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Kempner Colloquium
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\begin{Huge}\textsc{Towards a tropical proof of the \\ Gieseker-Petri Theorem}
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\begin{Large}\textbf{David Jensen	}
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SUNY Stony Brook
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Recent years have witnessed the advent of tropical geometry, a tool for reducing geometric problems about Riemann surfaces to combinatorial problems about graphs.  After discussing some of the basics of this theory, we will explain how these combinatorial techniques can be used to give new proofs of famous theorems in algebraic geometry.





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November 5, 2012

4:00 p.m.

MATH 350

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