Research

My research interests include: simplicial volume, bounded cohomology, hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and homotopy theory.

    Preprints:

  1. Displacement techniques in bounded cohomology (with Caterina Campagnolo, Francesco Fournier-Facio and Yash Lodha) (arxiv).

  2. An algebraic criterion for the vanishing of bounded cohomology (with Caterina Campagnolo, Francesco Fournier-Facio and Yash Lodha) (arXiv).

  3. Bounded acyclicity and relative simplicial volume (with Kevin Li and Clara Löh) (arXiv).

    Accepted/Published papers:

  4. Bounded cohomology classes of exact forms (with Ludovico Battista, Stefano Francaviglia, Filippo Sarti and Alessio Savini), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 152 (2024), 71-80 (arXiv) (journal).

  5. Amenability and acyclicity in bounded cohomology (with George Raptis), Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 39 (6) (2023), 2371-2404 (journal OA)(arXiv).

  6. Bounded cohomology of finitely presented groups: Vanishing, non-vanishing and computability (with Francesco Fournier-Facio and Clara Löh), To appear in Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (arXiv).

  7. On the simplicial volume and the Euler characteristic of (aspherical) manifolds (with Clara Löh and George Raptis), Res. Math. Sci. 9 (44) (2020), 1-36 (journal OA) (arXiv).

  8. Amenable covers and integral foliated simplicial volume (with Clara Löh and Roman Sauer), New York J. Math. 28 (2022), 1112-1136 (journal OA) (arXiv).

  9. Bounded cohomology and binate groups (with Francesco Fournier-Facio and Clara Löh), J. Aust. Math. Soc. 115 (2023), 204-239 (journal OA) (arXiv).

  10. Topological volumes of fibrations: A note on open covers (with Clara Löh), Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 152 (5) (2022), 1340-1360 (journal) (arXiv).

  11. Multiplicative constants and maximal measurable cocycles in bounded cohomology (with Alessio Savini), Ergod. Theory Dyn. Syst. 42 (2022), 3490-3525 (journal OA) (arXiv).

  12. Stable integral simplicial volume of 3-manifolds (with Daniel Fauser, Clara Löh and José Pedro Quintanilha), J. Topol. 14 (2) (2021), 608-640 (journal OA) (arXiv).

  13. Amenable category and complexity (with Pietro Capovilla and Clara Löh), Algebr. Geom. Topol. 22 (3) (2022), 1417-1459 (journal) (arXiv).

  14. A Matsumoto-Mostow result for Zimmer's cocycles of hyperbolic lattices (with Alessio Savini) Transform. Groups 27 (4) (2022), 1337--1392 (journal OA) (arXiv).

  15. Simplicial volume via normalised cycles (with Clara Löh), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 148 (2020), 5437-5440 (journal) (arXiv).

  16. Gromov's theory of multicomplexes with applications to bounded cohomology and simplicial volume (with Roberto Frigerio), Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 283 (1402) (2023), 1-166 (journal) (arXiv).

  17. Ideal simplicial volume of manifolds with boundary (with Roberto Frigerio), Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2021 (7) (April 2021), 5214-5260 (journal) (arXiv).

  18. On volumes of truncated tetrahedra with constrained edge lengths (with Roberto Frigerio), Period. Math. Hungar. 79 (1) (2019), 32-49 (journal) (arXiv).

  19. Abstract sectional category in model structures on topological spaces (with Aniceto Murillo), Topology Appl. 199 (2016), 23-31 (journal)(arXiv).

    Research reports:

  20. Stable integral simplicial volume of 3-manifolds - Oberwolfach Reports 17 (1) (2020), 417-463 (online version).

    Book chapters:

  21. Gromov's Mapping Theorem via multicomplexes (chapter in the book Bounded Cohomology and Simplicial Volume, the book file can be found here).

    PhD thesis:

  22. On Gromov's theory of multicomplexes: the original approach to bounded cohomology and simplicial volume, Phd thesis, Pisa 2018, (available here, https://doi.org/10.13131/unipi/etd/11242018-182437). It was awarded as the best PhD thesis in the areas of Mathematics, Physics, Informatics and Earth Science defended at the University of Pisa (2019).

