Introduction to tropical geometry and combinatorial algebra/geometry

Series
Graduate Student Colloquium
Time
Thursday, September 8, 2022 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Trevor Gunn – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Abhishek Dhawan, Trevor Gunn, Roberta Shapiro

I will give an introduction to tropical geometry which arises when you take the coordinate-wise logarithm of points in a curve and then take the base of the logarithm to infinity. This gives a combinatorial curve which is basically a bunch of rays starting at the origin. I will also talk a bit about polygons, number theory and geometry.