Talks and Minicourses

Conference Talks

29. Pluri-cotangent maps of surfaces of general type,
at the workshop Positivity and Hyperbolicity in Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal), July 2, 2025.

28. Groups of order 64 and non-homeomorphic double Kodaira fibrations with the same birational invariants,
at the Conference on Recent Progress in Algebraic Geometry, Gangneum (South Korea), November 6, 2024.

27. Pluri-cotangent maps of surfaces of general type,
at the conference Aspects of Algebraic Geometry, Cetraro (Italy), September 21, 2023.

26. Double Kodaira fibrations with extra-special symmetry,
at the conference Spaces, Structures, Symmetries, Università di Bari (Italy), August 31, 2022.

25.  Finite quotients of surface braid groups and double Kodaira fibrations,
at the workshop Algebra 2022 - South Eastern Europe Mathematics Conference, RISAT (Vlora, Albania), June 11, 2022.

24.  Finite quotients  of surface braid groups and double Kodaira fibrations: an algorithmic approach,
at the special session Algebraic Geometry from an Algorithmic Point of View,  ACA 2021, July 26, 2021. 

23.  Diagonal double Kodaira fibrations with minimal signature, 
at the Minisymposium Arithmetic and Geometry of Algebraic Surfaces (MS-ID45), during the 8ECM (Portoroz, Slovenia), June 21, 2021.  

22. Surface braid groups, finite Heisenberg covers and double Kodaira fibrations,
at the special session Complex Geometry, 12th ISAAC Congress, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), August 1, 2019.

21. Representations of braid groups and construction of projective surfaces,
at the 32nd International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (Group32), Czech Technical University (Prague), July 10, 2018. (Slides)

20. Monodromy representations and surfaces of general type,
at the Follow-up Workshop to JTP "Algebraic Geometry", HIM (Bonn), April 27, 2018. (Video)

19. Monodromy representations and surfaces with maximal Albanese dimension,   
at the Workshop Geometric Galois Theory and Monodromy, Pavia (Italy), September 26, 2017.

18. A family of surfaces with p_g=q=2, K^2=7  and Albanese map of degree 3,
at the Journées AGT, Carry (France), May 23, 2017.

17. On triple planes with p_g=q=0,
at the Workshop on Algebraic Surfaces and Moduli, KAIST (Dajeon, South Korea), April 13, 2016. (Video)

16. New constructions of algebraic surfaces via finite coverings,
at the Workshop Birational Geometry of Surfaces, Università di Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), January 13, 2016.

15. Surfaces with p_g=q=2 and an irrational fibration,
at the INdAM Italian-Korean meeting in Algebraic Geometry, Palazzone di Cortona (Italy), July 1, 2015.

14. Irrational fibrations on surfaces with p_g=q=2,
at the workshop Fibrations on algebraic varieties and related topics, Università di Milano (Italy), September 9, 2014.

13. Numerical properties of isotrivial fibrations,
at the workshop Beauville surfaces and groups, Newcastle University (UK), June 7, 2012.

12. Some surfaces with p_g=q=2 and Albanese map of degree 4,
at the Workshop on algebraic surfaces, KIAS (Seoul, South Korea), March 27, 2012. (Video)

11. Triple planes with p_g=q=0,
at the Winter school on algebraic geometry, Pyeongchang (South Korea), February 23, 2010.

10. Triple covers of the projective plane with p_g=q=0,
at the workshop Algebra and geometry of subvarieties of projective space, KAIST (Dajeon, South Korea), January 27, 2010. (Video)

9. Numerical properties of isotrivial fibrations,
at the Fudan-Sogang workshop in algebraic geometry, Sogang University (Seoul, South Korea), September 18, 2009.

8. On proper polynomial maps of the affine plane,
at the Rencontre d'Algèbre Pau-Zaragoza, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (France), May 29, 2009.

7. The classification of surfaces with p_g=q=1 isogenous to a product of curves,
at the School and workshop on the geometry of special varieties, Università di Trento (Italy), September 15, 2007.

6. Superfici di tipo generale con p_g=q=1, K^2=8,
at the Giornate di Geometria Algebrica ed argomenti correlati VII, Rimini (Italy), May 19, 2004. 

5. On surfaces with p_g=q=1, K^2=8 and bicanonical map of degree 2,
at the Mini-Workshop Classification of Surfaces of General Type with Small Invariants, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Germany), February 15, 2004.

4. Superfici minimali di tipo generale con p_g=q=1, K^2=8 e mappa bicanonica di grado 2,
at the XVII Convegno UMI, Università di Milano Bicocca (Italy), September 12, 2003.

3. The bicanonical map of surfaces of general type with p_g=q=1, K^2=3,
during the workshop "Global Geometry of Algebraic Varieties", Universidad Complutense (Madrid), December 20, 2002.

