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Claremont Topology Seminar: Carrie Frizzell (Scripps College)
March 4 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
We especially welcome all undergraduates and graduate students to attend topology seminar!
Speaker: Carrie Frizzell (Scripps College)
Title: A Primer on Tropical Geometry
Abstract: Max-plus and min-plus semifields—coined tropical semifields—appeared in the 1970s in the work of the computer scientist Imre Simon. Since then, the field of tropical geometry has developed rapidly. In this talk, we’ll present some basics of tropical geometry, starting with tropical algebra and then passing to the geometric side via a few examples of tropical hypersurfaces. We will also discuss the relationship between classical algebraic curves and tropical curves.
