Connections to Schubert Calculus Learning Seminar

Valuative invariants of matroids

Graham Denham

One way to define a matroid is via its base polytope.  From this point of view, some matroid invariants easily have geometric interpretations: e.g., the number of bases is the number of vertices of the polytope.  It turns out that most interesting...

Symmetrized Matroid Classes

Julian Weigert

Expressing combinatorial invariants of matroids as intersection numbers on algebraic varieties has become a popular tool in algebraic combinatorics. Several conjectured inequalities among combinatorial data can be traced back to positivity results...