Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Unitobler, F013
53 seats, 74m^2
Date: Tuesday, 09/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS122: Tropical and combinatorial methods in economics
Location: Unitobler, F013
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Tropical and combinatorial methods in economics

Chair(s): Ngoc Mai Tran (The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

On the Construction of Substitutes

Eric Balkanski
Harvard

 

Connection Between Discrete Convex Analysis and Auction Theory

Akiyoshi Shioura
Tokyo Institute of Technology

 

Unimodular schemes

Gleb Koshevoy
Russian Academy of Sciences

 

Transversal valuated matroids

Alex Fink
Queen Mary University of London

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS138: Computational aspects of tropical geometry
Location: Unitobler, F013
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Computational aspects of tropical geometry

Chair(s): Georg Peter Loho (London School of Economics), Ngoc Mai Tran (University of Texas), Yue Ren (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany), Kalina Mincheva (Yale University, USA)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Condition numbers of stochastic mean payoff games and what they say about nonarchimedean semidefinite programming

Xavier Allamigeon1, Stéphane Gaubert1, Ricardo Katz2, Mateusz Skomra3
1INRIA & CMAP, 2CONICET-CIFASIS, 3École normale supérieure de Lyon

 

Computing tropical hypersurface intersections

Anders Jensen
Aarhus University

 

Algebraic systems and exterior semi-algebras

Letterio Gatto1, Lois Rowen2
1Politecnico di Torino, 2Bar-Ilan University

 

Tropical volume by tropical Ehrhart polynomials

Matthias Schymura
EPFL


Date: Wednesday, 10/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS156: Tropical geometry in statistics
Location: Unitobler, F013
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Tropical geometry in statistics

Chair(s): Carlos Améndola (TU Munich), Anthea Monod (Columbia University), Ruriko Yoshida (Naval Postgraduate School)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Tropical principal component analysis

Leon Zhang
UC Berkeley

 

Tropical Foundations for Probability and Statistics on Phylogenetic Tree Spaces

Bo Lin
Georgia Tech

 

Tropical Gaussians

Ngoc Tran
University of Texas, Austin

 

Tropical hardware for data intensive applications: DNA sequence alignment to machine learning

Advait Madhavan
University of Maryland College Park, NIST

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS167, part 1: Computational tropical geometry
Location: Unitobler, F013
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Computational tropical geometry

Chair(s): Kalina Mincheva (Yale University), Yue Ren (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

The tropical geometry of shortest paths

Michael Joswig1, Benjamin Schroeter2
1Technische Universität Berlin, 2Binghamton University

 

Tropicalization of semialgebraic sets arising in convex optimization

Xavier Allamigeon1, Stephane Gaubert1, Mateusz Skomra2
1INRIA & CMAP, 2École normale supérieure de Lyon

 

Linear algebra and convexity over symmetrized semirings, hyperfields and systems

Marianne Akian1, Stephane Gaubert1, Lois Rowen2
1INRIA & CMAP, 2Bar-Ilan University

 

Linear algebra and convexity over symmetrized semirings, hyperfields and systems.

Marianne Akian, Xavier Allamigeon, Stephane Gaubert, Marin Boyet
INRIA & CMAP


Date: Thursday, 11/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS144: Tropical geometry in machine learning
Location: Unitobler, F013
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Tropical geometry in machine learning

Chair(s): Gregory Naisat (The University of Chicago, United States of America)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Tropical geometry of deep neural networks

Gregory Naisat
The University of Chicago, United States of America

 

Tropical geometry and weighted lattices

Petros Maragos
FNational Technical University of Athens

 

A Tropical Approach to Neural Networks with Piecewise Linear Activations

Vasileios Charisopoulos
Cornell University

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS167, part 2: Computational tropical geometry
Location: Unitobler, F013
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Computational tropical geometry

Chair(s): Kalina Mincheva (Yale University), Yue Ren (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Connectivity of tropical varieties

Diane Maclagan1, Josephine Yu2
1Warwick University, 2Georgia Tech

 

Tropical convex hull of polytopes

Cvetelina Hill1, Sara Lamboglia2, Faye Pasley Simon3
1Georgia Tech, 2Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 3North Carolina State University

 

Algorithmic questions around tropical Carathéodory

Georg Peter Loho
London School of Economics

 

Convergent Puiseux series and tropical geometry of higher rank


Ben Smith
Queen Mary University of London


Date: Friday, 12/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS141, part 1: Chip-firing and tropical curves
Location: Unitobler, F013
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Chip-firing and tropical curves

Chair(s): Chi Ho Yuen (University of Bern), Alejandro Vargas (University of Bern)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Introduction to chip firing

Alejandro Vargas
University of Bern

 

Computing divisorial gonality is hard

Dion Gijswijt
TU Delft

 

Recognizing hyperelliptic graphs

Marieke van der Wegen
University of Utrecht

 

Graphs of gonality three

Ralph Morrison
Williams College

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS167, part 3: Computational tropical geometry
Location: Unitobler, F013
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Computational tropical geometry

Chair(s): Kalina Mincheva (Yale University), Yue Ren (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Tropicalized quartics and curves of genus 3

Marvin Hahn1, Hannah Markwig2, Yue Ren3, Ilya Tyomkin4
1Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 2Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 3Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany, 4Ben Gurion University

 

Tropical Jucys Covers and refined quasimodularity

Marvin Hahn1, Felix Leid2, Danilo Lewanski3, Jan-Willem van Ittersum4
1Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 2Universität des Saarlandes, 3Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, 4universiteit utrecht

 

Tropical lines on tropical surfaces

Michael Joswig1, Marta Panizzut1, Bernd Sturmfels2, Magnus Dehli Vigeland3
1Technische Universität Berlin, 2Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, UC Berkeley, 3University of Oslo

 

Polyhedral tropical geometry of higher rank

Marcel Celaya, Josephine Yu
Georgia Tech


Date: Saturday, 13/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS141, part 2: Chip-firing and tropical curves
Location: Unitobler, F013
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Chip-firing and tropical curves

Chair(s): Chi Ho Yuen (University of Bern), Alejandro Vargas (University of Bern)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Chip-firing and the tropical inverse problem

Dhruv Ranganathan
University of Cambridge

 

Tropical Prym Varieties

Yoav Len
Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Equidistribution of tropical Weierstrass points

Harry Richman
University of Michigan

 

Submodular functions in tropical geometry: the existence of semibreak divisors

Lilla Tóthmérész
Eötvös Loránd University

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS167, part 4: Computational tropical geometry
Location: Unitobler, F013
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Computational tropical geometry

Chair(s): Kalina Mincheva (Yale University), Yue Ren (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Massively parallel methods with applications in tropical geometry

Dominik Bendle1, Kathrin Bringmann2, Arne Buchholz3, Janko Boehm1, Christoph Goldner4, Hannah Markwig4, Mirko Rahn5, Yue Ren6, Benjamin Schroeter7
1Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, 2Universität Köln, 3Universität des Saarlandes, 4Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 5Fraunhofer ITWM, 6Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany, 7Binghamton University

 

Tropical Grassmannians Gr_p(3,8) and the Dressian Dr(3,8)

Dominik Bendle1, Janko Boehm1, Yue Ren2, Benjamin Schroeter3
1Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, 2Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany, 3Binghamton University

 

Computing unit groups of curves

Justin Chen1, Sameera Vemulapalli2, Leon Zhang1
1UC Berkeley, 2Princeton University

 

A numerical algorithm for tropical membership

Taylor Brysiewicz
Texas A&M University