2. Minimal surfaces of general type with p_g=q=1 and a genus 2 pencil,
during the workshop Algebraic Space Curves, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), September 23, 2002.

1. Minimal surfaces of general type with p_g=q=1,
during the workshop Géométrie algébrique en liberté (GAEL X), CIRM Luminy (France), March 15, 2002.

Seminar Talks

29. Elements of Projective Geometry,
Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Lahore (Pakistan), February 22, 2024.

28. Double Kodaira fibrations with extra-special symmetry,
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), November 28, 2023.

24. Pluri-cotangent maps of surfaces of general type,
Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università di Roma Tre (Italy), June 22, 2023.

23. A pair of rigid surfaces with p_g=q=2 and K^2=8 whose universal cover is not the bidisk,
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Genova (Italy), September 25, 2017.

22. A pair of rigid surfaces with p_g=q=2 and K^2=8 whose universal cover is not the bidisk,
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), July 19, 2017.

21. New constructions of surfaces with p_g=q=2 via finite covers,
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Padova (Italy),  November 10, 2016.

20. Piani tripli con p_g=q=0,
Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche del Politecnico di Torino (Italy), May 11, 2016.

19. Surfaces with p_g=q=2 and an irrational fibration,
Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne (Dijon, France), September 8, 2015.

18. Fattorialità di threefolds con singolarità ordinarie,
Università di Roma Tor Vergata, June 27, 2014.

17. Sulla fattorialità di 3-folds con singolarità ordinarie,
Università di Milano (Italy), July 10, 2013.

16. Deformations of product-quotient surfaces and reconstruction of Todorov surfaces via Q-Gorenstein smoothing,
IMPA (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), February 1, 2012.

15. Deformations of product-quotient surfaces and reconstruction of Todorov surfaces via Q-Gorenstein smoothing,
Universität Bayreuth (Germany), November 2, 2011.

14. Triple covers of abelian varieties and surfaces with p_g=q=2,
University of Warwick (UK), June 2, 2010.

13. Triple planes with p_g=q=0,
Universität Bayreuth (Germany), May 12, 2010.

12. On proper polynomial maps of the affine plane,
KIAS (Seoul, South Korea), October 29, 2009.

11. Algebraic surfaces isogenous to a product of curves,
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (France), July 7, 2009.

10. Fibrazioni isotriviali standard e superfici di tipo generale con χ=1,
Università di Milano (Italy), April 3, 2008.

9. Standard isotrivial fibrations with p_g=q=1,
Universität Bayreuth (Germany), November 31, 2007.

8. Fibrazioni isotriviali standard con p_g=q=1,
Università di Pavia (Italy), May 22, 2007.

7. Fibrazioni isotriviali standard con p_g=q=1,
Università di Roma Tor Vergata, April 13, 2007.

6. On surfaces of general type with p_g=q=1 isogenous to a product of curves,
University of Liverpool (UK), December 12, 2006.

5. Surfaces with p_g=q=1,
University of Warwick (UK), January 28, 2004.

4. Classificazione di superfici algebriche,
Università di Roma La Sapienza (Italy), October 14 and October 22, 2003.

3. Superfici con p_g=q=1,
Università di Roma Tor Vergata, October 10 and October 17, 2003.

2. The bicanonical map of surfaces with p_g=q=1, K^2=8,
Universität Bayreuth (Germany), July 2, 2003.

1. Symmetric products of curves and surfaces of general type,
Centro de Matematica e Aplicações Fundamentais (Lisbon, Portugal), May 9, 2002.

Minicourses

2024

• Series of lectures Surface braid groups, Galois covers, and double Kodaira fibrations, within the Winter Workshop on Algebraic Geometry, Università di Pavia (Italy), February 26-28.

• CIMPA Course Topics on algebraic geometry, COMSATS (Lahore, Pakistan), February 12-23.

2019 

• Series of lectures: An introduction to algebraic geometry, within the Joint Summer School of the UC|UP, MAP-PDMA and PDMat-UA PhD Programs, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal). Here are the scanned notes.

• Series of lectures Classification of Surfaces via Mori Theory, within the Summer School Foliations and Algebraic Geometry, Institut Fourier  (Grenoble, France). Here are the scanned notes, and here are the videos (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4).

2015 

• Series of lectures K3 Surfaces, within the intensive research period Algebraic Varieties and their Moduli, Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio de Giorgi (Pisa, Italy).

2014

• Series of lectures The Milnor Fibration, within the Junior Trimester Program Algebraic Geometry, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (Bonn, Germany).

2012

• Series of lectures Variedades Abelianas Complexas, within the Mathematical Summer Program of the Universidade Federal Fluminense of Niteroi (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).