Fabrizio Catanese#
| Membership Number: | 4121 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mathe8.uni-bayreuth.de/Personen/Catanese.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 09/2001: C4-Professor (W3 since 2014) (Lehrstuhl Mathematik VIII), University of Bayreuth, Chair of Algebraic Geometry
- 01 - 03/2000: Visiting Professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee
- 04/1997 - 08/2001: C4-Professor (Gauss Chair), University of Göttingen, Chair of Complex Analysis
- 10/1994 - 03/1997: Professore distaccato al Centro B. Segre della Accademia dei Lincei, Roma
- Wintersemester 1990/91: Visiting Professor, ETH Zürich (Nachdiplom-Vorlesungen)
- 01 - 05/1987: Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York
- 04 - 06/1986: Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego
- 1981/82: Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton (N.J.)
- 11/1980 - 03/1997: Full Professor, University of Pisa, Chair of Geometry
- 09/1977 - 07/1978: Honorary Research Associate, Harvard University, NATO-CNR Fellowship
Fields of Scholarship
- Differential geometry
- Complex geometry
- Group actions on curves and higher dimensional varieties
- Algebraic surfaces and their classification
- Commutative and homological algebra
- Configuration spaces (lemnisctaes, monodromy)
- Topology of algebraic varieties
- Moduli spaces
- Algebraic and projective geometry
- Real algebraic geometry
Honours and Awards
- Conference Algebraic Geometry, Bayreuth 12-14 /03/2015, in honour of his 65-th birthday (80 participants)
- ERC Advanced Grant : TADMICAMT (2014--2019)
- Socio nazionale della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, since 2013
- Volume 54, n.~8 of Science in China (2011), pp. 1521-1814, special Issue, (and a volume of Springer-Verlag, dedicated to F. Catanese) with articles dedicated to his 60-th birthday
- Conference "Perspectives on Algebraic Varieties", September 6-11, 2010, Levico Terme (Trento, Italy) (200 participants), dedicated to the birthday of F. Catanese, C. Ciliberto and A. Verra
- Invited Address, ESOF (European Science Open Forum), Torino 2010
- Plenary address, Joint Meeting of DMV and U.M.I., Perugia, June 2007
- Plenary address, International Mediterranean Congress of Mathematics, Almeria 2005
- Ordinary member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften Göttingen, since 2000
- Corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1998-2013
- Ordine del Cherubino della Università di Pisa, 1995
- Medaglia d'oro (Goldmedaille) della Società Italiana delle Scienze, 1993
- Invited address at the Congress of the European Mathematical Society, Paris 1992
- Plenary address Congresso della Unione Matematica Italiana, Catania 1991
- Premio Bartolozzi della Unione Matematica Italiana, 1984
- Distinguished Visiting Professor: Stanford University (1996)
- Distinguished Visiting Professor: University of Califormia, Irvine (2001)
- Distinguished Visiting Professor: Fred Gehring Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2006)
- KIAS Scholar, 2010-2015
- Invitation to give Takagi Lectures, Tokyo 11/2015
