Bruno Benedetti

Theorems are just
 a cover story. What we really aim for, is good coffee.
Department of Mathematics
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Lindstedtsvägen, 25
100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

Room: 3532
Tel.: +46 - 8 - 790 - 7251
Fax: +46 - 8 - 723 - 1788
Email: brunoben(at)kth.se

My research is specialized in discrete Morse theory, triangulations of manifolds, and PL topology. I like connections to metric geometry, algebraic topology, commutative algebra and discrete quantum gravity. My postdoc mentor at KTH is Anders Björner; my PhD advisor (2010) is Günter Ziegler.


Mittag-Leffler Summer School 2012:
Discrete Morse theory and Commutative Algebra
Organized with Alex Engström at the beautiful Institut Mittag-Leffler, near Stockholm, from July 18 to August 1, 2012.
Selected participants, May 2012.
  

• Subdivisions, shellability and the Zeeman conjecture (with K. Adiprasito), April 2012.
• Tight complexes in 3-space admit perfect discrete Morse functions (with K. Adiprasito), April 2012.
• Metric geometry and collapsibility (with K. Adiprasito), January 2012, submitted.
• Discrete Morse Theory is at least as perfect as Morse Theory, January 2012.
  
• Knots in collapsible and non-collapsible balls (with F. H. Lutz), in preparation. (See this related announcement, Febr. 2011).
• Random methods in discrete topology (with F. H. Lutz - tentative title), in preparation.

• On locally constructible spheres and balls (with G. M. Ziegler). Acta Mathematica 206 (2011), 205--243.
• Discrete Morse Theory for Manifolds with Boundary. To appear in Transactions of the AMS.
• Collapses, products and LC manifolds, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Ser. A 118 (2011), 586-590.
• On locally constructible manifolds. PhD Thesis. Advisor: G. M. Ziegler. Berlin, TU Berlin, 2010, 142 pages.
• Non-evasiveness, collapsibility, and explicit knotted triangulations. Oberwolfach Reports 9, Issue 1 (2011),  pp. 403-405.
• Knot theory and robot arms. Oberwolfach Reports 7, Issue 4 (2010),  pp. 2732-2735.
• The dunce hat and a minimal non-extendably collapsible 3-ball (with F. H. Lutz), to appear in Electronic Geometry Models (Eg-Models.de).
  
• Unmixed Graphs that are Domains (with M. Varbaro). Communications in Algebra 39 (2011), 2260-2267.
  
• Dimension, depth and zero-divisors of the algebra of basic k-covers of a graph (with A. Constantinescu, M. Varbaro),  Le Matematiche 63 (2008), 117-156.

• Gli Archivi della Scienza. Genova, Erga, 2001, 576 pages (with A. Benedetti). This is a complete guide to all institutions, archives and museums of scientific relevance and interest in the Italian state.
  
• L'Accademia delle Scienze di Berlino e la sua Biblioteca. Biblioteche Oggi 26 (2008), 41-47. This is an article about the Prussian Academy of Sciences, founded by Leibniz in 1700, and its precious library. The article was published by a librarianship magazine.

latest talks given	job application material	teaching & personal
Giornate di Geometria Algebrica ed Argomenti Correlati XI, Centro De Giorgi, Pisa, May 24	curriculum vitae (March 2012)	Travel schedule (tentative): May 13 - May 16, 2012: The Crafoord Days 2012, Lund May 22 - May 26, 2012: Giornate di Geometria Algebrica, Pisa June 7 - June 9, 2012: Comm. Algebra & rel. topics, Genova July 8 - July 14, 2012: Discrete Differential Geometry, Oberwolfach September 27, 2012: UCLA Seminar, Los Angeles October 13--14, 2012: AMS Sectional Meeting, New Orleans
Seminario di Geometria, Universita' di Pisa, May 23	publications list with abstracts (pdf)
Triangulations, Oberwolfach, Germany, May 3, 2012	A copy of my PhD thesis and diploma.
Geometry & Analysis on Groups seminar, Univ. Wien, Austria, March 29, 2012	References: Prof. Anders Björner Prof. Aldo Conca (teaching letter) Prof. John Shareshian Prof. Alex Suciu Prof. Günter Ziegler Prof. Rade Zivaljevic	Summer School at the Institut Mittag-Leffler,   Stockholm, Sweden, July 18 - August 1, 2011.
Triangolazioni, Genova, Italy, Nov. 21, 22, 24, 25 and 28, 2011;		program (in Italian) for the course "Triangolazioni",   Univ. Genova, Italy, Nov. 21--28, 2011.
Meeting of the Swedish Math Society, Linkoping, Sweden, Nov. 19, 2011		favorite verses; favorite comic strip.
Alg. Topology & Combinatorics, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 10, 2011	press: interview to Tagesspiegel,   nov. 2011 (in German)	My Erdos number is 3, after Martin Aigner and Gunter Ziegler.