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Giordano Favi

EPFL SB SMA-GE
MA A2 365 (Bâtiment MA)
Station 8
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Research: Non associative Algebra, Category Theory, Triangulated Category Theory, Balmer-Witt Theory,  Quadratic Forms in Characteristic 2, Galois Theory, Essential dimension, Tensor Triangular Geometry
Teaching:  Algebra (Associative, Linear, Commutative or not),  Differential Calculus , Algebraic Geometry/Topology, etc.

Travail en cours

Teaching: My current work at EPFL is half time dedicated to teaching mathematics for 1st year students. It is very important to give satisfactory introductory courses to first year students: future engineers need solid basis in mathematics and that is the purpose of my courses.
I also share with passion my vision of mathematics which is a beautiful tool for expressing elaborate constructions by supervising semestre projects in Category Theory.

Research: Categorical Topology, (Higher) Category Theory, Topos Theory, Tensor Triangular Geometry, Essential Dimension, Number Theory, Logic, Applications of Category Theory to non mathematical problems.

Mission

My vision in teaching mathematics is to provide simple explanations for complex concepts. I also like to explain mathematical theories using analogy and comparison with everyday examples.

Formation

Ph.D

| Mathematics

2003 – 2003 Universite de Lausanne
Dirigée par Prof. Manuel Ojanguren

Master

| Mathematics

1999 – 1999 Universite de Lausanne
Dirigée par Prof. Manuel Ojanguren

Bachelor

| Mathematics

1998 – 1998 Universite de Lausanne

Expériences professionnelles

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Doctoral Assistant

Prix et distinctions

Coolest Teacher on Earth

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2020

Publications représentatives

Generalized tensor idempotents and the Telescope Conjecture.

Paul Balmer, Giordano Favi
Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (3), 102, no.6 (2011), 1161-1185 in 2011

Tori and essential dimension.

Giordano Favi, Mathieu Florence
Published in Journal of Algebra, Volume 319, (2008), 3885-3900. in

Gluing techniques in triangular geometry.

Paul Balmer, Giordano Favi
Published in Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Volume 58, (2007), 415-441 in

Essential dimension of cubics.

Grégory Berhuy, Giordano Favi
Published in Journal of Algebra, Volume 278, (2004), 199-216. in

Essential dimension: A functorial point of view (After A. Merkurjev).

Gregory Berhuy, Giordano Favi
Published in Documenta Math. Vol. 8 (2003), 279-330 in

First steps in R-homotopy

Jean Fasel, Giordano Favi
Published in Unpublished in 2006

Morphisms are not triangulated

Paul Balmer, Giordano Favi
Published in Unpublished in 2005

A rational PGLn versal torsor, n odd

Giordano Favi, Mathieu Florence
Published in Unpublished in 2006

Closed essential dimension

Giordano Favi, Michel Matthey (RIP)
Published in Unpublished in 2004

Normal essential di- mension and the topological essential dimension.

Giordano Favi, Michel Matthey (RIP)
Published in Unfinished and unpublished in 2004

Enseignement et PhD

Courses

Algèbre linéaire

MATH-111(d)

L'objectif du cours est d'introduire les notions de base de l'algèbre linéaire et ses applications.

Analyse A (pour MAN)

PREPA-031(a)

Ce cours donne les outils de base pour le calcul algébrique et pour la résolution d'équations et d'inéquations sur les nombres réels et complexes. Le cours explore l'étude des fonctions spéciales et sert de base au cours de calcul différentiel et intégral.