Nov 18 2024

Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Rational normal curves, phylogenetic trees, and tropical geometry, by Noah Giansiracusa

November 18, 2024

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

Location

636 SEO

Address

Chicago, IL

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Noah Giansiracusa (Bentley University): Rational normal curves, phylogenetic trees, and tropical geometry

I'll discuss joint work with Alessio Caminata, Luca Schaffler, and Han-Bom Moon in which we study equations defining (the closure of) the locus of n points in projective space that lie on a rational normal curve and apply these equations to resolve a question of Lior Pachter and David Speyer from 2004 on the tropical geometry of the space of phylogenetic trees.

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