Editorial work

  • Bounded Cohomology and Simplicial Volume (editor together with Caterina Campagnolo, Francesco Fournier-Facio and Nicolaus Heuer) To appear in LMS Lectures Note Series (In this page you may find a preliminary version, while here you may find the link to the official LMS page).

    Forthcoming talks:

    Talks, Seminars and Posters:

  • 11/04/2024 - An introduction to acyclicity in bounded cohomology - Seminario di Geometria (università di Firenze, Italy).
  • 04/09/2023 - Simplicial volume and amenable covers - XII Congresso UMI - Sezione Topologia and Geometria Differenziale (Univeristà di Pisa, Italy).
  • 24/05/2023 - Acyclicity in bounded cohomology - Geometry seminar - University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy).
  • 24/05/2023 - Simplicial volume and aspherical manifolds - Geometry seminar - ETHZ (Zürich, Switzerland).
  • 01/03/2023 - Simplicial volume and amenable covers - UPM (Madrid, Spain).
  • 28/02/2023 - Acyclicity in bounded cohomology - UAM (Madrid, Spain).
  • 30/01/2023 - Chern conjecture and simplicial volume - IYSBC-SV (online seminar).
  • 27/05/2022 - Introdution to bounded cohomology, part 2 - Seminari TGV (Università di Bologna).
  • 20/05/2022 - Introduction to bounded cohomology, part 1 - Seminari TGV (Università di Bologna).
  • 06/05/2022 - New computations in bounded cohomology - Online seminar on Probabilistic and Geometric Group Theory (online seminar).
  • 04/05/2022 - Simplicial volume and aspherical manifolds - Seminari di Geometria (Università di Pisa, Italy).
  • 08/04/2022 - Cenni di teoria geometrica dei gruppi - TGV Seminars (Università di Bologna, Italy) (streaming here).
  • 22/02/2022 - Simplicial volume and aspherical manifolds - Algebra and Geometry Seminar (Universià di Bologna, Italy).
  • 10/02/2022 - Aspherical manifolds and simplicial volume - Topology and geometric group theory seminars at Ohio State University (online seminar, video here) (OSU, United States).
  • 11/01/2022 - On the simplicial volume and Euler characteristic of (aspherical) manifolds - Topology seminars (online seminar) (Bonn Mathematical Insitute, Germany).
  • 07/12/2021 - Aspherical manifolds and simply(cial) thanks à vous(lume) - LKS (Universität Regensburg, Germany).
  • 30/09/2021 - Acyclicity and amenability in bounded cohomology - DMV-ÖMG-Jahrestagung 2021, Sektion Geometrie und Topologie. (Online - Universität Passau).
  • 02/07/2021 - Vanishing results of topological volumes via open covers - Real and complex manifolds. The mathematical heritage of Edoardo Vesentini. (Online - Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) (slides).
  • 04/05/2021 - LS-cat and applications - LKS Seminar (online seminar), (Universität Regemsburg, Germany).
  • 11/01/2021 - Gromov's question and Euler characteristic - HIOB (online seminar), (Universität Regensburg, Germany).
  • 02/11/2020 - Gromov's Mapping Theorem via multicomplexes - IYSBC-SV (online seminar, video here)
  • 06/10/2020 - Stable integral simplicial volume - Trends in LDT (online seminar, video here).
  • 07/05/2020 - Simplicial volume via normalised cycles - LKS Seminar (online talk, video here) (Univertät Regensburg, Germany).
  • 14/02/2020 - Stable integral simplicial volume of 3-manifolds - Manifolds and groups (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), Germany).
  • 30/01/2020 - Volumen simplicial entero estable de 3-variedades - V Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores de la RSME. Session: Topology (Universitat Jaume I, Spain).
  • 12/12/2019 - Stable integral simplicial volume of 3-manifolds - AG Topologie Seminars (KIT, Germany).
  • 06/12/2019 - Stable integral simplicial volume of 3-manifolds - Bavarian Geometry and Topology Meeting (Universität Augsburg).
  • 23/11/2019 - On Gromov's theory of multicomplexes: the original approach to bounded cohomology and simplicial volume - PhD Talent 2019 (Short talk during the celebration for the prize "Best PhD Thesis") (Università di Pisa, Italy).
  • 01/08/2019 - Ideal simplicial volume of manifolds with boundary - Workshop on Bounded Cohomology (Universiät Heidelberg, Germany).
  • 09/07/2019 - Simplicial volume of non-compact manifolds - BAD (Borsisti, Assegnisti, Dottorandi) Seminars (Università di Bologna, Italy).
  • 03/06/2019 - Simplicial volume and amenable covers - Junior Geometry and Topology Seminar (Warwick University, U.K.).
  • 15/04/2019 - Simplicial volume and amenable coverings - Colloquium of the Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy).
  • 08/04/2019 - Gromov's theory of multicomplexes with applications to closed manifolds - Workshop: Riemannian and Simplicial Volume (KIT, Germany).
  • 05/02/2019 - Simplicial volume and amenable coverings - SFB Lectures (Universität Regensburg, Germany).
  • 22/11/2018 - Why do we care about multicomplexes? - Baby-Geometri Seminars (Università di Pisa, Italy).
  • 19/10/2018 - Poster: Una introducción al volumen simplicial ideal - XXV Encuentro de Topología (Insitut d' Etudis Catalanes, Barcelona, Spain) (Poster en Español).
  • 18/10/2018 - Una introducción al volumen simplicial ideal - VII Encuentro de Jóvenes Topólog@s (CRM de Barcelona, Spain).
  • 17/09/2018 - An introduction to ideal simplicial volume - UMI-SIMAI-PTM Joint Meeting. Session: Geometric topology, Manifolds, and Group Actions (University of Wroclaw, Poland)(Slides).
  • 23/05/2018 - An introduction to ideal simplicial volume - Oberseminar Globale Analysis (Universität Regensburg, Germany).
  • 18/05/2018 - An introduction to ideal simplicial volume - AG Topologie Seminars (KIT, Germany).
  • 17/05/2018 - An introduction to simplicial volume - Geometry Graduate Colloquium (ETH Zürich, Switzerland).
  • 11/04/2018 - An introduction to ideal simplicial volume - Seminari di Geometria (Università di Pisa, Italy).
  • 12/03/2018 - Poster: Ideal simplicial volume - Young Geometric Group Thoery VII (Les Diablerets, Switzerland)(Poster about the ideal simplicial volume).
  • 02/03/2018 - Simplicial Volume: when volume becomes a topological invariant - Insalate di Matematica (Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy).
  • 01-03/02/2018 - Poster: Ideal simplicial volume - Workshop 2018: varietà reali e complesse: geometria, topologia e analisi armonica (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy).
  • 04/12/2017 - Lecture on mathematical good manners: the Gromov norm - BAD (Borsisti, Assegnisti, Dottorandi) Seminars (Università di Bologna, Italy).
  • 11/09/2017 - Poster: Ideal Simplicial Volume - Ventotene International Conference 2017: Moduli Spaces (Ventotene, Italy).
  • 21/10/2016 - Poster: El volumen simplicial: una introducción - XXIII Encuentro de Topología (Universidad de Málaga, Spain) (Poster en Español).
  • 20/10/2016 - Categoría seccional abstracta en diferentes estructuras de modelo sobre los espacios topológicos -V Encuentro de Jóvenes Topólogos (Universidad de Málaga, Spain) (Slides en Español).
  • 02/12/2015 - Topological invariants in model categories - Baby-Geometri Seminars (Università di Pisa, Italy).
  • 25/06/2015 - On abstract topological complexity in model categories over topological spaces - InSeGTo (Universidad de Málaga, Spain).
    Updated 29 Jan 2024
    by Marco Moraschini.