MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2009
Usually, we meet on Thursdays in SEO 612 at 11AM.
- Thu 15 Jan: organizational meeting.
- Thu 22 Jan: Danko Adrovic explained how to compute
the second term of a Puiseux series for a common factor of
two polynomials.
- Thu 29 Jan: Jan Verschelde on an introduction to the geometric
Littlewood-Richarson rule of Ravi Vakil.
- Thu 5 Feb: Anton Leykin gives an introduction
to Galois problems for Schubert problems.
- Thu 12 Feb: continuation of the talk of Anton.
- Thu 19 Feb: Josephine Yu on tropical algebraic geometry.
- Thu 26 Feb: Olga Kashcheyeva on semigroups of valuations.
- Thu 5 Mar: Jan Verschelde on the fundamental theorem
of tropical algebraic geometry, following the paper by Anders Jensen,
Hannah Markwig, and Thomas Markwig.
- Thu 12 Mar: continuation of last week.
- Thu 19 Mar: Danko Adrovic demonstrate Maple code to
detect a common factor of two polynomials.
- Thu 2 Apr: Jan Verschelde on Littlewood-Richardson homotopies.
- Thu 9 Apr: Josephine Yu on tropical implicitization.
- Thu 16 Apr: Sonja Petrovic on
polynomials and computations in algebraic statistics.
- Thu 23 Apr: Jan Verschelde on polyhedral methods
for solution curves.
- Thu 30 Apr: Yun Guan on the intrinsic diagonal homotopy.
Seminars organized in previous semesters: