Patrick Popescu-Pampu

Title: A tropical and logarithmic study of Milnor fibers
    
Abstract: I will present joint work with Maria Angelica Cueto and Dmitry Stepanov, explaining how to combine
tools from tropical and logarithmic geometries in order to understand the structure of Milnor fibers of complex
singularities. As an illustration of the general technique, I will sketch a proof of the so-called "Milnor fiber
conjecture" of Neumann and Wahl, which expresses iteratively the Milnor fibers of certain complex surface
singularities in terms of the Milnor fibers of simpler singularities.