on their relationship with local positivity, multiplicative filtrations on section rings, and applications.