The Art of Doing Algebraic Geometry

This volume is dedicated to Ciro Ciliberto on the occasion of his 70th birthday and contains refereed papers, offering an overview of important parts of current research in algebraic geometry and related research in the history of mathematics. It presents original research as well as surveys, both providing a valuable overview of the current state of the art of the covered topics and reflecting the versatility of the scientific interests of Ciro Ciliberto.

Thomas Dedieu is Maitre de Conférence at the University of Toulouse. His research area is algebraic geometry, and more specifically K3 surfaces, canonical curves, and their extensions, Severi varieties, and projective geometry.

Flaminio Flamini is Full Professor of Geometry at the University of Roma Tor Vergata. His research area is algebraic geometry, especially curves, surfaces and vector bundles, their Hilbert schemes and their moduli.

Claudio Fontanari is Associate Professor of Geometry at the University of Trento. His research area is algebraic geometry, especially algebraic curves, moduli spaces and higher dimensional projective varieties.

Concettina Galati is Associate Professor of Geometry at the University of Calabria. Her research area is algebraic geometry, and more specifically Severi varieties, deformation theory of curve and surface singularities, moduli spaces of curves and Brill-Noether theory.

Rita Pardini is Full Professor of Geometry at the University of Pisa. Her research area is algebraic geometry, especially surfaces and their moduli, irregular varieties and coverings.