Noah Giansiracusa, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College
“A matroidal view of algebraic geometry”
Tropical geometry is a rapidly developing subject that has touched upon many areas of math, emanating from the desire to represent complex manifolds with simpler, combinatorial models. I’ll give a brief overview and then discuss a recent effort to reinforce the connection to algebraic geometry by discussing an equations-based approach to tropical geometry built upon idempotent semirings and matroids.
MC 5501
Refreshments will be served in MC 5403 at 3:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend.