Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Problems from enumerative geometry have Galois groups. Like those from field extensions, these Galois groups reflect the internal structure of the original problem. The Schubert calculus is a class of problems in enumerative geometry that is very well understood, and may be used as a laboratory to study new phenomena in enumerative geometry.I will discuss this background, and sketch a picture that is emerging from a sustained study of Schubert problems from the perspective of Galois theory. This includes a conjecture concerning the possible Schubert Galois groups, a partial solution of the inverse Galois problem, as well as glimpses of the outline of a possible classification of Schubert problems for their Galois groups.