Schedule for Tropical Geometry

Instructor: Frank Sottile
Lectures: MWF 10:10 -- 11:20 AM
Course Announcement
Course webpage: www.math.tamu.edu/~sottile/teaching/09.2/tropical.html

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August 31 Tropical Algebra, first tropical plane curves
September 2 Drawing tropical curves and regular subdivisions
September 4 Structure Theorem for tropical plane curves: emdedded graphs dual to regular subdivisions.
September 7 Structure Theorem for tropical plane curves: multiplicities and balanced graphs
September 9 Puiseaux series and tropicalizations of linear maps: (Background to Yuster-Yu)
September 11 Jan Draisma Parametrizing tropical linear spaces
September 14 Tropical plane curves: Bernstein's Theorem
September 16 Bernstein's Theorem and fields with valuation
September 18 More fields with valuation and algebraic tori
September 21
September 23
September 25 No class: Frank in Michigan
September 28
September 30
October 2
October 5 Josephine Yu
October 7
October 9
October 12 Finally finishing Payne's Fibers of tropicalization
October 14
October 16
October 19
October 21
October 23
October 26
October 28 Mounir Nisse
October 30
November 2 Erwan Brugallé
November 4
November 6
November 9 Gregg Musiker
November 11
November 13
November 16
November 18
November 20--25   No class: Frank in Germany
November 30
December 2
December 4
December 7 Ilia Itenberg
December 8
No Final Exam, likely final projects
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