Non-archimedean amoebas and tropical geometry

Series
Tropical Geometry Seminar
Time
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 10:05am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Matt Baker – Georgia Tech – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~mbaker/
Organizer
Josephine Yu
I will discuss the correspondence between non-archimedean amoebas and tropical varieties, which is a generalization of the theory of Newton polygons to polynomials in several variables.