This course has (at least) two target audiences: on the one hand, this
course is for students of algebraic geometry who are curious to see their
field interact with polyhedral geometry, and to even see it applied to
statistics, economics and optimization. On the other hand, this course is
for students of discrete geometry, optimization or combinatorics who want
to get a glimpse of what algebraic geometry is about, and see examples of
applications to their favorite objects.

The goal is to provide background and to get students up to speed so that
they will be able to participate actively in a project group of the
anticipated Thematic Einstein Semester Varieties, Polyhedra, Computation
during the winter term 2019/20.