Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Tropical geometry can be thought of as geometry over the tropical semiring, which is the set of real numbers together with the operations max and +. Just as ordinary linear and polynomial algebra give rise to convex geometry and algebraic geometry, tropical linear and polynomial algebra give rise to tropical convex geometry and tropical algebraic geometry. I will introduce the basic objects and problems in tropical geometry and discuss some relations with, and applications to, polyhedral geometry, computational algebra, and algebraic geometry.