Short Course: A combinatorial introduction to Tropical Geometry
September 12-15, 2007 at TU Berlin
- Newton polytopes and tropical hypersurfaces
- Geometry over power series fields
- Computing tropical varieties
- Tropical linear algebra
- Grassmannians and determinantal varieties
- Tropical convexity and affine buildings
- F-vectors of linear spaces and matroid theory
- Implicitization and elimination
- Tropical discriminants
- Curves and intersection numbers
Dates: Wednesday, Sept. 12, 9 a.m. until Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007
Place: TU Berlin
Mathematics Building
Straße des 17. Juni 136
D-10623 Berlin
Room MA 314/314, 3rd floor
If you want to take part, please send a short email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
See the COURSE HOMEPAGE for a detailed schedule and other information.