Luca M. Di Gravina

[l.digravina]

Hi everybody
my complete name is Luca Maria Di Gravina, but I like being called simply Luca. I am from Milan (Italy), where I attend my master degree courses in Mathematics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. I got there also my three-years-bachelor last September, with a thesis (brief conclusive elaborate) about valuation of fields and classification of non-discrete locally compact fields. My advisor was Prof. Thomas Weigel, who taught in Perugia last August ( and that's maybe the reason why every year many of us from Bicocca are interested in this summer school).
I didn't have a too specific competence in algebra at bachelor degree, attending standard courses of Algebra I, II and III, which covered elements of group and ring theory, fields and Galois theory. Probably I studied more analysis and geometry. But now at master degree I have in my "curriculum studiorum" some other algebraic courses, such as one on representation theory ( with Prof. Di Martino), one about linear codes / linear algebra over finite fields ( with Prof. Previtali) and one on Bass-Serre theory.
Even though algebraic themes are my favourite part and maybe also the main interest, I really like when they intersect with topological and analytical arguments, showing connection with so different (in my opinion) branches of mathematics.

I love swimming, especially in summer, but I can wait for a month. Now I hope that this time in Perugia will be a great experience for everyone of us :)
Mathematics, sightseeing and typical food of Umbria are an interesting combination.

Best regards,
Luca

[Vavilov Nikolai]

 

 

28.07.2017, 02:17, "l.digravina" <l.dig...@campus.unimib.it>:

Caro Luca, tante grazie!

It seems you are VERY well advised on the subject of our course by the people who know much

more about representations of finite groups, than I do. In fact, Lino Di Martino got his Ph.D. in

Birmingham on EXACTLY this subject, together with our common close Iranian friend, Reza Darafsheh.

Lino is my CLOSEST personal friend EVER, whom I've met after graduating the University as a

student. He is a person of IMMENSE culture and influenced my life in many ways. He first brought me

to Italy back in 1990 (Milano, Firenze, Roma, Padova and Venezia), and then drove me from Milano to

THIS part of Italy (Pisa, Massa Marittima, Siena, Montepulciano, Montalcino, Orvieto, Perugia, Assisi,

Gubbio, Spoleto, Todi, ...) in 1992. EXACTLY 2 weeks ago, on Bastille Day, he turned 70, and in October

there will be a Group Theory conference in Gargnano in his honour, so I'm obviously coming to MIlano

and Lago di Garda for the event.

We are also very close with Thomas Weigel, both mathematically, and personally. To say that Thomas

taught in Perugia LAST August is quite a bit of an understatement. In fact, lately he teaches algebra course

in Perugia every even year, while I'm teaching it every odd year.

I'm not switching to the Meneghin mode, since that would bring us far too far.

 

N.V.