CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Salvatore GIUFFRIDA
Birthdate: January 1, 1945
Education: Degree (Laurea) in mathematics, University of Catania, March 15, 1971
Academic and professional appointments:
Assistent Professor of Mathematical Phisics
Assistent Professor of Geometry
Teaching Professor of Geometry
Associate Professor of Geometry
Full Professor of Geometry
November 1 1973 – October 10 1977
October 11 1977 – October 31 1992
November 1 1978 – October 31 1992
November 1 1992 – December 30 2002
December 31 2002 – present.
didactic activity:
Professor Giuffrida has teached Geometry and Linear Algebra and Geometry in the Engeneering Faculty
of the University of Catania, mainly in the courses for Civil Engeneering. He has also teached “Algebraic
Geometry”in PHD courses for mathematicians. In the year 2012/13 Professor Giuffrida teaches also
Geometria II for the Corso di Laurea in Matematica. He has directed Doct. Gioia Failla in the preparation
of the PHD thesis “Varietà di Hankel, sottovarietà di G(r, m)”.
meetings:
Prof. Giuffrida is one of the organizers of the school of research Pragmatic; has been organizer of many
mathematical meetings and has partecipated to many meetings. The very last are:
Brolo (ME) workshop “Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry and applications”(main speaker)
September 2007
Catania, meeting “Differential Algebra and related computer Algebra”(organizer)
March 2008.
Messina, workshop “Rational surfaces with applications”(main speaker)
November 2008
Roma, workshop “Geometry of projective varieties”
Sept.–October 2008
Milano, conference “Projective Algebraic Geometry in Milano”
June 2009
Villafranca Tirrena (ME) workshop “Geometrical and combinatorial aspects of Commutative Algebra”
September 2009
Genova, conference “Classical and recent aspects in the study of Algebraic Geometry” January 2010
Levico (TN) meeting “Perspectives on Algebraic Varieties”
September 2010
Morelia (Mexico), “International school and Workshop on the Algebro-Geometric aspects of Projective
Varieties”, minicourse on “Subschemes of the quadric Q = P1 × P1 ”
February 2011
Morelia (Mexico), “International school and Workshop on the Algebro-Geometric aspects of Projective
Varieties”, conference “Scheme-theoretic complete intersections in P1 × P1 ”
February 2011
Torino, meeting “Giornate Commutative a Torino” (speaker) in honour of Silvio Greco
April 2011
Some activities outside Catania:
Visiting Professor at Queen’s University, Kingston (Canada)
Seminar at Missouri University (USA)
Seminar at Notre Dame University (USA)
Seminar at University of Barcelona (Spain)
Seminar at University of Messina (Italy)
Seminar at University of Oslo (Norway)
Seminar at University of Barcelona (Spain)
Seminar at University UNAM of Mexico City
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Professor Giuffrida is active in Algebraic Geometry. His main field is: “low dimensional subschemes of
projective surfaces of low degree”. In the last years, together with Prof. R. Maggioni, he has discovered
new geometrical objects, the “Hankel Planes”, on which he is working.
Since Genuary 2009 prof. Giuffrida Salvatore is the main editor of the journal “Le Matematiche”and
since July 2010 he is “Socio Corrispondente”of the “Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti” (Messina,
Italy).
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