Damiano Testa - EPSRC grant "Moduli Spaces and Rational Points"

This webpage collects the activities related to the EPSRC grant EP/K019279/1 "Moduli Spaces and Rational Points".

Papers that were published in the period of the grant

Bjorn Poonen, Damiano Testa, Ronald van Luijk; Computing Néron-Severi groups and cycle class groups; Compositio Mathematica, Volume 151 (2015), issue 04, 713-734.

E. Victor Flynn and Damiano Testa; Finite Weil restriction of curves; Monatsh. Math. 176 (2015), 197-218.

Wouter Castryck, Marco Streng, Damiano Testa; Curves in characteristic 2 with non-trivial 2-torsion; Advances in Mathematics of Communications 8(4), pp. 479-495 (2014).

Nils Bruin, E. Victor Flynn, Damiano Testa; Descent via (3,3)-isogeny on Jacobians of genus 2 curves; Acta Arith. 165 (2014), 201-223.

Cecília Salgado, Damiano Testa, and Anthony Várilly-Alvarado; On the unirationality of del Pezzo surfaces of degree two; Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 90:121-139, 2014.

Preprints that were written in the period of the grant

Ciro Ciliberto, Andreas Leopold Knutsen, John Lesieutre, Victor Lozovanu, Rick Miranda, Yusuf Mustopa, Damiano Testa; A few questions about curves on surfaces (Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo (2) 66 (2017), no. 2, 195-204).

Antonio Laface, Damiano Testa; On minimal rational elliptic surfaces.

Andrew Brooke-Taylor, Damiano Testa; The infinite random simplicial complex.

Seminars, conferences, minicourses, workshops

June 1-June 12, 2015 Cabo Frío, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil II ELGA K3 surfaces arising from arithmetic problems
May 5-May 7, 2015 IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Two lectures on rational points
March 27-June 13, 2015 IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Special Thematic Program on Algebraic Geometry
February 9-13, 2015 Università degli studi di Padova, Padova, Italy Conference Recent advances in Linear series and Newton-Okounkov bodies
February 5-6, 2015 Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy Conference Geometria in Bicocca 2015 K3 surfaces arising from arithmetic problems
December 10, 2014 Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Algebraic geometry seminar K3 surfaces arising from arithmetic problems
November 15-17, 2014 Kobe, Japan Collaboration with Andrew Brooke-Taylor
November 10-14, 2014 Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan Conference K3, Enriques Surfaces and Related Topics K3 surfaces arising from arithmetic problems
November 6, 2014 Andrew Wiles Building, Oxford COW Seminar K3 surfaces arising from arithmetic problems
October 15, 2014 University of Nottingham, Nottingham Number theory and geometry seminar The Büchi K3 surface and its rational points
September 8-9, 2014 Università di Milano, Milano, Italy Workshop Fibrations on algebraic varieties and related topics The Büchi K3 surface and its rational points
August 1-16, 2014 Thohoyandou, South Africa Masterclasses for Warwick in Africa
July 14-18, 2014 UNIS, Longyearbyen, Norway Conference Frontiers of rationality
June 30-July 4, 2014 University of Warwick, Coventry Visit of Anthony Várilly-Alvarado
June 12-19, 2014 AUB, Beirut, Lebanon Collaboration with Martin Bright and Ronald van Luijk
June 6-8, 2014 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Conference Edge Days Certain rational elliptic fibrations and their exceptional curves
May 26-June 1, 2014 Rice University, Houston, TX Collaboration with Anthony Várilly-Alvarado and Mauricio Velasco
May 12-16, 2014 AIM, Palo Alto, CA Workshop Rational and integral points on higher-dimensional varieties Special hyperplane sections of Fermat hypersurfaces and sums of roots of unity
April 30, 2014 UGA, Athens, GA Algebraic Geometry Seminar The Büchi K3 surface and its rational points
April 4-6, 2014 Rice University, Houston, TX TAGS The Büchi K3 surface and its rational points
March 31-June 1, 2014 Rice University, Houston, TX Visiting Brendan Hassett and Anthony Várilly-Alvarado
February 18-21, 2014 Teresópolis, Brasil Minicourse at LEGAL Rational points on surfaces
February 13, 2014 Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Colloquium Moduli spaces and rational points
January 30-February 6, 2014 IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Summer minicourse Cox rings of rational surfaces
January 28, 2014 UFF, Niterói, Brasil Workshop em Teoria Algébrica de Singularidades Singular plane sections of Fermat surfaces and roots of unity
January 14-21, 2014 UdeC, Concepción, Chile Minicourse Cox rings of rational surfaces
January 10, 2014 Bellairs Research Institute, Holetown, Barbados Workshop Collaborations Around Rational Points Cox rings of rational surfaces
December 18, 2013 Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy Seminario di Geometria Algebrica Curve di genere due con un'involuzione non iperellittica
December 11-13, 2013 Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland Conference Algebraic and arithmetic geometry Unirationality of certain del Pezzo surfaces of degree two
November 14, 2013 University of Bristol, Bristol Linfoot Seminar Blow ups of P3 along lines
September 23-27, 2013 IMPANGA, Warsaw, Poland Workshop on Okounkov bodies and Nagata-type Conjectures Cox rings of rational surfaces