Event time:
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Location:
LOM 214
Speaker:
Tassos Vogiannou
Speaker affiliation:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Event description:
After giving a brief review on spherical varieties, we introduce tropicalization and tropical compactifications in spherical homogeneous spaces in the constant coefficient case. This is a natural extension of tropicalization in tori. We provide some examples and discuss possible applications.