Configuration Spaces

Matematico-Padova, and Communications in Contemporary Mathematics. He was a plenary speaker for the European Congress of Mathematics (Paris) in 1992. He has made important contributions to several areas of algebra and algebraic geometry, e.g. invariant theory, commutative algebra, algebraic and quantic group theory, the Schottky problem, and hyperplane arrangements.

Eva-Maria Feichtner was born in 1972. She received a PhD in mathematics from TU Berlin in 1997. After postdoctoral appointments at MIT and at the Institute for Advanced Studies, she was an assistant professor at ETH Zurich and was awarded a research professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2006 she was appointed professor of topology at the University of Stuttgart; since 2007 she has served as a professor of algebra at the University of Bremen, where she co-directs the Institute for Algebra, Geometry, Topology and their Applications (ALTA). She has been a visiting scholar at many research institutions, notably at MSRI, Berkeley, as research professor and as program organizer. Her research interests lie in the interplay of algebra, geometry, topology and combinatorics, notably in arrangements of hyperplanes, toric varieties and tropical geometry. She serves on the editorial board of Advances in Applied Mathematics.

Giovanni Gaiffi was born in 1970. He received his degree in Mathematics from the University of Pisa in 1993 and attended the Scuola Normale, where he also completed his PhD in Mathematics under the direction of Corrado De Concini in 1999. In 1997 he was offered a research position at the Scuola Normale, before switching to the University of Pisa as an associate professor in 2005. His field of interest mainly concerns algebra, in particular Lie theory, representation theory, and their interplay with combinatorics and algebraic topology. He has organized international conferences and is co-author of the educational book 'Giochi e Percorsi Matematici'r