Varieties of Nodal Surfaces, Coding Theory and Discriminants of Cubic Hypersurfaces

Fabrizio Catanese is a leading algebraic geometer, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, the Goettingen Academy, and the Academia Europaea. He has been a Full Professor at the University of Pisa, Italy (1980-1996), at Goettingen University (1997-2001), and since 2002, at Bayreuth University (Germany). He has been leading several research projects, and among others, an European Project Science, a DFG Graduiertenkolleg, a DFG Schwerpunkt Program, a DFG Forschergruppe, an ERC Advanced Grant, in which about 30 students and 30 Postdocs have been participating.