Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry

Date: February 8, 2019

Time: 11:00AM - 11:50AM

Location: Bloc 605AX

Speaker: Thomas Yahl, Texas A&M University

Title: Galois Groups of Systems of Polynomial Equations

Abstract: A naive definition extending the notion of a Galois group to a system of polynomial equations often agrees with a geometric notion of a monodromy group. We will discuss these two groups associated to systems as well as their computation. It is an open problem to determine when these groups agree.