I am Franco Giovenzana, not to be mistaken for this guy!
(And neither for this guy!)
I am a postdoc at Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Mathematiques d'Orsay, working in the group of Emanuele Macrì. My research is funded by
ERC Synergy Grant 854361 "HyperK".
email: franco[dot]giovenzana[at]universite-paris-saclay[dot]fr
Université Paris-Saclay
Laboratoire de mathématiques d'Orsay
Rue Michel Magat, Bât. 307
91405 Orsay, FRANCE
Bureau : 3P21
9 - 12 June 2026, Orsay: Workshop “Enumerative geometry, rationality, derived categories and interactions”. Organized with Vanja Zuliani. More information here.
Appointments:
2025 - ongoing Postdoc at Universite Paris-Saclay
Mentor: Prof. Emanuele Macrì
2023 - 2025 Postdoc at Universite Paris-Saclay funded by DFG Walter Benjamin felloship
Mentor: Prof. Emanuele Macrì
2021- 2023 Postdoc at Chemnitz University of Technology
Mentor: Prof. Christian Lehn
Education:
2021 PhD in Mathematics at Chemnitz University of Technology
Adviser: Prof. Christian Lehn
I was awarded the Universitätspreis
2016 Master Degree in Mathematics at Università degli Studi di Milano and Leiden University
Adviser: Prof. Robin de Jong
Unexpected but recurrent phenomena for Quot and Hilbert schemes of points, with Luca Giovenzana, Michele Graffeo, and Paolo Lella, Rend. Semin. Mat., Univ. Politec. Torino, 82(1):145–170, 2024
arXiv:2403.03146
A counterexample to the parity conjecture, with Luca Giovenzana, Michele Graffeo, and Paolo Lella, with Luca Giovenzana, Michele Graffeo, and Paolo Lella, Algebraic Geometry, 12(2):173–188, 2025, doi:10.14231/AG-2025-005 arXiv:2305.18191
O'Grady tenfolds as moduli spaces of sheaves, with Camilla Felisetti, and Annalisa Grossi, Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, 12:20, 2024, doi:10.1017/fms.2024.46
arXiv:2303.07017
Kernels of categorical resolutions of nodal singularities, with Warren Cattani, Shengxuan Liu, Pablo Magni, Luigi Martinelli, Laura Pertusi, Jieao Song, Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 72 (2023), no.6, 3077-3105.
arXiv: 2209.12853
Hodge structures of O'Grady's singular moduli spaces, with Valeria Bertini, Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa, Cl. Sci. (5) 25(4): 2331–2368, 2024
arXiv:2203.07917
On the period of Li, Pertusi, and Zhao's symplectic variety, with Luca Giovenzana, and Claudio Onorati, Canad. J. Math., 76, no. 4 (2024), 1432-1453
arXiv:2202.13702
On the period of Lehn, Lehn, Sorger, and van Straten's symplectic eightfold, with Nicolas Addington, Kyoto J. Math. 63(1): 71–86, 2023
arXiv:2003.10984
On the uniruled Voisin divisor on the LLSvS variety, accepted for publication in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie
arXiv:2007.07570
Geometry and Arithmetic of the LLSvS variety
PhD thesis
Collaborators:
Nicolas Addington, Daniele Agostini, Pietro Beri, Valeria Bertini, Simone Billi, Warren Cattani, Camilla Felisetti, Luca Giovenzana, Michele Graffeo, Annalisa Grossi, Paolo Lella, Shengxuan Liu, Pablo Magni, Luigi Martinelli, Claudio Onorati, Laura Pertusi, Ángel David Ríos Ortiz, Jieao Song.
June 2026, Workshop “Enumerative geometry, rationality, derived categories and interactions”. Organized with Vanja Zuliani. More information here.
2025/2026, Reading seminar “Hodge atoms and irrationality of the very general cubic fourfold - after KKPY”. Organised with Franco Rota. More information here.
May 2025, Reading seminar “The Hodge conjecture for abelian fourfolds, after Markman”. Organised with Franco Rota. More information here.
March 2024, Mini-Workshop Enriques manifolds in Paris, co-organised with Á.D.Ríos Ortiz.
Winter 2023, Mini-Workshop Kummer Days at Paris-Saclay, co-organised with Á.D.Ríos Ortiz.
Winter 2021 Seminar on Bridgeland stability conditions, co-organised with Simone Billi, Francesco Denisi, Annalisa Grossi, Mihai Pavel, Marco Rampazzo at the Universities of Bologna, Chemnitz and Nancy. More info here.
Summer 2021 Seminar on Berkovich skeleta of degenerations of algebraic varieties, co-organised with Emeryck Marie
May 2017 Preparatory lectures for the Chow lecture by Claire Voisin. More info here.
Winter 2022 Exercise sessions for Mathematik III
Exercise sessions for Hodge Modules
Summer 2022 Lecture Complex Geometry
Winter 2021 Exercise sessions for Mathematik I (für Informatiker, Elektrotechniker und Physiker)
Summer 2021 Exercise sessions for Algebraic Topology
Winter 2020 Exercise sessions for Mathematik I (für Informatiker, Elektrotechniker und Physiker)
Summer 2019 Exercise sessions for Mathematik IV (für Informatiker, Elektrotechniker und Physiker)
Winter 2018 Exercise sessions for Computer Algebra
Summer 2018 Crash course on Derived Categories
Winter 2017 Exercise sessions for Singularity Theory