The Art of Doing Algebraic Geometry

This volume is dedicated to Ciro Ciliberto on the occasion of his 70th birthday and contains refereed papers, offering an overview of important parts of current research in algebraic geometry and related research in the history of mathematics. It presents original research as well as surveys, both providing a valuable overview of the current state of the art of the covered topics and reflecting the versatility of the scientific interests of Ciro Ciliberto.

• Algebraic geometry
• Extendability of projective varieties
• Canonical map of surfaces of general type
• Birational geometry
• Mori Dream Spaces
• Kodaira fibrations and braid groups
• Siegel modular forms and invariant theory
• Intersection cohomology and Severi varieties
• Deformation theory of weighted projective spaces
• Minimal Cremona degree of quartic surfaces
• Hilbert scheme of curves
• Plane curves singularities and double covers of surfaces
• History of mathematics
• Corrado Segre
• Kummer quartic surfaces
• Sextic plane curves and secant varieties of Veronese surfaces
• Seshadri constants of toric surfaces
• Hyperkähler varieties and motives
• Flexibility of affine varieties and Fano-Mukai fourfolds
• Apollonius

• Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

  Thomas Dedieu

• Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italy

  Flaminio Flamini

• Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Trento, Povo, Italy

  Claudio Fontanari

• Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

  Concettina Galati

• Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

  Rita Pardini

Thomas Dedieu is Maitre de Conférence at the University of Toulouse. His research area is algebraic geometry, and more specifically K3 surfaces, canonical curves, and their extensions, Severi varieties, and projective geometry.

Flaminio Flamini is Full Professor of Geometry at the University of Roma Tor Vergata. His research area is algebraic geometry, especially curves, surfaces and vector bundles, their Hilbert schemes and their moduli.

Claudio Fontanari is Associate Professor of Geometry at the University of Trento. His research area is algebraic geometry, especially algebraic curves, moduli spaces and higher dimensional projective varieties.

Concettina Galati is Associate Professor of Geometry at the University of Calabria. Her research area is algebraic geometry, and more specifically Severi varieties, deformation theory of curve and surface singularities, moduli spaces of curves and Brill-Noether theory.

Rita Pardini is Full Professor of Geometry at the University of Pisa. Her research area is algebraic geometry, especially surfaces and their moduli, irregular varieties and coverings.

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