MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2009

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

Seminars organized in previous semesters: