Tristram Bogart

I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University.
You can contact me at bogart(at)mast.queensu.ca.

Research

My research interests are in combinatorial algebra and algebraic geometry. I obtained my Ph.D. in mathematics in 2007 from the University of Washington under the direction of Rekha Thomas. Here is my CV.

Publications

Computing tropical varieties (with Anders Jensen, David Speyer, Bernd Sturmfels, and Rekha Thomas.) Journal of Symbolic Computation , v. 42, 2007, no. 1-2, pp. 54-73.
The circuit ideal of a vector configuration. (with Anders Jensen and Rekha Thomas.) Journal of Algebra v. 309 (2), 2007, pp. 518-542.
Small Chvatal rank (with Annie Raymond and Rekha Thomas.) To appear in Mathematical Programming.

Preprints

Equality of Graver bases and universal Gröbner bases of colored partition identities (with Raymond Hemmecke and Sonja Petrović.)

In preparation

A local obstruction to lifting tropical curves in hypersurfaces (with Eric Katz.)
The polytope of maps between regular polygons (with Mark Contois and Joseph Gubeladze.)
Tropical rational curves on tropical hypersurfaces in projective space (with Erwan Brugallé and Ethan Cotterill.)

Teaching

Current Courses

APSC 174J [linear algebra]

Past Courses

APSC 312 [linear algebra II] in winter 2009 at Queen's
APSC 171 [calculus] in autumn 2008 at Queen's
Math 126 [calculus] in 2007-08 at Queen's
Math 308 C [linear algebra] in spring 2007 at U. of Washington
Math 126 E [calculus III] in spring 2006 at U. of Washington
Math 120 U [precalculus] in autumn 2004 at U. of Washington
Math 126 U [calculus III] in spring 2004 at U. of Washington
Math 124 U [calculus I] in summer 2003 at U. of Washington

ËThis page first created: 9 September 2007
Last update: 1 March 2010. š