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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)
 
Parent Programs:
Tropical Geometry
 
Participant List:
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This workshop is to lay the foundations for the upcoming program. Mini-courses comprising lectures and exercise/discussion sessions will cover the foundational aspects of tropical geometry as well as its connections with adjacent areas: symplectic geometry, several complex variables, algebraic geometry (in particular enumerative and computational aspects) and geometric combinatorics. The mini-courses will be augmented by research talks on current tropical develpoments to open the scene and set up new goals in the beginning semester.


"An illustration of the tropical Abel-Jacobi map" from G. Milkhalkin, I. Zharkov: "Tropical curves, their Jacobians and Theta functions," arXiv: math/0612267.

Bibliography (PDF)



Accommodations:

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available.
The cut-off date for reservations is August 7, 2009.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: 0908MSRIIN_001. The cut-off date for reservations is July 23, 2009.

We also hold a block of rooms at the Doubletree Hotel. Please mention the MSRI as a reference when making reservations by calling 510-548-7920. The Doubletree Hotel offers complementary shuttle to and from MSRI. The room rate is $99 per night.

New, completely renovated Hotel Shattuck Plaza has rooms available for you as well!
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Schedule

Monday August 24, 2009

09:00AM - 09:15AM  Welcome
09:15AM - 10:15AM  Ilia Itenberg Real aspects of tropical geomerty I
10:15AM - 11:00AM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
11:00AM - 12:00PM  Mikael Passare Complex amoebas and coamoebas I    (See Abstract)
12:00PM - 02:00PM  Lunch
02:00PM - 03:00PM  Diane Maclagan Introduction to tropical algebraic geometry I    (See Abstract)
03:00PM - 04:00PM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
04:00PM - 05:00PM  Grigory Mikhalkin Basic tropical notions: varieties and maps

Tuesday August 25, 2009

09:30AM - 10:30AM  Ilia Itenberg Real aspects of tropical geomerty II
10:30AM - 11:00AM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
11:00AM - 12:00PM  Diane Maclagan Introduction to tropical algebraic geometry II
12:00PM - 02:00PM  Lunch
02:00PM - 03:00PM  Evgueni Tevelev Tropical Elimination Theory I    (See Abstract)
03:00PM - 04:00PM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
04:00PM - 05:00PM  Jean-Jacques Risler Real Algebraic Geometry, Tropical Geometry and Total Curvature    (See Abstract)
05:00PM - 06:00PM  Reception in the atrium

Wednesday August 26, 2009

09:30AM - 10:30AM  Mikael Passare Complex amoebas and coamoebas II
10:30AM - 11:00AM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
11:00AM - 12:00PM  Evgueni Tevelev Tropical Elimination Theory II
12:00PM - 02:00PM  Lunch
02:00PM - 03:00PM  Denis Auroux Some tropical aspects of mirror symmetry I    (See Abstract)
03:00PM - 04:00PM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
04:00PM - 05:00PM  Alicia Dickenstein A naive approach to the implicitization of rational varieties using tropical tools

Thursday August 27, 2009

09:30AM - 10:30AM  Ilia Itenberg Real aspects of tropical geomerty III
10:30AM - 11:00AM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
11:00AM - 12:00PM  Diane Maclagan Introduction to tropical algebraic geometry III
12:00PM - 02:00PM  Lunch
02:00PM - 03:00PM  Denis Auroux Some tropical aspects of mirror symmetry II
03:00PM - 04:00PM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
04:00PM - 05:00PM  Mohammed Abouzaid Symplectic perspectives on tropical geometry    (See Abstract)

Friday August 28, 2009

09:30AM - 10:30AM  Mikael Passare Complex amoebas and coamoebas III
10:30AM - 11:00AM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
11:00AM - 12:00PM  Evgueni Tevelev Tropical Elimination Theory III
12:00PM - 02:00PM  Lunch
02:00PM - 03:00PM  Denis Auroux Some tropical aspects of mirror symmetry III
03:00PM - 04:00PM  Coffee, tea in the atrium
04:00PM - 05:00PM  Mark Gross Towards canonical theta functions for Calabi-Yaus

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