MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2014

Usually, we meet on Thursdays in SEO 1227 at 4PM.
  1. Thu 16 Jan: Jan Verschelde on Tropical Islands, the first chapter of a forthcoming book of Diane Maclagan and Bernd Sturmfels on introduction to tropical geometry.
  2. Thu 23 Jan: Jan Verschelde on Tropical Curves and Amoebas, based on sections 1.3 and 1.4 in Tropical Islands; with some ad hoc Python scripts to draw plane tropical curves and draw the amoeba of a line.
  3. Thu 6 Feb: Jan Verschelde on Tropical Implicitization, based on section 1.5 in Tropical Islands.
  4. Thu 13 Feb: Olga Kashcheyeva on Group theory as an origin for tropical geometry.
  5. Thu 27 Feb: Olga Kashcheyeva on Fields and valuations in tropical geometry.
  6. Thu 20 Mar: Jan Verschelde on Algebraic Varieties and Polyhedral Geometry, based on sections 1.4, 2.2, and 2.4.
  7. Thu 3 Apr: Jan Verschelde on Groebner Complexes and Tropical Bases, based on sections 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6.
  8. Thu 10 Apr: Jan Verschelde on Initial Forms and Groebner Polyhedra, based on sections 2.4 and 2.5.
  9. Thu 17 Apr: Jan Verschelde on Tropical Varieties, based on chapter 3.
  10. Thu 24 Apr: Nathan Bliss on An implementation of the Newton-Puiseux algorithm with applications.
  11. Thu 1 May: Xiangcheng Yu on GPU acceleration of polynomial system evaluation and differentiation.

Seminars organized in previous semesters: