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Mathematics Colloquium EVENT DETAIL Date:  Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Title:  Sumner B. Myers Prize Colloquium Toric Vector Bundles Abstract:  Vector bundles on toric varieties that carry a lift of the action of the dense torus are approachable, in part, through combinatorial methods, yet still exhibit a wide range of exotic and poorly understood phenomena. As our understanding grows, these toric vector bundles may become a useful testing ground for general questions about vector bundles on algebraic varieties. I will survey many of the known results about toric vector bundles and discuss relations with a few intriguing open questions. For instance, does every complete algebraic variety have a nontrivial vector bundle on it? Speaker:  Sam Payne Institution:  Stanford   Back to current Colloquium List Back to UM Math seminars page .