Intersection Theory and Combinatorics: Variations on a ThemeFederico Ardila-Mantilla, San Francisco State UniversityMAA Invited Address Thursday, August 7MAA MathFest 2025 Abstract: My talk will discuss some beautiful objects at the intersection of combinatorics, geometry, and algebra called "Chow rings of toric varieties”. I will discuss three ways of thinking about them: they can be approached using...