Curriculum vitae et studiorum Elena Guardo Education 2000: Ph.D in Mathematics at Università di Messina, Italy. Thesis Title: Schemi di Fat Points. Supervisor: Prof. Alfio Ragusa. 1993: Graduation in Mathematics with marks 110/110 cum laude - University of Catania, Italy. Thesis Title: Ideali con Numeri di Betti Massimi Supervisor: Prof. Alfio Ragusa; Fellowships 1994: Mino Bontempelli 1994, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei - Rome, Italy 1995: Fellowship of University of Catania Visiting researcher at Queen s University - Kingston - ON - Canada Visiting at University of Genova - Italy Supervisor: Prof. A. V. Geramita. 1996/2000: PhD student in Mathematics at University of Catania. Administrative University: Messina - Italy. 1
2001-2003: post-doc Research Associate, Department of Mathematics, University of Catania. Teaching Experience Assistant Professor at Faculty of Engineering - University of Catania- Italy (March 2001 - Present) November 1999 - October 2000 - Instructor at Faculty of Engineering, University of Catania. Course: Linear Algebra and Geometry for Engineers. Research Assistant Professor: November 1996 - October 1997 - Facoltà di Agraria, University of Catania Course: Mathematics and methods for the applications Conferences, meetings and schools of research attended 2004 1. September, 19-24, 2004 - Workshop on Commutative Algebra with applications in Geometry and Combinatorics - Piraino (Messina), 2. July 19- August 6, 2004: Visiting at University of Nebraska - Lincoln (USA)- Prof. B. Harbourne; 2
3. June 8-12, 2004 Projective varieties with unexpected properties Siena, Italy 2003 1. June 2-7, 2003: CoCoA VIII - COmputational COmmutative Algebra and International School on Computer Algebra - Universidad de Càdiz (Spain) 2. July 20-26, XV Coloquio Latinoamericano de Àlgebra, Cocoyoc, Mexico 3. September, 22-25, 2003 - Workshop on Commutative Algebra with applications in Geometry and Combinatorics - Piraino (Messina), Italy 4. Talk at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - USA, (http://www.math.unl.edu/ seminar/index.cgi?abstract=events/2003112410230.1) 5. November/December 2003 - Visiting at University of Nebraska - Lincoln (USA)- Prof. B. Harbourne; visiting at University of Lakehead - Thunder Bay - Canada - Prof. A. Van Tuyl 2002 1. May 22-27, 2002: Giornate di Geometria Algebrica ed Argomenti Correlati Anacapri- Italy 2. June 6-8, 2002: Conference on Zero dimensional schemes and related topics Acireale (CT) - Italy 3
3. September 20-27, 2002: School/Workshop on Algebraic Space Curves - Torino - Italy 2001 1. June 2001: Pragmatic 2001 - Proff. C. Cilberto- R. Miranda. - Department of Mathematics - Catania, Italy. 2. July 16-21, 2001: CoCoA VII Queens University Kingston Canada 3. September 8-15, 2001: Exterior Methods and other new directions in algebraic geometry - Erice - Italy. 2000 1. February 9-12, 2000: Workshop on Zero-Dimensional schemes and applications - Napoli - Italy; 2. June 7-23, 2000: Pragmatic 2000 - Proff. A.V. Geramita, J. Migliore - A. Bigatti - C. Peterson. - Department of Mathematics - Catania. 1999 1. May 27-29, 1999: International Conference Mathematics towards the third millenium - Accademia Nazionale del Lincei - Rome, Italy; 2. June 2-5, 1999: Workshop on Commutative Algebra - University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy; 3. June 16-20, 1999: Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry - Messina, Italy; 4
4. September 9-10, 1999: GROSTAT III (Groebner & Statistics) - Eindhoven - Holland. 1998 1. January 12-30, 1998 The Intensive Course on Groebner Bases - Research Institute for Symbolic Computation - Linz (Austria); 2. April 27 - May 16, 1998: Conference in honour of David Buchsbaum - Department of Mathematics of Catania; 3. June 5 - July 2, 1998: Research School: Pragmatic 98 on Linear System and Vanishing Theorems Prof. L. Ein - Department of Mathematics of Catania; 1997 1. May 12 - June 14, 1997: Research School: Pragmatic 97, Proff. D. Einsebud e S. Popescu - Department of Mathematics of Catania; 2. June 24-30, 1997: EuroProj 97 - Alghero, Italy; 1996 1. March 10 to 16, 1996: GAEL 4 - Luminy - Marseille (France) 1995 1. March 6-10, 1995: GAEL 3 - Luminy - Marseille (Francia); 5
2. March 30 - April 1, 1995: workshop on CoCoA (Computing Commutative Algebra) - Genoa, Italy; 3. May 22-24, 1995: Giornate di Geometria Algebrica - L Aquila, Italy; 4. June 24-30, 1995: EuroProj Annual Conference 1995 - Nordfjordeid - Norvey; 5. August 13-26, 1995: Summer School of Mathematics - Cortona, Italy; attended course: Algebraic Geometry, Proff. Ottaviani and Decker, vote: She followed the course with great care and made very good progress. She initiated interesting discussion between students and teachers ; 1994 1. July 24 - August 27, 1994: Summer school of Mathematics - Perugia - 1994; attended courses: Algebra and Differential Geometry; Publications 1. E.Guardo, O. Parisi Maximum number of generators of an ideal of points on an irreducible surface of low degree Le Matematiche - Vol.L (1995) Fasc. I, pp 137 162; 2. E. Guardo Schemi di Fat Points Ph.D. Thesis, Novembre 2000 3. E. Guardo Fat Points Schemes on a smooth quadric Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 162, pp 183 208 (2001) 6
4. M. Buckles, E.Guardo, A. Van Tuyl Fat Points a grid in P 2 Le Matematiche Vol.55, fasc 1 (2001) 5. M. Buckles, E.Guardo, A. Van Tuyl Fat Points on a generic almost complete intersection Le Matematiche - Vol.55, fasc 1 (2001). 6. E. Guardo Fat points and partial intersections Preprint 7. E. Guardo, A. Van Tuyl Fat points in P 1 P 1 their Hilbert functions - Canadian Journal of Mathematics, Vol 56 (4) 2004, pp 716 741; http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0203071, 8. M. Buckles, B. Harbourne, E. Guardo, A. Van Tuyl Some Results on Forms of Least Degree in Ideals of Fat Points in Special Position Preprint 2003. 9. E. Guardo, A. Van Tuyl Powers of complete intersections and fat points in special position Submitted to Illinois J. of Math. (2004) 10. E. Guardo, A. Van Tuyl Some results on fat points whose support is a complete intersection minus a point Proceedings of Conference Projective varieties with unexpected properties - Siena 2004 11. E. Guardo A Survey on Fat Points on a smooth quadric Contemporary Mathematics of AMS, Proceedings of the XV Coloquio Latinoamericano de Àlgebra (2004) 7
12. E. Guardo, B. Harbourne Resolution of ideals of six points in P 2 Preprint 2004 13. E. Guardo, L. Marino On the conductor degrees of fat points Preprint 2004 8