Title: Flag varieties and Schubert calculus

Lecturer: Arun Ram, University of Melbourne

Abstract: 
Schubert calculus is the study of the structure of flag varieties. 
An example of a flag variety is the set of k-dimensional subspaces 
of a vector space (when k=1, this gives us projective space). 
The structure of flag varieties is intimately connected to the 
combinatorics of symmetric functions, and Schubert calculus is the 
mechanics for doing computations in flag varieties with polynomials.  
This course will be a survey of how we play this game.