Here you can find my complete CV
My mathematical siblings are Younes Benyahia and Oliviero Malech.
Publications:
-Valentina Bais, Younes Benyahia, Oliviero Malech and Rafael Torres, "A recipe for exotic 2-links in closed 4-manifolds whose components are topological unknots", Pacific Journal of Mathematics, Volume 338 (2025)
-Valentina Bais and Rafael Torres, "Smooth structures on non-orientable 4-manifolds via twisting operations", Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 57, Issue 6 (2025)
-Valentina Bais, "On Dold-Whitney's parallelizability of 4-manifolds", Topology and its Applications, Volume 359, Part A, (2025)
-Valentina Bais, Victor Gustavo May Custodio and Rafael Torres, "Existence results of Spin(2,n-1)_0-pseudo-Riemannian cobordisms", Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Serie A. Matematicas, Volume 118, article number 130, (2024)
-Valentina Bais and Daniele Zuddas, "On Stiefel’s parallelizability of 3-manifolds", Expositiones Mathematicae, Volume 41, Issue 1, 2023, Pages 238-243.
Oberwolfach workshop report:
Preprints:
-Valentina Bais, Riccardo Piergallini and Daniele Zuddas, "Branched covering representation of non-orientable 4-manifolds", arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09319 (2025).
-Valentina Bais and Rafael Torres, "A cut-and-paste mechanism to introduce fundamental group and construct new four-manifolds", arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.23167
-Valentina Bais, "Pin-structures on non-oriented 4-manifolds via Lefschetz fibrations", arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01848 (2025).
-Valentina Bais, Rafael Torres and Daniele Zuddas, "Some examples of small irreducible exotic 4-manifolds with free abelian fundamental group", arxiv preprint arXiv:2410.06642 (2024).
Seminar talks:
May 2023 -AWM Pitt Grad Seminar
Title: "On Stiefel's parallelizability theorem for closed 3-manifolds" (on zoom)
November 2023-Seminario dei Baby Geometri (UNIPI)
Title: "An exotic structure on a non-orientable 4-manifold via Gluck twisting"
November 2023-TRINO, a 3-fold seminar in Trieste (joint Algebraic Geometry seminar between ICTP, SISSA and UNITS)
Title: "An exotic structure on a non-orientable 4-manifold via Gluck twisting"
November 2024-Algebra and Geometry seminar (UNIGE)
Title: "Constructions or irreducible exotic 4-manifolds with free abelian fundamental group"
January 2025-HF homology seminar (Humboldt University of Berlin) (https://sites.google.com/view/hfhomologyseminar/home)
Title: "Genus Detection in Knot Floer Homology"
January 2025-Working group seminar on geometric topology (Humboldt University of Berlin) (https://sites.google.com/g.ntu.edu.tw/geometrictopology/home)}
Title:"Exotic non-orientable 4-manifolds"
April 2025-Manifolds and groups in Bologna, III (UNIBO)
Title: "Some examples of small irreducible exotic 4-manifolds with free abelian fundamental group"
Contributed talks and short talks:
June 2023-Conference "Geometric Topology, Art and Science" (UNIMORE)
Title: "Spin structures on pseudo-Riemannian cobordisms" (short talk and poster)
February 2024-Winter braids XIII - School on braids and low dimensional topology (Montpellier)
Title: "An exotic structure on a non-orientable 4-manifold via Gluck twisting" (short talk)
May 2024-Matemale Spring School 2024 - New constructions of exotic 4-manifolds (Matemale)
Title: "Lemmas on HF I" (1h talk)
August 2024-Young Topologists Meeting 2024 (Münster)
Title: "Spin structures on pseudo-Riemannian cobordisms" (short talk)
May 2025-Matemale Spring School 2025 - Kohovanov homology and exotic phenomena (Matemale)
Title: "The Conway knot is not slice"
