- Series
- Tropical Geometry Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 10:05am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 114
- Speaker
- Melody Chan – UC Berkeley – http://math.berkeley.edu/~mtchan/
- Organizer
- Josephine Yu
The Torelli map, taking an algebraic curve to its Jacobian, has a tropical analogue, developed in recent work by Brannetti, Melo, and Viviani. I will discuss the tropical Torelli map, with a focus on combinatorics and computations in low genus. Metric graphs, positive semidefinite forms, and regular matroids all play a role.