Math seminar on Thursday, 20 March

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M A T H E M A T I C S   S E M I N A R S   2014

Thursday, 20 March, at 15:00 hrs

Franziska Schroeter
(Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken)

"Tropical and Enumerative Geometry"

Abstract:

Tropical geometry has nowadays several, different facets related to 
algebraic gometry, commutative algebra, symplectic geometry, 
optimization, low-dimensional topology, knot theory and physics.
In the context of enumerative geometry the idea is to replace objects 
from algebraic geometry by combinatorial objects, we say we tropicalize 
these objects. The key feature of tropicalization is that important 
information about the objects (related to the problem studied) is conserved.

After a recap of basic notions, I will give an overview of recent 
achievements of tropical enumerative geometry and discuss current 
directions of research.

VENUE: L. Stasi Seminar Room, first floor, ICTP Leonardo Building