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Introductory Workshop: Tropical Geometry |
| August 24, 2009 to August 28, 2009 |
| Organized By: Eva Maria Feichtner (U Bremen), Ilia Itenberg* (U Strasbourg), Grigory Mikhalkin (U Genève), Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley) |
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| Tropical Geometry |
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Introduction to tropical algebraic geometry I
Monday August 24, 2009
02:00PM - 03:00PM
Speakers:
Diane Maclagan
Abstract:
This mini-course will cover the basics of tropical algebraic geometry. From this perspective a tropical variety is the tropicalization of a subvariety of an algebraic torus, and many invariants of (compactifications of) the original variety can be computed from the tropical variety. The lectures will focus on the multiple alternate descriptions of a tropical variety (via valuations or Gröbner bases or polyhedral geometry), and the combinatorial constraints on a tropical variety (that it is a balanced weighted polyhedral complex that is connected in codimension-one and pure if the original variety is irreducible). The lectures should be accessible to graduate students and mathematicians coming from other areas.
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