Corrado de Concini (born 28 July 1949, in

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

) is an Italian

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and professor at the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...

. He studies

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...

, quantum groups,

invariant theory Invariant theory is a branch of abstract algebra dealing with actions of groups on algebraic varieties, such as vector spaces, from the point of view of their effect on functions. Classically, the theory dealt with the question of explicit descr ...

, and

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Life and work

He was born in Rome in 1949, the son of

Ennio De Concini Ennio De Concini (9 December 1923, Rome – 17 November 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Award in 1962 for the Best Original Screenplay for '' Divorce Italian Style''.Fox, Margalit (28 November 2008) ...

, a noted screenwriter and film director. Corrado de Concini received in 1971 the mathematics degree from

and in 1975 a Ph.D. from the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

under the supervision of George Lusztig (''The mod-2 cohomology of the orthogonal groups over a finite field''). In 1975 he was a lecturer (Professore Incaricato) at the University of Salerno, and in 1976 was associate professor at the

University of Pisa The University of Pisa (, UniPi) is a public university, public research university in Pisa, Italy. Founded in 1343, it is one of the oldest universities in Europe. Together with Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Sant'Anna School of Advanced S ...

. In 1981 he went to the University of Rome, where in 1983 he was a professor of higher algebra. From 1988 to 1996 he was professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in

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, and from 1996 to 2019 professor at the

. Since 2020 he is emeritus professor at the

De Concini was also a visiting scientist at the

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, the Mittag-Leffler Institute (1981), the

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a leading research Institute under the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India. It is a public deemed university located at Navy Nagar, Colaba in Mumbai. It also has a centres in ...

(1982),

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(1987), the

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(1989), the University of Paris VI, the

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(1992, 1996), the

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(2004, Lagrange Michelet Chair), and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (2000, 2002). From 2003 to 2007 he was president of Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi. In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the

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in Berkeley (''Equivariant embeddings of homogeneous spaces''). In 1992, he held a plenary lecture on the first European Congress of Mathematicians in

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(''Representations of quantum groups at roots of 1''). In 1986 he was awarded the Caccioppoli Prize. Since 1993 he is a corresponding member and since 2009 a full member of the

Accademia dei Lincei The (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed"), anglicised as the Lincean Academy, is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy. Founded in ...

and since 2005 a corresponding member of the Istituto Lombardo. From 2021, Corrado de Concini is the president of the Accademia delle Scienze detta dei XL (whose gold medal he won in 1990). De Concini Trubowitz Calogero

Writings

* With

Claudio Procesi Claudio Procesi (born 31 March 1941 in Rome) is an Italian mathematician, known for works in algebra and representation theory. Career Procesi studied at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he received his degree (Laurea) in 1963. In 1966 he ...

:'' Topics in Hyperplane Arrangements, Polytopes and Box-Splines'', Springer, 2010. * With Claudio Procesi: ''Quantum groups,'' in: D-modules, representation theory, and quantum groups (Venice, 1992), 31–140, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 1565, Springer, Berlin, 1993.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:De Concini, Corrado 1949 births Living people Scientists from Rome 20th-century Italian mathematicians 21st-century Italian mathematicians Group theorists Algebraic geometers Topologists Sapienza University of Rome alumni Alumni of the University of Warwick Academic staff of the University of Salerno Academic staff of the University of Pisa Academic staff of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome

Life and work

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