3. Postdoctoral Program - MSRI

Organizers particularly encouraged female participants to attend this workshop and gave them
priority for travel and lodging expenses.
An illustration for tropical implicitization from B. Sturmfels and J. Yu: "Tropical implicitization
and mixed fiber polytopes", in Software for Algebraic Geometry (editors M. Stillman, N.
Takayama and J. Verschelde), I.M.A. Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications 148,
Springer, New York, 2008, pp. 111–132.
Workshop 2: Introductory Workshop: Tropical Geometry
August 24, 2009 to August 28, 2009
Organized by Eva Maria Feichtner (University of Bremen), Ilia Itenberg* (University of
Strasbourg), Grigory Mikhalkin (Université de Genève), and Bernd Sturmfels (University of
California, Berkeley)
This workshop laid the foundations for the program that followed. Mini-courses comprising
lectures and exercise/discussion sessions covered the foundational aspects of tropical geometry
as well as its connections with adjacent areas: symplectic geometry, several complex variables,
algebraic geometry (in particular, enumerative and computational aspects), and geometric
combinatorics. The mini-courses were augmented by research talks on current tropical
developments in order to open the scene and set up new goals in the beginning of the semester.
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