References for 2/11/13:
1. Liu, K. S. Raghavan, S. Nelesen, C. R. Linder, T. Warnow, 2009. "Rapid and accurate largescale coestimation of sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees." Science, vol. 324, no. 5934, pp. 1561-1564, 19 June 2009, doi: 10.1126/science.1171243
2. Liu, K. T.J. Warnow, M.T. Holder, S. Nelesen, J. Yu, A. Stamatakis, and C.R. Linder. "SATe-II: Very Fast and Accurate Simultaneous Estimation of Multiple Sequence Alignments and Phylogenetic Trees." Systematic Biology (2012) 61(1):90-106.
For 10/15: Counting Algebraic Curves with Tropical Geometry by Florian Block
For 9/24: Categories, Products, Projective and Inductive Limits by Gunter Harder (link to ncsu libraries)
For 9/17: Computing Node Polynomials for Plane Curves by Florian Block
Universal Polynomials for Severi Degrees of Toric Surfaces by Federico Ardila and Florian Block
Floor Decompositions of Tropical Curves: the Planar Case by Erwan Brugalle, Grigory Mikhalkin
Introduction to Tropical Geometry by D. Maclagan and B. Sturmfels (the big book, links to Maclagan's website)
Introduction to Tropical Algebraic Geometry by D. Maclagan (shorter lecture, about 18 pages, links to arXiv)