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Joint Mathematics Meetings
Atlanta, GA, January 5-8, 2005
Meeting #1003
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner , AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
James J Tattersall , MAA tat@providence.edu
AMS-MAA Special Session on Tropical Geometry
Wednesday January 5, 2005, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on Tropical Geometry, I
Organizers: Michael Develin , University of California Berkeley develin@math.berkeley.edu
Bernd Sturmfels , University of California Berkeley bernd@math.berkeley.edu
2:15 p.m.
Introduction to Tropical Mathematics.
Mike Develin* , American Institute of Mathematics
(1003-05-263)
2:45 p.m.
Perturbation of matrix eigenvalues and min-plus algebra.
Marianne Akian , INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
Ravindra Bapat , Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi
Stephane Gaubert* , INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
(1003-15-1312)
3:15 p.m.
Break
4:15 p.m.
On the strong regularity of matrices in max-algebra.
Peter Butkovic* , University of Birmingham (England)
(1003-15-735)
4:45 p.m.
Tropical Compactrifications.
Jenia Tevelev* , University of Texas at Austin
(1003-14-1553)
5:15 p.m.
Computing Groebner Fans.
Komei Fukuda , ETH, Zurich
Anders Jensen , University of Aarhus, Denmark
Rekha Thomas* , University of Washington
(1003-13-1285)
5:45 p.m.
Computing tropical varieties.
Anders Nedergaard Jensen* , University of Aarhus
Bernd Sturmfels , University of California
Rekha R. Thomas , University of Washington
(1003-52-1428)
Thursday January 6, 2005, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on Tropical Geometry, II
Organizers: Michael Develin , University of California Berkeley develin@math.berkeley.edu
Bernd Sturmfels , University of California Berkeley bernd@math.berkeley.edu
1:00 p.m.
Factorization of Polynomials over the Tropical Semiring.
Fred H. Roush* , Alabama State University
K. H. Kim , Alabama State University
(1003-12-1723)
1:30 p.m.
The Positive Bergman Complex of an Oriented Matroid.
Lauren K. Williams* , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Federico Ardila , Microsoft Research
Caroline Klivans , University of Chicago
(1003-05-776)
2:00 p.m.
Geometry behind the split decomposition of finite metrics.
Hirai Hiroshi* , Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
(1003-05-816)
2:30 p.m.
Tropical Linear Spaces.
David E Speyer* , University of California, Berkeley
(1003-05-1358)
3:00 p.m.
Tropical geometry for biology.
Lior Pachter* , U.C. Berkeley
Bernd Sturmfels , U.C. Berkeley
(1003-92-1537)
3:30 p.m.
Tropical Polytopes in General Position.
Michael Joswig* , TU-Berlin
(1003-52-1715)
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