Hi,
I'm Davide Facchinelli from Italy. I did my bachelor in Trieste (east from Venice for who don't know where it is) and I went to the UPMC (Paris 6) in Paris to do my master: I'm going to start my second year there in september, exactly as Bart, in fact we were in many courses together.
Mathematically I'm more oriented toward geometry, in particular differential topology and differential geometry, and so I'm interested in having a good knowledge of algebra as it can be very useful to study this arguments. Talking about my background I've took courses in Linear algebra, Polynomial rings, Plane algebraic curves and Galois Theory during my bachelor, so at a not too much advanced level. During my first year of master I've attended courses in Algebraic topology (only Homotopy theory) and Lie groups and algebras (but only in the context of the fields of the real and complex numbers).
Thanks! But you haven't renamed the picture!
All mathematicians do know Trieste, since apart from the university it houses TWO
fantastic international institutions, ICTP and SISSA.To show how international they are,
I attach the list of participants of the last event there, I attended. In the 1990-ies, I once
taught a course of representation theory at SISSA at the invitation of Boris Dubrovin,
who himself attended all of my lectures, but a TERRIBLY much more advanced one
(algebraic groups, Lusztig---Kashiwara, canonical bases, crystal graphs, etc.).
Paris 6 is a fantastic University of course, and I think, Institut Henry-Poincare' that
also hosts many major international events, is structurally part of that. Before, it formed
one complex with Paris 7 in place Jussieu, but then both of them moved, I guess.
From what you say, you already know the second half of our course, so it should be
all easy for you!
N.V.