MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2014
Usually, we meet on Thursdays in SEO 1227 at 4PM.
- 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.
- 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.
- Thu 6 Feb: Jan Verschelde on
Tropical Implicitization,
based on section 1.5 in Tropical Islands.
- Thu 13 Feb: Olga Kashcheyeva on
Group theory as an origin for tropical geometry.
- Thu 27 Feb: Olga Kashcheyeva on
Fields and valuations in tropical geometry.
- Thu 20 Mar: Jan Verschelde on
Algebraic Varieties
and Polyhedral Geometry,
based on sections 1.4, 2.2, and 2.4.
- Thu 3 Apr: Jan Verschelde on
Groebner Complexes
and Tropical Bases,
based on sections 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6.
- Thu 10 Apr: Jan Verschelde on
Initial Forms and Groebner Polyhedra,
based on sections 2.4 and 2.5.
- Thu 17 Apr: Jan Verschelde on
Tropical Varieties,
based on chapter 3.
- Thu 24 Apr: Nathan Bliss on An implementation of the
Newton-Puiseux algorithm with applications.
- Thu 1 May: Xiangcheng Yu on GPU acceleration of polynomial
system evaluation and differentiation.
Seminars organized in previous semesters:
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2013
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2013
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2012
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2012
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2011
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2011
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2010
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2010
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2009
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2009
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2008
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2008
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2007
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2006
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2005
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2005
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2004
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2004
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2003