June 19, 2019
Benjamin Schröter is a Riley Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He got his doctoral degree at Technische Universität Berlin under the supervision of Michael Joswig.
His research interests are broadly around matroid theory and polyhedral geometry in particular including fields as algebraic and commutative algebra, tropical geometry, combinatorics and optimization, as well as computational and algorithmic aspects. Part of his work and many others is the development of the open source software polymake.
This time Benjamin visited; MPI MiS to work with Yue Ren on an article about parallel computation of tropical varieties, tropical Grassmannians and their positive part.