- Series
- Algebra Seminar
- Time
- Monday, March 11, 2013 - 4:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Dustin Cartwright – Yale University
- Organizer
- Josephine Yu
A tropical complex is a Delta-complex together with some additional numerical data, which come from a semistable degeneration of a variety. Tropical complexes generalize to higher dimensions some of the analogies between curves and graphs. I will introduce tropical complexes and explain how they relate to classical algebraic geometry.