Tree spaces in tropical geometry

Abstract: The space of phylogenetic trees on n leaves arises naturally in tropical geometry through the tropical Grassmannian trop Gr(2,n). The space of equidistant trees on n leaves is the tropicalization of M_{0,n}, which is tropically convex. In this talk, I will present recent work using tropical tree spaces for phylogenetic statistics and inference (joint with Curiel, Sabol, Talbut, and Yoshida). I will also discuss a conjectural analogue of the space of equidistant trees for type C (joint with Igor Makhlin)

algebraic geometrycombinatorics

Audience: researchers in the topic

Tropical Geometry in Frankfurt/Zoom TGiF/Z

Series comments: Description: An afternoon seminar series on tropical geometry, known as the TGiZ ("Tropical Geometry in Zoom") or the TGiF ("Tropical Geometry in Frankfurt") seminar.

Please send an email to one of the organizers at the latest one day before a session if you wish to receive the Zoom link and password.

Videos of some past talks are available on YouTube here, while some slides can be found here.