Lecture series:

• Luis Sola Conde: Geometry of rational homogeneous spaces.
  During these lectures we will look at rational homogeneous spaces from the point of view of projective geometry. We will start by going through their classification and the description of their Mori cones and contractions. We will then study how their cohomology rings can be written in terms of certain features of their groups of automorphisms (roots, Weyl groups), introducing Schubert cycles and -their standard desingularizations- Bott-Samelson varieties. Along the different lectures we will describe projectively many examples, of classical (Grassmannians, flags, quadrics,...) and exceptional type.
• Andrzej Weber: Characteristic classes of singular varieties in equivariant theories.
  Spaces with torus action, GKM-spaces and the moment map (main examples toric varieties, homogeneous spaces and their subvarieties). Equivariant cohomology theories: Borel theory and K-theory, localization theorems, formula for cohomology/K-theory of GKM-spaces. Equivariant cohomology and K-theory of homogeneous spaces, Demazure operations, Schubert varieties and their fundamental classes, inductive definition of Grothendieck polynomials. Equivariant characteristic classes of singular varieties in equivariant cohomology (CSM-classes) and K-theory (motivic Chern classes). Equivariant characteristic classes of toric varieties and Schubert varieties in G/B. Action of the Hecke algebra on characteristic classes.