Class: TTh 9:00-10:20am in PDL C-401
Instructor: Cynthia Vinzant (email)
Tentative Instructor Office Hours: TTh 10:30-11:30am in PDL C-439

Class Syllabus

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Text Book
D. Maclagan and B. Sturmfels, Introduction to Tropical Geometry, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 161. American Mathematical Society, 2015. (available online through UW library).

Other resources
Tropical Geometry by Grigory Mikhalkin, Johannes Rau
Twelve Lectures on Tropical Geometry by Bernd Sturmfels
What is an Amoeba? by Oleg Viro

Software
Singular online
Gfan
polymake

Schedule (Tentative)

Week	Topic	Reading	Homework
Jan. 7, 9 no class Jan 9 (JMM)	Introduction and Background Notes: 01/07, 01/09	MS 1.1, 1.4, 2.1	HW 1 (.tex, .pdf) due Sun. Jan. 19
Jan. 14, 16
Jan. 21, 23
Jan. 28, 30
Feb. 4, 6
Feb. 11, 13
Feb. 18, 20
Feb. 25, 27
Mar. 4, 6
Mar. 11, 13