Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

4. - 6. December 2024

Matroids, M-convexity, and buildings are combinatorial abstractions of geometry that form the basis for the mindset of “doing geometry without geometry”. Embracing this mindset has led to new perspectives for instance on volume polynomials and log-concavity (via Lorentzian polynomials), intersection theory (via combinatorial Chow rings), and flag manifolds (via flag matroids). The consequences are spectacular. This workshop aims at bringing together experts and aspiring experts from various areas of geometry and combinatorics to further explore the possibilities and implications of this approach.

Speakers

• Omid Amini (École Polytechnique )

• Marie-Charlotte Brandenburg (KTH Stockholm)

• Giulia Codenotti (FU Berlin)

• Alex Fink (Queen Mary University)

• Mario Kummer (TU Dresden)

• Dustin Ross (San Francisco State University)

• Victoria Schleis (Durham University)

• Petra Schwer (Heidelberg)

• Josephine Yu (Georgia Tech)

Schedule

Wednesday, Dec. 4

• 13:30-14:00: Registration and arrival

• 14:00-15:00: Alex Fink

• 15:00-15:30: Coffee break

• 15:30-16:30: Victoria Schleis

• 16:30-17:00: Coffee break

• 17:00-18:00: Dustin Ross

• 18:00- ?: Pizza and Beer

Thursday, Dec. 5

• 9:30-10:30: Mario Kummer

• 10:30-11:00: Coffee break

• 11:00-12:00: Marie Brandenburg

• 12:00-14:00: Lunch break (lots of options in Bockenheim)

• 14:00-15:00: Petra Schwer

• 15:15-16:15: Pre-Talk by for the Frankfurter Seminar by Kevin Kühn (no professors allowed, Lecture Hall of the Physikalischer Verein).

• 16:15-16:45: Coffee break (Physikalischer Verein)

• 16:45-17:45: Frankfurter Seminar Colloquium by Josephine Yu (Lecture Hall of the Physikalischer Verein)

• 17:45-19:30: Reception at Physikalischer Verein

Friday, Dec. 6

• 9:30-10:30: Giulia Codenotti

• 10:30-11:00: Coffee break

• 11:00-12:00: Omid Amini 

Registration and Funding

We have now allocated all our funding for junior participants. If you want to participate without funding, please contact one of the organizers by email. 

Practical Aspects - Time and Location

The Workshop will begin on Dec. 4 at 2 pm and end on Dec. 6 at noon. Most talks will take place in the Hilbertraum (Room 302) at Robert-Mayer-Str. 8. Josephine Yu's talk and the pre-talk will take place in the main lecture hall of the Physikalischer Verein in Robert-Mayer-Str. 2. 

Zoom coordinates

https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/61703713225?pwd=0mQcZx9ZmzSaM6VbsbaPdjR2UWBaaj.1

Meeting ID: 617 0371 3225

Passcode: matroid

How to get here?

Frankfurt is located very much in the center of Europe and there are trains from many European cities that get you to its main station (Frankfurt (Main) Hbf). You can also take a flight to Frankfurt Airport. 

From Frankfurt Airport you can take S-Bahn line 8 (or 9) to get to get to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf. From Frankfurt's main train station you can take U-Bahn line 4 to its final stop, Bockenheimer Warte, which is where our campus is located.

Please note that the airport Frankfurt-Hahn is much further from Frankfurt and, due to a lack of convenient public transport options, we do not recommend that you use this airport to get to Frankfurt. 

Acknowledgements

This conference is funded by Goethe University Frankfurt, the SPP 2458 "Combinatorial Synergies", and the CRC 326 Geometry and Arithmetic of Uniformized Structures (GAUS). 

Vector image by VectorStock / Robot