
I will explain how tropical curves arise when studying holomorphic curves
under certain degenerations, and what role tropical curves play in calculating
Gromov-Witten invariants.
Links:
[1] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/158