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News:

• In the seminar we will study selected aspects of tropical and toric geometry.
  
  

  Date		Speaker		Title
  12.11.09		Thomas Markwig		Tropical geometry - an overview
  03.12.09		Stephan Oberfranz		Tropical curves and the Theorem of Bezout
  10.12.09		Florian Geiß		Tropical linear spaces / tropical grassmanians
  17.12.09		Georges Francois		Tropical enumerative geometry
  14.01.10		Simon Hampe		Computational aspects in tropical geometry
  21.01.10		Wolfram Decker		Introduction to Toric Varieties I
  28.01.10		Frank Seelisch		Introduction to Toric Varieties II
  03.02.10, 17:00 Uhr		Martin Ruderer		Intersection Theory of Toric Varieties
  04.02.10		Yue Ren		Sheaf Cohomology of Toric Varieties

Literature:

	Andreas Gathmann: Tropical algebraic geometry. Jahresbericht der DMV (2006), e-print arXiv:0601.5322.
	Anders Nedergaard Jensen: Algorithmic aspects of Gröbner fans and tropical varieties. PhD thesis (2007).
	Anders Nedergaard Jensen, Hannah Markwig, Thomas Markwig: An Algorithm for Lifting Points in a Tropical Variety. Collect. Math. 59,2 (2008), 129-165, e-print arXiv:0705.2441. (longer version)
	Diane Maclagan and Bernd Sturmfels: Introduction to tropical geometry. Book manuscript (2009).
	Hannah Markwig: The enumeration of plane tropical curves. PhD thesis (2006).