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I am a post-doc at the Laboratory for didactics and communication of mathematics.

Department of Mathematics
University of Trento - Italy

via Sommarive 14
I-38123 Trento

Phone number: +39 0461 28 1599

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Interests

Popularization of mathematics, braid theory, knot theory, computer graphics, didactics of mathematics.


Teaching

Spring 2013: experimental mathematics laboratory at school level, University of Trento (in Italian)

Teaching assistant

Spring 2012: experimental mathematics laboratory at school level, University of Trento (in Italian)

Spring 2011: experimental mathematics laboratory at school level, University of Trento (in Italian)

Spring 2010: geometria 2, University of Trento (in Italian)

Spring 2007: Stochastik für Informatiker, Universität Tübingen (in German)


Current projects

Animations on knotted surfaces, welded braids and ribbon knots.

Math.en.jeans: local organizer for Trentino-Alto Adige 2012-2013.

An exhibit and a video for MUSE, the new science museum of Trento.

Planning activities for students about hyperbolic geometry.

Teacher training and loan of teaching material for the educational workshops (see the lab page, in italian).

Matematica in città: a project for the popularization of maths in Bolzano.


Publications (popularization)

Braids: a movie to popularise the mathematical theory of braids, Proceedings of the International Conference Aplimat, Bratislava (2013), to appear.

Il gruppo delle trecce, XlaTangente n. 35, ottobre 2012.

Il mondo matematico delle trecce, XlaTangente n. 34, agosto 2012.

with D. Luminati, How to see a cube moving into its mirror image, The Mathematical Gazette, November 2012.


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