Short Course
Short course: A COMBINATORIAL INTRODUCTION TO TROPICAL GEOMETRY
Instructor: Bernd Sturmfels
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Dates: Wednesday, Sept. 12, 9 a.m. until Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007
Place: Technical University Berlin
Mathematics Building
Straße des 17. Juni 136
D-10623 Berlin
Room MA 314/314, 3rd floor
This short course gives an introduction to tropical geometry,
emphasizing combinatorial and computational aspects. It consists of ten lectures by
Bernd Sturmfels, three each on Wednesday and Friday, and two each on
Thursday and Saturday. In addition, there will be enough time for
informal discussion, working sessions, software exercises, and a few shorter
contributed talks. The lectures will cover the following topics:
- Newton polytopes and tropical hypersurfaces
- Geometry over power series fields
- Computing tropical varieties
- Tropical linear algebra
- Grassmannians and determinantal varieties
- Tropical convexity and affine buildings
- F-vectors of linear spaces and matroid theory
- Implicitization and elimination
- Tropical discriminants
- Curves and intersection numbers
For a more detailed schedule and other informations click here.
If you want to take part please send a short email to Elke Pose