Bi-annual Algebraic and Tropical Meetings of
Brown and YaLE
(BATMOBYLE)

Spring 2017 @ Brown
May 4, 2017


The BATMOBYLE is a vehicle for bringing together the algebraic and tropical geometry groups of Brown and Yale for a biannual day of talks alternating between the two universities.


Diane Maclagan

Diane Maclagan

(Warwick)
Tropical Schemes

Tropical geometry allows varieties, and their compactifications and degenerations, to be studied using combinatorial and polyhedral techniques. While this idea has proved surprisingly effective over the last decade, it has so far been restricted to the study of varieties and algebraic cycles. I will discuss joint work with Felipe Rincon that gives a definition for of a subscheme of a tropical toric variety. This builds on work of Jeff and Noah Giansiracusa on tropicalizing subschemes.




10:00 - 11:00 Coffee and BreakfastCommon Room (102)
11:00 - 12:00 The boundary complex of a Deligne-Mumford stack
Alicia Harper (Brown)
Room: 105
12:00 - 02:00 Lunch
02:00 - 03:00 Gluing holomorphic cylinders
Tony Yue-Yu (IAS/Clay)
Room: 205
03:00 - 04:00 Tea Common room (102)
04:00 - 05:00 Plenary Talk: Tropical Schemes
Diane Maclagan (Warwick)
Room: 205


*The first talk will be held in 105. The other talks will be held in Kassar 205. Kassar House is located on the corners of George Street and Thayer Street. Please use the Thayer street entrance-- the math department is on the left side of the annex.

Organizers:
Dan Abramovich (Brown), Kenny Ascher (Brown), Asher Auel (Yale), Melody Chan (Brown), Brendan Hassett (Brown), Nathan Pflueger (Brown), Dhruv Ranganathan (MIT/IAS), and Sam Payne (Yale).


Previous BATMOBYLEs: Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016