What is tropical geometry?
Date:
Friday, 20 May, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:00
Venue:
LSB 222
Seminar Type:
Seminar
Speaker Name:
Prof. Siu-Cheong LAU
Affiliation:
Boston University
Abstract:
Tropical geometry is a relatively young subject which provides beautiful visualizations of algebraic varieties and powerful combinatorial ways to compute `invariants'. It is called `tropical' because the subject was found in a tropical area, namely one of the founders Imre Simon (1943-2009) was a Brazilian mathematician. In this talk we will attack various amoebas in the tropical world and extract useful geometric information from them.
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