Curriculum Vitae

Paolo Mantero


 
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PAOLO MANTERO
Mathematics Department
Purdue University

150 N University St
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
Office Phone:  +1-(765)-494-5964
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~pmantero



Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, August 2012 (expected)
Purdue University, IN (USA)
Dissertation: Linkage and Hilbert functions.
Advisor: Prof. Bernd Ulrich.


M.Sc. in Mathematics, Summa cum laude, July 2006
Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova (Italy)
Dissertation: Graded Minimal Free Resolutions of Level Algebras. (in Italian)
Advisors: Prof. Giuseppe Valla, Prof. Maria Evelina Rossi.


B.Sc. in Mathematics, Summa cum laude, September 2004
Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova (Italy)
Advisor: Prof. Giuseppe Valla.

Positions June 2011 - June 2012                    Bilsland Dissertation Fellow, at Purdue University (College of Science).

August 2006--                                 Graduate/Teaching Assistant at the Purdue University.


Publications & Preprints On the Cohen-Macaulayness of the conormal module of an ideal (with Y. Xie), 24 pages, submitted. Available from the arxiv.


Generalized stretched ideals and Sally's conjecture (with Y. Xie), 28 pages, preprint. Available from the arxiv.


Linkage theory for non licci ideals, 21 pages, preprint.


A note on symbolic powers and a Conjecture of Harbourne-Huneke, (wht Y. Xie) in preparation.


Structure theorems for some classes of m-primary ideals , in preparation.


Characterizing the sum of geometrically linked ideals, in preparation.




Awards & Grants Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, from the Purdue University, College of Science (awarded, in average, to 10 students in the College of Science), June 2011 - June 2012.



Graduate Student Travel Grant, from the American Mathematical Society, March 2012.



Mathematics Research Communities Travel Grant , from the American Mathematical Society, February 2012.



Graduate Student Travel Grant, from the American Mathematical Society, October 2011.



Mathematics Research Communities Travel Grant , from the American Mathematical Society, June - July 2010.



Graduate Teaching Assistantship from Purdue University, August 2006 - present.


M.Sc. in Mathematics, 100/100 cum Laude, July 2006.


National Fellowship from Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica F.Severi (Italian Institute of Advanced Studies in Mathematics F.Severi),
August 2004 - July 2006.


Outstanding Student Award, from the University of Genova (awarded to selected students in the whole university), June 2003 - June 2004.


Outstanding Student Award, from the University of Genova (awarded to selected students in the whole university), June 2002 - June 2003.





Invited Talks Liaison classes of non-licci ideals, University of Illinois (UIUC), IL, April 2012.

Hilbert functions, associated graded rings and Sally's Conjecture (2 talks), University of Nebraska, NE, April 2012.

An approach to study the liaison classes of non-licci ideals, AMS at the University of Kansas, KS, March 2012.

Liaison classes of non-licci ideals, New Mexico State University, NM, March 2012.

Linkage and some of its applications, University of Kansas, KS, February 2012.

Minimal elements of linkage classes, University of Kentucky, KY, January 2012.

Linkage and Homological Equivalence of ideals, University of Genova (Italy), January 2012.

Hilbert function and a question of Vasconcelos, University of Genova (Italy), January 2012.

Liaison and Hilbert functions, Technical University of Basel (Switzerland), December 2011.

Minimal representatives of even liaison classes, University of Notre Dame, IN, November 2011.

Squares of ideals and a Question of Vasconcelos, University of Kentucky, KY, November 2011.

Minimal representatives of even linkage classes, University of Kansas, KS, October 2011.

j-stretched ideals and Sally's Conjecture, AMS Meeting at the University of Nebraska, NE, October 2011.

Symbolic Powers, Conormal Module and a Conjecture of Vasconcelos , University of Notre Dame, IN, October 2010.

Liaison of Homogeneous and Monomial Ideals,University of Notre Dame, IN, April 2010.
Conferences & Workshops Interactions between Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory (honoring R.-O. Buchweitz), University of Syracuse, NY, April 2012.

Southwest Local Algebra Meeting, Texas Tech University, TX, March 2012.

American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting, University of Kansas, KS, March 2012.

Southwest Local Algebra Meeting, Texas Tech University, TX, March 2012.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, November 2011.

American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting, University of Nebraska, NE, October 2011.

Midwest Commutative Algebra and Geometry, Purdue University, IN, May 2011.

Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics Day IV, Purdue University, IN, March 2011.

Southwest Local Algebra Meeting, New Mexico State University, NM, March 2011.

American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting, University of Notre Dame, IN, November 2010.

Mathematics Research Communities Week, Snowbird, UT, June 2010.

Local Rings and Local Study of Algebraic Varieties, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste (Italy), June 2010.

Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics Day II, Purdue University, May 2010.

MAGIC'10, Midwest Algebra, Geometry and their Interactions Conference, Notre Dame, IN (USA), April 2010.

American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting, University of Kentucky, KY, March 2010.

Conference in honor of Anatoly Libgober, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, October 2009.

Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics Day I, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 2009.
PASI 2009 in Commutative Algebra and its Connections to Geometry (honoring Wolmer Vasconcelos), Olinda (Brazil), August 2009.

International School on Computer Algebra, CoCoA 2009, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barceona (Spain), June 2009.

2nd Bluegrass Algebra Conference, University of Kentucky, KY, March 2009.

Workshop on Commutative Algebra and Applications, University of Genoa (Italy), May 2008.

Conference in honor of Robin Hartshorne, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, April 2008.

Hilbert functions and syzygies in commutative algebra and combinatorics, a conference in honor of Juergen Herzog on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Cortona (Italy), September 2007.

Workshop on Projective Geometry and Commutative Algebra in Applications, University of Genova (Italy), June 2007.

Winter School in Commutative Algebra, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), February 2006.



Teaching Experience Purdue University: Instructor, Spring 2011, Calculus for Technology II, for Technology students.




Teaching Assistant, Fall 2010, Abstract Algebra, for Graduate students in Mathematics.




Teaching Assistant, Fall 2009, Abstract Algebra, for Graduate students in Mathematics.




Instructor, Spring 2009, Introductory Analysis II, for Business, Pre-Medical and Pre-Pharmacy Schools students.




Instructor, Fall 2008, Algebra and Trigonometry I, for Liberal Arts students.




Teaching Assistant, Spring 2008 Precalculus, for Life Sciences students.




Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007 Several Variable Calculus, for Engineering School students.



Languages spoken
Italian (native), English (fluent), German (good).



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