Speaker: Al Kasprzyk (Imperial) Title: Computational aspects extremal Laurent polynomials and Fano varieties Time & Place: 3-4pm, Thursday 19 January, Carslaw 535 Abstract: I will outline a project to list Minkowski polynomials in four variables and sketch the connection with Fano 4-folds. This is experimental work in progress with Alessio Corti, Tom Coates, Sergei Galkin, and Vasily Golyshev.