a cover story. What we really aim for, is good coffee.
I recently moved to FU Berlin. Please consult my new webpage.
ETAM 2013:
Etna Triangulations and Algebra Meeting
Hotel Excelsior, in Catania, Sicily, from Febr. 20 to Febr. 24, 2013.
CoMeTa 2013:
Combinatorial Methods in Topology & Algebra
Funded by INDAM. Organized with Emanuele Delucchi and
Luca Moci
at the 500-year old Palazzone di Cortona, Italy, from Sept. 9 to Sept. 13, 2013.
Selected participants.
post by Karim on Gil Kalai's blog, about our work on the Hirsch conjecture
| Papers and Publications |
Preprints:
- Random discrete Morse theory and a new library of triangulations (with F. H. Lutz), March 2013.
- The Hirsch conjecture holds for normal flag complexes (with K. Adiprasito), March 2013.
- Knots in collapsible and non-collapsible balls (with F. H. Lutz), March 2013.
- Smoothing Discrete Morse theory, February 2013.
- Subdivisions, shellability and the Zeeman conjecture (with K. Adiprasito), April 2012.
- Tight complexes in 3-space admit perfect discrete Morse functions (with K. Adiprasito), April 2012.
- Metric geometry and collapsibility (with K. Adiprasito), March 2013.
Published:
- Metric Geometry and Random Discrete Morse Theory. Oberwolfach Reports 9, Issue 2 (2012), pp. 1456-1459.
- Discrete Morse Theory for Manifolds with Boundary. Transactions of the AMS 364 (2012), 6631-6670.
- On locally constructible spheres and balls (with G. M. Ziegler). Acta Mathematica 206 (2011), 205--243.
- Collapses, products and LC manifolds, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Ser. A 118 (2011), 586-590.
- On locally constructible manifolds. PhD Thesis. Advisor: G. M. Ziegler. Berlin, TU Berlin, 2010, 142 pages.
- Non-evasiveness, collapsibility, and explicit knotted triangulations. Oberwolfach Reports 8, Issue 1 (2011), pp. 403-405.
- Knot theory and robot arms. Oberwolfach Reports 7, Issue 4 (2010), pp. 2732-2735.
- The dunce hat and a minimal non-extendably collapsible 3-ball (with F. H. Lutz), to
appear in Electronic Geometry Models
(Eg-Models.de).
- Unmixed Graphs that are domains (with M. Varbaro). Communications in Algebra 39 (2011), 2260-2267.
- Dimension, depth and zero-divisors of the algebra of basic k-covers of a graph (with A. Constantinescu, M. Varbaro), Le Matematiche 63(2008), 117-156.
On the History of Science:
- Gli Archivi della
Scienza. Genova, Erga,
2001, 576 pages (with A. Benedetti). This
is
a
complete
guide
to
all
institutions,
archives
and
museums
of
scientific
relevance
and
interest
in
the
Italian
state.
- L'Accademia delle Scienze di Berlino e la sua Biblioteca. Biblioteche Oggi 26 (2008), 41-47. This is an article about the Prussian Academy of Sciences, founded by Leibniz in 1700, and its precious library. The article was published by a librarianship magazine.
| latest
talks given |
job application material | teaching & personal |
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Seminario di Algebra,
U. Bologna, November 27, 2012. |
curriculum
vitae (Nov. 2012) |
Travel schedule (tentative):
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Boston College Topology Seminar,
Boston, October 25, 2012. |
publications list
with abstracts (March 2012) |
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AMS Sectional Meeting,
New Orleans, October 13, 2012. |
A copy of my PhD thesis and diploma. | |
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UW Combinatorics Seminar,
Seattle, October 10, 2012. |
References: |
KTH Combinatorics Seminar (on wednesdays), room 3733, KTH math department, 10:15 am |
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NAU Math Colloquium,
Flagstaff, Arizona, October 8, 2012. |
Mittag-Leffler Summer School 2012 , Organized with Alex Engström at the beautiful Institut Mittag-Leffler, near Stockholm, from July 18 to August 1, 2012. Selected participants. |
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UCD Geometry-Topology seminar,
Davis, California, October 2, 2012. |
program (in Italian) for the course "Triangolazioni", Univ. Genova, Italy, Nov. 21--28, 2011. |
UCLA Combinatorics Seminar,
Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2012. |
press: interview to Tagesspiegel, nov. 2011 (in German) |
My Erdos number
is 3, after Martin
Aigner and Gunter
Ziegler. Favorite verses; favorite comic strip. |