2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/145222These lecture notes explain the construction and basic properties of the wonderful compactification of a complex semisimple group of adjoint type. An appendix discusses the more general case of a semisimple symmetric space.28 pagesAlgebraic GeometryRepresentation Theory14M17; 20G20text