Invited talks
TBD, semi-plenary talk for the “Topological Methods in Algebra and Analysis” session of the conference “40th Summer Conference on Topology and Its Applications (SumTopo)”, Split (Croatia), July 2026.
TBD, special session in “Set-Theoretic Topology and its Related Fields” of the conference “5th Pan-Pacific International Conference on Topology and Applications (PPICTA)”, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka (Japan), September 2026.
Gromov-Hausdorff distance between metric graphs and their subspaces, special session in "Applied Topology" of the conference "58th Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference (STDC)", Newport News (VA, United States), March 2025.
Comparing the Hausdorff and the Gromov-Hausdorff distances between metric graphs and their subspaces, conference "Young Topology and Set Theory Meeting", University of Catania (Italy) and Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (Mexico), January 2025.
What is the “right” large-scale geometry for a locally compact abelian group?, online conference "Algebra, Topology and Their Interactions 2022", Udine (Italy), July 2022.
Weakly weighted generalised quasi-metric spaces with applications to intrinsic entropy, RIMS Symposium "Recent Progress in General Topology and its Related Fields'', Kyoto (Japan), October 2020.
Asymptotic dimension of preordered sets and quasi-coarse spaces, RIMS Symposium "Recent Developments in General Topology and its Related Fields'', Kyoto, June 2019.
An introduction to coarse hyperspaces: some geometric properties and applications to groups, RIMS meeting "Advances in General Topology and their Problems'', Kyoto, June 2018.
Invited seminars
The Gromov-Hausdorff distance at the crossroads of pure and applied topology, “Datashape seminar”, Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France), November 2025.
Gromov-Hausdorff distance to compare chromatic metric pairs, series of online seminars "AATRN Applied Topology Seminar", July 2025. video
Dimension of the Gromov-Hausdorff space and applications to computational topology, "Topology and Geometry Seminar", University of Florida, Gainesville (US), March 2025.
Gromov-Hausdorff distance to compare chromatic metric pairs, "TDA Seminar", University of Florida, Gainesville (US), March 2025.
An introduction to the role of the Gromov-Hausdorff distance in computational topology, "Colloquium UNCG Mathematics & Statistics", University of North Carolina Greensboro (US), March 2025.
An introduction to the role of the Gromov-Hausdorff distance in computational topology, "Algebra and Geometry Seminar", University of Messina (Italy), January 2025.
Obstructions to metric embeddings in computational topology, "Applied Topology Seminar'', Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich (Germany), October 2023.
Every stable invariant of finite metric spaces produces false positives, series of online seminars "AATRN Vietoris-Rips Seminar", March 2023. video
Quasi-metric: a distance notion in non-symmetric environments, "Geometry and topology seminar", IST Austria, Februray 2021.
Towards a unifying approach to algebraic and coarse entropy, series of online seminars "Topological groups", October 2020.
The large-scale geometry of locally compact abelian groups, series of online seminars "Topological groups", May 2020.
Coarse structures on topological groups, ``Matsuyama Seminar on Topology, Geometry, Set Theory and their Applications'', Ehime University, Matsuyama (Japan), May 2019.
The large-scale geometry of (a)symmetric spaces, "Geometric topology seminar", University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), March 2019.
A notion of entropy in the realm of coarse geometry and its relationship with the algebraic entropy, "Geometric topology seminar", University of Ljubljana, March 2019.
An introduction to the coarse hyperspace: An insight on its geometric and algebraic properties I and II, "Geometric topology seminar", University of Ljubljana, February 2019.
Large-scale geometry of asymmetric spaces: an introduction to quasi-coarse spaces, "Matsuyama Seminar on Topology, Geometry, Set Theory and their Applications", Matsuyama (Japan), June 2018.
Large-scale topologies and generalizations of coarse spaces, "Topology/Geometry Seminar", University of Tennessee (US), February 2018.
Selected contributed talks
Gromov-Hausdorff distance between metric graphs and their subspaces, 12th conference in the “Algebraic Topology: Methods, Computation, & Science (ATMCS)” series, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig (Germany), January 2026. slides
Gromov-Hausdorff distance between chromatic metric pairs and stability of the six-pack, 11th conference in the “Algebraic Topology: Methods, Computation, & Science (ATMCS)” series, Bozeman (MT, United States), July 2025. slides
Applications of dimension theory to embeddability problems in topological data analysis: the case study of the Gromov-Hausdorff distance, conference “38th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications”, Coimbra (Portugal), July 2024.
The large-scale geometry of LCA groups, “Toposym 2022, Prague Symposia on General Topology and its Relations to Modern Analysis and Algebra”, Prague (Czechia), July 2022.
The complete list of my contributed talks and posters can be found on the CV page.
Conference organisation
With Henry Adams and Claudia Landi, co-organising a Special Session on Computational Topology: Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications, "Joint Meetings of Unione Matematica Italiana (UMI) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS)", Palermo University (Italy), July 23-26, 2024.
With Lydia Außenhofer, Davide Castelnovo, Dikran Dikranjan, Anna Giordano Bruno and Simone Virili, co-organising the conference "Algebra, Topology and Their Interactions 2021", Udine University, September 2021.
With Federico Berlai, Ilaria Castellano, Menachem Shlossberg, Daniele Toller and Fabio Zuddas, participation in the organising committee of the conference "Dynamical Methods in Algebra, Geometry and Topology", Udine University, July 2018.