Leonardo Mihalcea,
Schubert Calculus on Grassmannians


In this talk I will describe some basic facts about the Intersection Theory on Grassmannians.This will be done by exhibiting a basis for the integral cohomology ring of these varieties. Remarkably, the structure constants of this ring are the same as the coefficients appearing in the product of 2 irreducible characters of GL(n)-modules (that is, the Littlewood-Richardson numbers).