Daniele Ettore OTERA

daniele.otera(AT)gmail.com



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I am a (post-doctoral) researcher in pure mathematics (Geometry and Algebra).

Here you can find some information about me and my researches.



Short Vitae    (Short CV:   short-en - court-fr - breve-it - Full CV:  CV-en  -  CV-fr  -  CV-it )

  • Born in 1976 in Palermo, Italy.
  • July 1999: Mathematics Degree (Laurea), Università di Palermo, Italy.
  • June 2001: Master's Degree (D.E.A. - Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) in Mathematics, Université Paris-Sud 11, France.
  • February 2006: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Università di Palermo (Italy) and Universtité de Paris-Sud 11 (France). Co-tutored Ph.D. Thesis.
  • June 2006 - August 2009: Research associate (Assegnista di Ricerca), Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Palermo, Italy.
  • December 2006: Visiting Research Fellow (7 months), Institut Fourier, Université de Grenoble, France.
  • October 2007: Post-doctoral fellowship, Institut de Mathématique, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
  • 2009-2011: Post-Doctoral researcher (Marie Curie - Intra European Fellowship), Département de Mathématique, Université Paris-Sud 11, France.
  • 2011-2012: one-year stay in Vilnius (Lithuania) to learn Lithuanian language.


Research Fields: Geometry, Topology and Algebra.

  • Geometric Group Theory: discrete groups, quasi-isometries, geometric properties of groups, asymptotic topology and geometry of infinite groups,ends, lattices in Lie groups.
  • Geometric (and Low-dimensional) Topology: tameness conditions for manifolds, simple connectivity at infinity, geometric simple connectivity, quasi-simple filtration, Tucker property, proper homotopy invariants.
  • Group Theory: finite groups, solvable groups, (locally)-compact groups, probability in group theory.

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