Computational Commutative Algebra (seminar)
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 Tentative/possible topics:

  • Polytopes, fewnomials, toric varieties, sparse resultants.
    • Polytopes
    • Sparse resultants
    • Binomial systems, intro to toric varieties
    • Mixed volume
    • Bernstein's theorem
    • Fewnomials
  • How to decompose a polynomial system?
    • Primary decomposition
    • Numeric irreducible decomposition
  • Applications to...
    • Economics: Nash equilibria
    • Algebraic coding theory
    • Integer programming
  • Possible side topics:
    • Proving identities in planar geometry via commutative algebra.
    • Counting multiplicities: can we do this numerically?
    • Intro to tropical algebraic geometry