# Selected topics on Toric Varieties

## TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of toric varieties, covering their fundamental properties and advanced topics with a focus on combinatorial aspects, based on lecture series at RIMS, Kyoto.

## Contribution

It offers a comprehensive introduction and exploration of toric varieties, emphasizing combinatorial methods and recent developments.

## Key findings

- Detailed description of basic properties of toric varieties
- Discussion of advanced combinatorial topics in toric geometry
- Connections between algebraic and combinatorial aspects

## Abstract

This article is based on a series of lectures on toric varieties given at RIMS, Kyoto. We start by introducing toric varieties, their basic properties and later pass to more advanced topics relating mostly to combinatorics.