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Mara Ragusa, Master student, UniME, Spring 2026 (est.)
Topic: Knots and primes, between algebraic topology and number theory

Francesco Irrera, Master student, UniME, Fall 2025 (est.)
Topic: The Brill-Noether algorithm and Goppa codes

Boldizsar Mann, Samuel Meyer and Yannick Sommer. MPI Internship, September 2023.
Topic: Pierce-Lehmer sequences, and a generalization of the Lenstra-Pomerance-Wagstaff conjecture

• "An introduction to cryptography" (in Italian) - IIS Verona Trento, Messina - April 28, 2025

• "Geometry courses" (in Italian) - Open day, MSc. in Mathematics - University of Messina (Italy) - April 14, 2025

• "Small heights and periodic journeys: my first steps in mathematics" - Algant Alumni Network Seminar (online) - June 1, 2022

• "What is... an L-function?", "What is?" Seminar, University of Copenhagen (Denmark), September 27, 2019

• "Oberseminar in Diophantine Geometry" (together with Evelina Viada), University of Göttingen, Academic years 2023/24 & 2024/25.

• "Séminaire d'arithmétique à Lyon" (together with Gabriel Dospinescu), ENS de Lyon, Academic year 2021/22

• "Second Joint Italy-Brasil Mathematics Meeting", University of Messina, 7-11 September 2026

• "AAN Welcome Day 2023", Online, 29 September 2023

• "Spring school in Arithmetic Statistics" (with Samuele Anni, Nirvana Coppola, Eugenia Rosu, Peter Stevenhagen),
  CIRM (France), 8-12 May 2023

• "Kimingala: celebrating Ian Kiming's mathematics" (with Bryan William Advocaat),
  University of Copenhagen (Denmark), 17 March 2023

• "AAN Welcome Day 2022" (with Riccardo Gilblas and Stevell Müller), Online, 23 August 2022

• "RSVP: Rendez-vous on special values and periods" (with Giada Grossi), Online, 19-21 May 2021

• "Mahler measures and special values of L-functions" (with Fabien Pazuki),
  University of Copenhagen (Denmark), 27-31 August 2018

• Department Board, MIFT, University of Messina (2025-current)

• Joint faculty and students committee, MIFT, University of Messina (2024-present)

• Orientation and tutoring committee, MIFT, University of Messina (2024-present)

I have refereed papers for the following journals: Advances in Mathematics; Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali; Expositiones Mathematicae; International Journal of Number Theory; Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux; Journal of Number Theory; Ramanujan Journal; Research in Number Theory.

Moreover, I have assessed the following MSc. thesis:

• Benjamin Castillo Córdova, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 1st of April 2024.

I write reviews for MathReviews and zbMATH, whose PDF versions can also be found here.