Brian Davis, University of Kentucky.

Regular triangulations and Gröbner bases

In this talk we will give a friendly introduction to regular triangulations, which is a tool for breaking down an integer polytope into simpler pieces: high dimensional triangles!  In the second part of the talk we will present a context in which triangulations make a normally difficult computation much easier.   The main theorem, presented without proof, is really charming!  We assume no knowledge of commutative algebra beyond the prelim sequence.

For more details, see Discrete CATS website