Tropical Seminar, Fall 2005

This is a learning seminar in aspects of tropical mathematics.

Wednesday, 5-6 (Busch, Period 6) in Hill 705 (Directions to the Hill Center)

Click on the title to see the abstract (if available). For more information, to volunteer to speak, or to be placed on the mailing list, please contact Diane Maclagan (maclaganATmathDOTrutgersDOTedu)

Schedule of talks:

September 14 Diane Maclagan Introductory talk
September 21 Bernd Sturmfels Tropical Discriminants
September 28 Roger Nussbaum Max-Plus Operators and Analysis
October 5 Sarah Genoway Tropical Varieties
October 12 Amit Khetan (IDA) Tropical Rank
October 19 Sonja Mapes (Columbia) The tropical Grassmannian
October 26 David Lehavi (Princeton) Mikhalkin's Classification of M-Curves in Maximal Position with Respect to Three Lines
November 2 Manfred Einsiedler (Princeton) Amoebas and algebraic dynamics
November 9    
November 16 Lara Pudwell The Bergman fan of a matroid
November 23 No seminar (Thanksgiving)  
November 30 No seminar  
December 7 Diane Maclagan Computing Tropical Varieties

List of open problems from the AIM workshop.
List of open problems from the Atlanta Joint Meetings.
List of open problems from Sturmfels.
A sample reading list (most can be found on the arxiv).
This web page is maintained by Diane Maclagan.