Valuative Tree Seminar

Andrej Vukovic, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

We review aspects of the theory of Berkovich spaces, including quasimonomial valuations and invariants associated to a valuation. We then discuss birational geometry, introducing blowups and log resolutions of ideals. We discuss dual graphs and describe the classification of semivaluations in the valuative tree. We conclude by returning to our earlier study of plane polynomial dynamics.

M3 3103