Event time:
Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location:
431 DL
Speaker:
Melody Chan
Speaker affiliation:
Harvard
Event description:
A plane cubic is in honeycomb form if its tropicalization exhibits a hexagonal cycle. We present algorithms for computing such representations, and we revisit the tropical group law for elliptic curves. This is joint work with Bernd Sturmfels.