Thu, February 23, 2017
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Math Tower 154
Title: Tropical Mathematics
Speaker: Angelica Cueto (Ohio State University)
Abstract: In this talk I will give a brief introduction to tropicalization, viewed as a machine transforming algebro-geometric problems into combinatorial ones. We will discuss the arithmetic of the tropical semiring, curves and linear spaces defined on it, and surprising connections to Phylogenetics.