David Hilbert's Grundlagen der Geometrie is a rare example of a historical mathematics text that is still profitably read today and continues to inspire research in mathematics, computer science, and philosophy. The […]
In this talk, I'll attempt to give an introduction to the beautiful world of tropical geometry. As an application, I'll describe work with Siddarth Kannan (Pomona 2018) and Shiyue Li (Mudd 2017) using tropical geometry to compute the cohomology of certain moduli spaces, called heavy/light Hassett spaces, which are of interest in a wide range of […]
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