Time and place: Mondays (once in two weeks) 17:30--20:40, room 309.

Course program.

List of listeners.

Schedule:

• September 10.
  Double Lecture 1: Polytopes: basic definitions and constructions.
  Lecture notes: PostScript (gzipped).
  

• September 24.
  Double Lecture 2: Triangulations. Secondary polytope..
  Lecture notes: PostScript (gzipped).
  

• October 8.
  Double Lecture 3: Gale transform. McMullen's conditions.

• October 22.
  Double Lecture 4: Toric varieties.

• November 5.
  Double Lecture 5: Patchworking algebraic curves.

• November 19.
  Double Lecture 6: Algebra of polytopes. Virtual polytopes.