Economics for tropical geometer

Series
Algebra Seminar
Time
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 3:05am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Ngoc Mai Tran – UT Austin
Organizer
Josephine Yu
This talk surveys the connection between economics and tropical geometry, as developed in the paper of Baldwin and Klemperer (Tropical Geometry to Analyse Demand). I will focus on translating concepts, theorems and questions in economics to tropical geometry terms.