MA696W: K$^*$--Actions Toric Varieties and Birational Geometry Final project - rules. Each presentation project is to be performed by a single person in a class. It will take approx. 1 hr 15. and shall be related to one of the following topics. Mori Theory GIT $C^*$ -actions Birational Geometry of Toric Varieties. Suggested books. Tadao Oda Convex bodies and Toric Varieties Kenji Matsuki Introduction to Mori Theory Igor Dolgachev Lectures on Invariant Theory =================