Damiano Testa
Business Address:
401 Malott Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4201 USA
(607) 255-4089
[email protected]
Home Address:
113-115 Valentine Pl, Apt 501
Ithaca, NY 14850
Area: Algebraic Geometry.
Personal: Born September 18, 1978 in Rome, Italy. Italian citizen.
Education:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2005.
Advisor: Prof. Aise Johan de Jong.
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” Laurea di Dottore in Matematica con lode,
2001.
Advisor: Prof. Corrado de Concini.
Employment:
Cornell University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2005-06
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001-2005.
Awards and Grants:
Charles and Holly Housman Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005.
Summer Teaching, Differential Equations 18.03, MIT, 2004.
Summer Teaching, Differential Equations 18.03, MIT, 2003.
Mentor for RSI, Summer 2002.
2001-2002 MIT Presidential Fellowship.
Publications:
1. Testa D., The Severi Problem for Rational Curves on del Pezzo Surfaces; Ph.D. thesis, MIT, advisor
Prof. A. J. de Jong, preprint.
2. de Jong A. J., Beheshti R., Ghitza A., Lieblich M., Testa D., Elliptic Surfaces; notes for a class by
A. J. de Jong (in progress).
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Talks:
Seminar Talks:
June 10, 2005: “Il problema di Severi per curve razionali su superficie di del Pezzo,” Università
di Roma II “Tor Vergata.”
March 25, 2005: “The Severi Problem for Rational Curves on del Pezzo Surfaces,” Columbia.
March 18, 2005: “The Severi Problem for Rational Curves on del Pezzo Surfaces,” Brandeis.
February 7, 2005: “The Severi Problem for Rational Curves on del Pezzo Surfaces,” Harvard.
February 6, 2005: “The Severi Problem for Rational Curves on del Pezzo Surfaces,” UPenn.
January 31, 2005: “The Severi Problem for Rational Curves on del Pezzo Surfaces,” Brown.
June 7, 2004: “Spazi di Mappe Stabili,” Università di Roma II “Tor Vergata.”
2001-2004: Several talks in graduate student seminars at MIT, including “The h−cobordism
theorem,” “The Banach-Tarski Paradox,” “Quotients of varieties by reductive groups.”
Teaching Experience:
Cornell:
Taught “Calculus for Engineers” 192 - Fall 2005.
MIT:
Course Administrator “Linear Algebra” 18.06 - Spring 2005.
Taught “Differential Equations” 18.03 - Summer 2004.
Rec. Instr. “Complex Variables with Applications” 18.04 - Spring 2004.
Rec. Instr. “Multivariable Calculus” 18.02 - Fall 2003.
Taught “Differential Equations” 18.03 - Summer 2003.
Rec. Instr. “Differential Equations” 18.03 - Spring 2003.
Micro-Teaching Workshop, MIT - January 2003.
Graded “Algebra” 18.701 - Fall 2002.
Service:
Mentor for three practice teachers.
Organizer of BAGS: student seminar in algebraic geometry, 2002-2003 and 2004-2005.
Mentor for RSI: Summer 2002.
References:
Prof. Aise Johan de Jong, MIT
Prof. Jason Starr, MIT
Prof. Joe Harris, Harvard University
Prof. Arthur Mattuck, MIT
August, 2005
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