Colloquium: A Trip to the Tropics
Author: UNB
Posted on Dec 20, 2013
Category: Seminars and Colloquia
Colloquium
A Trip to the Tropics
Joe Kileel (University of California, Berkeley)
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 3:30 pm
Tilley Hall Room 404
In the middle of winter, this talk will offer a trip to the tropics. Er, at least to tropical mathematics, where algebraic geometry is turned into polyhedral geometry, 1 + 1 = 1, and the picture below is of a smooth curve:
By the end of the talk, that should all make sense.