I am professor of discrete mathematics at SUPSI (working within DTI, IDSIA and DFA) and a lecturer at Fernuni Schweiz.
My research interests are at the crossroads of combinatorics, topology and algebra, with a view on developing discrete structures for problems in pure and applied mathematics. Other interests include mathematics education at all school levels. .
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Items with * are/have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic (e.g. postponed etc.).

Lecture notes

Combinatorics of Abelian arrangements
Doctoral lecture at University of Bologna, Fall 2019.

Combinatorial Polynomials
Lecture at University of Fribourg, Spring 2020.

Research group / Mentoring

Maddalena Pismataro
Master's student (co-advised with Roberto Pagaria at University of Bologna, Fall 2021).

Tan Nhat Tran*
JSPS/SNF-Postdoc, Spring 2020

Naomi Wicki
Master's student (Spring 2021).

Clara Lemarigner
Master's student (Fall 2021).

Emilie Dennig
Master's student (Spring 2020).

Linard Hoessly
Ph.D. Student 2015-2019
(co-supervised with C. Mazza)

Giovanni Paolini
SNF-Postdoc, February 2019 - August 2019

Farhad Babaee
SNF-Postdoc, October 2016 - October 2018

Davina Grand-Guillaume Perrenoud
Master's student.

Davide Bolognini
Postdoc (Swiss federal excellence fellowship), September 2017 -October 2018

Noriane Girard
Master's student.

Fabian Schneuwly
Master's student.

Giovanni Paolini
Ph.D. Student visiting from SNS Pisa (Spring semester 2017).

Alessio D'Alì
Ph.D. Student, visiting from U Genoa (September 2016- June 2017, Swiss Government Excellence Fellowship)

Elia Saini
SNF-Ph.D. Student Fall 2014 - Fall 2017

Matthias Lenz
Postdoc Fall 2015 - Fall 2017 (Swiss government's excellence scholarship + DAAD)

Ivan Martino
SNF-Postdoc (2014-2016)

Katharina Jochemko (TU Wien)
Visiting postdoc (September 2015)

Sonja Riedel
DAAD/SNF-Ph.D. Student, until September 2016.

Activities

Rresearch seminar and "InterCity seminar" Bern-Neuchatel-Konstanz-Lugano
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Organisation of
Arrangements in Lugano 2022
with C. Bibby, F. Callegaro, M. Yoshinaga.
Lugano, Switzerland.
June 27 - July 2, 2022.

Organisation of
Arrangements at home IV
with C. Bibby, F. Callegaro, M. Yoshinaga.
Online event
June 30 - July 1, 2021.

Lecture at University of Pisa's
Settimana matematica
Online event, April 21-23, 2021.

Organisation of Wissenschaft zum Z'vieri / Goûters scientifques
Fribourg, September 30 and October 7, 2020.
Video reportage on this event.

Matroid Theory with a view towards Tropical geometry

- BeNeFri lecture Fall 2020


Course on combinatorics of arrangements and general-audience lecture on Japanese traditional mathematics, as an ISA visiting Fellow (Guest professor), Istituto di Studi Avanzati, Bologna (Italy).

Combinatorial polynomials

- BeNeFri lecture Spring 2020

Organizing SIAM AG 2019 , together with Jan Draisma, Elisa Gorla and Joachim Rosenthal.

University of Bern, July 9-13, 2019

Combinatorial methods in Topology

- BeNeFri lecture Spring 2019

Introduction to matroid theory

- BeNeFri lecture Spring 2018

Organizing Perspectives in Algebraic Topology -- a day in honor of Mario Salvetti & Arrangements and beyond.

University of Pisa / Centro De Giorgi, June 5-9, 2017

Combinatorial methods in Topology

- BeNeFri lecture Spring 2017

Combinatorics of reflection groups

- BeNeFri lecture Spring 2016

Borel Seminar 2016 - SM'ART

Plancherel Lecture 2015 -
Bernd Sturmfels

Thematic semester Spring 2015

Invited talks

Upcoming

Hot topics: Artin Groups and Arrangements - Topology, Geometry, and Combinatorics.
MSRI, Berkeley, CA, March 11-15, 2024.

Al@bicocca seminar.
Università Milano Bicocca, May13, 2024.

Minicourse st ASGARD math 2024.
University of Oslo, May 27-30, 2024.

MFO workshop Matroids and Logarithmic Vector Fields.
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, June 16-21, 2024.

Discrete and Combinatorial Algebraic Topology, Theory and Applications.
AMS-UMI Joint congress, July 25-26, 2024.

ETH Kolloquium über Mathematik, Informatik und Unterricht.
ETH Zurich, November 21, 2024.

Past

Arrangements in Tokyo 2023.
Rikkyo University, Tokyo, December 11-15, 2023.

Talk at Algebra seminar.
Universität Bielefeld, July 5, 2023.

Talk at GMZ60.
Freie Universität Berlin, May 18-19, 2023.

Talk at Various guises of reflection arrangements.
ICMS Edinburgh, march 13-17, 2023.

Talk at Combinatorial and Algebraic Aspects on Lattice Polytopes.
Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan, February 20-22, 2023.

Talk at Geometry meets combinatorics in Bielefeld.
Universität Bielefeld, 5-9 September, 2022.

Talk at Algebraic, combinatorial, and optimization methods for Kuramoto and power-flow equations.
American Mathematical Society spring sectional session (online), May 14-15, 2022.

Talk at the Algebra and Geometry seminar.
Università di Genova, Italy, May 11, 2022.

MFO research-in-pairs stay.
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, January 2-15, 2022.

Talk at the KTH combinatorics seminar
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, June 9, 2021.

Lecturer at the Graduate Student Meeting on Applied Algebra and Combinatorics
Copenhagen, Denmark, April 15-17, 2021.

Lecture in the Conway spirited lecture series at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Lahore, Pakistan, March 22, 2021.

Outreach

TecDays of the Swiss academy of applied sciences.
Chur (February 2016),
Lugano (November 2015 and 2017),
Locarno (November 2014),
Mendrisio (November 2018)

Giochi e percorsi matematici. (w. G.Gaiffi and L.Pernazza)

Weihnachtsvorlesung 2011 - ``pre-Holydays lecture'' at University of Bremen, in which the Hamiltonian Sonata was first performed live. the score and the slides.

San Gaku - Exhibition about japanese traditional mathematics jointly curated with Maurice Froidcoeur.