

Buildings, Varieties, and Applications
Program
All talks will be held in room E1 05 (Leibniz-Saal),
MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften Leipzig (Leipzig, Inselstr. 22).
Monday, November 11, 2019 | ||
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09:30 - 10:30 | Christopher Manon (University of Kentucky) Buildings, Toric Vector Bundles, and Tropical Linear Spaces | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 - 12:00 | Gabriele Nebe (RWTH Aachen) Flags in Network Coding | |
12:00 - 13:00 | Bertrand Rémy (École Polytechnique) On compactifications of buildings | |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
14:00 - 15:00 | Michael Walter (University of Amsterdam) Invariants, polytopes, and optimization | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Joshua Maglione (Universität Bielefeld) Computing order zeta functions via resolution of singularities | |
16:05 - 16:35 | Tair Akhmejanov (UC Davis) Kuperberg SL3 webs from convex sets in the affine building | |
16:40 - 17:40 | Beatrice Pozzetti (Heidelberg University) Compactifying Higher rank Teichmüller spaces | |
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 | ||
09:30 - 10:30 | Peter Bürgisser (TU Berlin) Non-commutative Optimisation | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 - 12:00 | Ian Le (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) Metric invariants of configurations of points in affine buildings | |
12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
14:00 - 14:30 | Melissa Sherman-Bennett (Harvard/UC Berkeley) Metric properties of the affine building of SL_d | |
14:35 - 15:05 | Philipp Reichenbach (TU Berlin) Bounds on the weight margin | |
15:10 - 15:40 | Martin Ulirsch (Goethe University Frankfurt) Abelian tropical covers | |
15:40 - 16:10 | Coffee Break | |
16:10 - 17:10 | Hiroshi Hirai (University of Tokyo) Euclidean Buildings in Combinatorial Optimization | |
17:15 - 17:45 | Taihei Oki (University of Tokyo) Computing the Maximum Degree of Minors in Skew Polynomial Matrices | |
18:30 | Conference Dinner at Auerbachs Keller (individual payment) (Leipzig, Grimmaische Straße, Mädler-Passage 2-4, see more info) | |
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | ||
09:00 - 10:00 | Yassine El Maazouz (University of California at Berkeley) P-adic Gaussians and their tropicalization | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Ulrich Görtz (University of Duisburg-Essen) Affine Deligne-Lusztig Varieties | |
11:35 - 12:05 | Marek Kaluba (TU Berlin/Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Non-commutative optimization and Kazhdan property (T) | |
12:05 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
14:00 - 15:00 | Tobias Rossmann (NUI Galway) Groups, growth, and geometry | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Yuri Santos Rego (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg) Buildings and cohomological properties of linear groups | |
16:00 - 17:00 | Petra Schwer (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg) Building bridges between geometry and algebra |
Date and Location
November 11 - 13, 2019
MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften Leipzig
Inselstr. 22
04103 Leipzig
Scientific Organizers
Marvin Anas Hahn
Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Bernd Sturmfels
MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leon Zhang
University of California
Administrative Contact
Saskia Gutzschebauch
MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften
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