Research Seminar: Tropical Mathematics, SS 08

Organizers: Walter Gubler (U Dortmund/HU Berlin), Christian Haase (FU Berlin), Michael Joswig (TU Darmstadt), and Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley/TU Berlin).

Time/Location: Wednesday, 14.00-16.00. This seminar will be held at FU Berlin, Takustraße 9, room SR 046.

Schedule

16.04. Walter Gubler: Tropical analytic geometry and the Bogomolov conjecture
23.04. Bernd Sturmfels: Tropical determinantal varieties
30.04. Anders Jensen (TU Berlin): Introduction to Gfan
07.05. Annette Werner (U Frankfurt): Affine buildings and their compactifications
14.05. Grigory Mikhalkin (U Toronto/TU Berlin): tba
21.05. Hannah Markwig (U Michigan): Counting plane elliptic tropical curves with fixed j-invariant
21.05. Thomas Markwig (U Kaiserslautern): Tropicalization of the j-invariant
04.06. Christian Haase: Tropical Riemann-Roch, chip firing, and tropical polytopes

Related Events

On Tuesday, May 20, 13.15-14.45, Vladimir Berkovich (Weizmann Institute/MPI Bonn) will speak on Analytic geometry over the field of one element. The talk will take place at HU Berlin, Johann von Neumann-Haus, Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin, Room 3.006.

The previously announced talk (for 18.6.) by Florian Block is cancelled.

On Wednesday, July 9, the seminar will take place at U Göttingen. There will be a series of talks (to be organized by Hannah Makwig and Anders Jensen). Details to be found here.

Acknowledgment

This seminar is partially funded by DFG Research Unit "Polyhedral Surfaces".


Michael Joswig

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