Alberto Conte

Alberto Conte (born March 22, 1942 in Asti ) is an Italian mathematician who deals with geometry .

Conte studied mathematics in Turin with the Laurea in 1965. After that he was an assistant at the chair for higher geometry until 1976. In 1970/71 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Warwick and in 1982 at the Mittag-Leffler Institute . From 1966 he was assistant professor in Turin, from 1976 associate professor and later full professor of geometry. From 1976 to 1981 he was director of the Institute of Geometry at the University of Turin and from 1981 to 1987 head of the mathematics faculty. From 1991 to 2012 he taught higher geometry there. From 2003 to 2012 he was a member of the university's graduate college for mathematics and supervised numerous doctoral students. From 1984 to 1990 he was Vice Rector and from 1990 to 1996 Vice Rector of the University of Turin. From 2006 to 2012 he headed the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences. From 1977 to 1996 he was on the administrative board of the university and from 1990 to 1996 and 2006 to 2012 in the academic senate.

From 1997 to 2007 he was at the Consiglio Universitario Nazionale (CUN). From 1994 to 2000 he was President of the Unione Matematica Italiana and from 1995 to 1998 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Mathematical Society, of which he was a member from 1998 to 2005. From 1994 to 2006 he represented Italy in the International Mathematical Union .

He deals with algebraic geometry and topology, in particular he studied the problem of the unirationality of algebraic varieties in three and more dimensions. He was the coordinator of the group for algebraic and geometric structures and their application (Gruppo Nazionale per le Strutture Algebriche e Geometriche e le loro Applicazioni, GNSAGA) of the Italian research council CNR. He also dealt with the history of mathematics, especially regarding his predecessors as geometers in Turin Corrado Segre and Gino Fano .

In 1986 he became a corresponding and in 2002 full member of the Turin Academy of Sciences, of which he was president from 2012 to 2015.

In the 1970s he edited the Italian edition of the logic textbook by Joseph Maria Bocheński .

Fonts

• Editor with Gianfranco Casnati and others: From Classical to Modern Algebraic Geometry: Corrado Segre's Mastership and Legacy, Birkhäuser 2016
• Editor: Algebraic Threefolds: Proceedings of the 2nd 1981 Session of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (CIME), Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 947, 1982

Web links

• Biography at the Academy of Sciences in Turin