
Giordano Favi
EPFL SB SMA-GE
MA A2 365 (Bâtiment MA)
Station 8
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 27 78
Office: MA A2 365
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Expertise
Teaching: Algebra (Associative, Linear, Commutative or not), Differential Calculus , Algebraic Geometry/Topology, etc.
Current work
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
Education
Ph.D
| Mathematics
2003 – 2003
Universite de Lausanne
Directed by
Prof. Manuel Ojanguren
Master
| Mathematics
1999 – 1999
Universite de Lausanne
Directed by
Prof. Manuel Ojanguren
Bachelor
| Mathematics1998 – 1998 Universite de Lausanne
Professionals experiences
Scientific Collaborator
Lecturer
Lecturer
Scientific Collaborator
Lecturer
Guest researcher
Guest researcher
Post-doc
Post-doc
Post-doc
Doctoral Assistant
Awards
Coolest Teacher on Earth
University of Antarctic City - North Pole, Antarctica - Planet Earth PO Box 0000
2020
Selected publications
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Published in Unpublished in 2006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Published in Unpublished in 2005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Published in Unpublished in 2006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Published in Unpublished in 2004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
Research
Category Theory
"Category theory has come to occupy a central position in contemporary mathematics and theoretical computer science, and is also applied to mathematical physics. Roughly, it is a general mathematical theory of structures and of systems of structures. As category theory is still evolving, its functions are correspondingly developing, expanding and multiplying. At minimum, it is a powerful language, or conceptual framework, allowing us to see the universal components of a family of structures of a given kind, and how structures of different kinds are interrelated. Category theory is both an interesting object of philosophical study, and a potentially powerful formal tool for philosophical investigations of concepts such as space, system, and even truth. It can be applied to the study of logical systems in which case category theory is called "categorical doctrines" at the syntactic, proof-theoretic, and semantic levels. Category theory is an alternative to set theory as a foundation for mathematics. As such, it raises many issues about mathematical ontology and epistemology. Category theory thus affords philosophers and logicians much to use and reflect upon. [...]"
To quote one of my favorite mathematicians:
"In the years between 1920 and 1940 there occurred, as you know, a complete reformation of the classification of different branches of mathematics, necessitated by a new conception of the essence of mathematical thinking itself, which originated from the works of Cantor and Hilbert. From the latter there sprang the systematic axiomatization of mathematical science in entirety and the fundamental concept of mathematical structure. What you may perhaps be unaware of is that mathematics is about to go through a second revolution at this very moment. This is the one which is in a way completing the work of the first revolution, namely, which is releasing mathematics from the far too narrow conditions by
Teaching & PhD
Past courses
Courses
Analysis A (for MAN)
PREPA-031(a)
This course offers the basic tools in calculus and in solving of equations and inequations on real and complex numbers. The course explores the study of elementary fonctions and is a basis for the calculus course.
Linear Algebra
MATH-111(d)
The purpose of the course is to introduce the basic notions of linear algebra and its applications.