Bruno Benedetti - Freie Universität Berlin

Bruno Benedetti - Freie Universität Berlin

Bruno Benedetti
Curriculum Vitae
March 2011
Freie Universität Berlin
Arnimallee, 2 - Room 107
14195 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 30 838 75650
Email: benedetti@math.fu-berlin.de
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/benedetti/
Professional Positions
2011–2012
Göran Gustaffsson postdoctoral fellow
KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
2010–2011
Postdoc, ERC advanced grant “SD Models’
FU–TU, Berlin, Germany
2010
Research member, “Homology theories of knots & links”
MSRI, Berkeley, California
Education
Technische Universität zu Berlin
PhD, adv. Günter M. Ziegler, summa cum laude, Jan. 2010
Thesis: On locally constructible manifolds (Discrete Geometry, Combinatorics)
Berlin, Germany
Università degli Studi di Genova
MS, Mathematics, summa cum laude, July 2006
Thesis: Il rango aritmetico di una varietà algebrica (Algebraic Geometry)
Genoa, Italy
Università degli Studi di Genova
BS, Mathematics, summa cum laude, July 2004
Thesis: Compositions of bankruptcy rules (Game Theory)
Genoa, Italy
Research Interests
Combinatorial topology and discrete geometry, with a special focus on discrete Morse theory and on
triangulations of manifolds. I am also interested in combinatorial commutative algebra, knot theory,
algebraic topology, discrete structures in physics, and combinatorial versions of the Poincaré conjecture.
Selected Talks
MFO, Topological and geometric combinatorics
Oberwolfach, Feb. 10,
Univ. Basel, Seminar Algebra und Geometrie
Basel, Switzerland, Dec. 17,
Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA)
Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 8,
Aurora Borealis Combinatorics Workshop
Abisko, Sweden, Dec. 2,
UC Santa Barbara, Topology Seminar
Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 16,
UC Davis, Geometry & Topology Seminar
Davis, CA, Nov. 10,
UC Berkeley, RTG seminar
Berkeley, CA, Nov. 9,
U. La Sapienza, Seminario di Algebra e Geometria
Rome, Italy, Oct. 26,
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Combinatorics Seminar
Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 8,
Unstructured meshes in dynamical spacetimes
Jena, Germany, August 27,
Northeastern University, GASC Seminar
Boston, MA, August 9,
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, July 27,
Centro De Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore
Pisa, Italy, June 17,
National Research Council (CNR), sez. IMATI
Genoa, Italy, May 21,
Freie Universität, Topology Seminar
Berlin, Germany, April 7,
Annual Convention of the German Math. Society
Munich, Germany, March 11,
UC Berkeley, Combinatorics Seminar
Berkeley, CA, March 1,
San Francisco State University, AGC Seminar
San Francisco, CA, Feb. 3,
Univ. di Genova, Seminario di Algebra e Geometria
Genoa, Italy, Dec. 23, 2008 & Dec. 15,
KolKom 2009: Colloquium on Combinatorics
Magdeburg, Germany, Nov. 13,
U. Belgrade & SANU Math Institute, CGTA Seminar
Belgrade, Serbia, Sep. 15,
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Publications and Preprints
1. B. Benedetti and F. H. Lutz: Knots in collapsible and non-collapsible balls. In preparation (2011).
2. B. Benedetti, Non-evasiveness, collapsibility & explicit knotted triangulations.
To appear in Oberwolfach Reports 8, 2011.
3. B. Benedetti, Knot theory and robot arms. (Survey.) To appear in Oberwolfach Rep. 47, 2010.
4. B. Benedetti: Discrete Morse theory is as perfect as Morse theory.
Preprint (Oct. 2010, 10 pages) at arXiv:1010.0548.
5. B. Benedetti: Discrete Morse theory for manifolds with boundary.
Preprint (Oct. 2010, 33 pages, 8 figures) at arXiv:1007.3175.
6. B. Benedetti and G. M. Ziegler: On locally constructible spheres and balls.
Acta Mathematica, to appear. Preprint (July 2010, 31 pages, 7 figures) at arXiv:0902.0436.
7. B. Benedetti: Collapses, products and LC manifolds.
Journal of Comb. Theory, Series A 118 (2011), 586–590.
8. B. Benedetti and F. H. Lutz: The dunce hat and a minimal non-extendably collapsible 3-ball.
To appear in Electronic Geometry Models. Preprint (Dec. 2009, 7 pages) at arXiv:0912.3723.
9. B. Benedetti and M. Varbaro: Unmixed graphs that are domains.
To appear in Comm. in Algebra. Preprint (Oct. 2009, 7 pages) at arXiv:0901.3897.
10. B. Benedetti, A. Constantinescu and M. Varbaro: Dimension, depth and 0-divisors of the algebra
of basic k-covers of a graph. Le Matematiche, Vol. 63, No. 2 (2008), 117–156.
Honors & Awards
Göran Gustaffsson postdoctoral scholarship (March 2011).
Full Scholarship of the BMS (2006-2009) and BMS Certificate of Excellence, 2010.
Prize of the University of Genoa among all faculties and years, 2005.
Two national grants of the INDAM (Italian Inst. for Advanced Mathematics), 2001–2004 and 2004-2006.
Teaching
Tutor of the department of Mathematics (2005) and of the faculty of Science (upon competition, 2006)
at the University of Genoa. My role was to guide freshmen and sophomores to the solution of exercises
in algebra, topology, logic and analysis. In the years 2006–2009 and 2010-2011 I could not teach due to
the restrictions of my PhD and postdoctoral scholarships. Since 2010, I am co-organizing the Discrete
Geometry Seminar in Berlin.
Further experience
Language skills: Italian as mother tongue. Fluent in English and German. Good knowledge of Spanish.
Good reading comprehension of Latin and French.
Organizer of the following international conferences:
High-complexity discrete geometry
Berlin, October 4–12, 2011
Participant in the following international conferences:
Topological and geometric combinatorics
MFO, Oberwolfach, February 7–13, 2011
Efficiency of the Simplex Method
IPAM, Los Angeles, January 18–21, 2011
Topological robotics
MFO, Oberwolfach, October 10–16, 2010
FPSAC ’10
SFSU, San Francisco, August 2–6, 2010
The mathematics of Klee and Grünbaum
UW, Seattle, July 28–30, 2010
Local rings and algebraic varieties, in honor of Tito Valla
ICTP, Trieste, June 1–11, 2010
Configuration spaces: geometry, combinatorics, topology
SNS, Pisa, April 30 –June 30, 2010
Discrete differential geometry
MFO, Oberwolfach, January 11–17, 2009
Combinatorics and commutative algebra
Catania, July 1–30, 2008
Festive combinatorics, in honor of Anders Björner
KTH, Stockholm, May 28–30, 2008
Enumerative combinatorics & statistical mechanics
MFO, Oberwolfach, November 18–24, 2007
Hilbert functions & syzygies, in honor of Jürgen Herzog
Cortona, September 17–22, 2007
Further publications
1. B. Benedetti, L’Accademia delle Scienze di Berlino e la sua biblioteca. Biblioteche Oggi XXVI
(2008), 41–47.
2. A. Benedetti and B. Benedetti: Gli Archivi della Scienza. Genoa, Erga, 2001, 576 pages.