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Andrea Brini

Full Professor

Department of Mathematics

Adjunct professor

Department of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati"

Academic discipline: MAT/02 Algebra

Curriculum vitae

Andrea Brini was born in 1954. Since 1987 he is Professor of Algebra.
The scientific work of Andrea Brini mainly concerns Algebraic Combinatorics and its applications to Algebra and Geometry: more specifically, Invariant Theory and Superalgebras, Grassmann-Clifford Invariant Geometric Calculus, Theory of Moebius functions and Topological Methods, Umbral Calculus (in the sense of Gian-Carlo Rota).
He published about 50 research papers on international journals (Advances in Math., Advances in Appl. Math., Uspehi Math. Nauk, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.USA, Annali Scuola Noorm. Sup. PISA, 
Rend. Accad. Naz. LINCEI,  J. of Algebra, J. of Algebra Appl., Comm. Algebra, J. of Geometry, J. Math. Anal. Appl., J. Comb. Th., Europ J. Comb., Discrete Math.) and invited volumes.


Invited Talks at International Meetings (selection)
- Combinatorics '90 (Gaeta, 1990)
- AMS-MAA Annual Meeting - Special session on Invariant Theory (Baltimore,1992)
- The Grassmann Jubilaeum, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Ausdehnugslehre (Rugen and
Sczcecin, 1994)
- Invariant Methods in Computational and Discrete Geometry (Curacao, 1994)
- International Conference for "XX Aniversario del Postgrado de Matematica" (Caracas, 1996)
- Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire (in honor of G. Andrews),
(Maratea, 1997)
- Umbral Calculus and its Applications, Scuola Normale Superiore (Cortona, 1998)
- The 6th International Conference on Clifford Algebras and Their Applications (Cookeville, Tennessee,2002).
- IWMM04: Constructive and Invariant Methods in Algebraic and Differential Equations (Shanghai, may 2004)
- The International Workshop on Geometric Invariance and Applications in Engineering (Xi'an, may 2004)

- Fpsac '05, Special session in honor of Adriano Garsia (Taormina, june 2005)

- Joint Session of the 55th Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire and XII Incontro Italiano di Combinatoria Algebrica, Bertinoro, 2005
- The Rota Memorial Conference (Milano, february 2009)
- The Grassmann Bicentennial Conference - joint with H. Crapo -
(Potsdam and Sczcecin, september 2009)
- Combinatorics 2010, Verbania, july 2010

Series of PostDoctoral invited lectures (selection)
- Istituto Venezuelano de Investigacion Cientificas (IVIC) and Universitad Central de Venezuela (UCV), Caracas, Venezuela,  september 1996
- Istituto  Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal, july  2001
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, june 2004

- CELC - Universitade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, may 2011



Scientific organization
- Co-Founder of the international annual meeting "Italian Workshop on Algebraic Combinatorics - Incontro Italiano di Combinatoria Algebrica" (1994) and permanent member of its scientific committee.
- Member of the Editorial Board of the international journal "Annals of Combinatorics", Birkhauser-Verlag

Responsabilità scientifica per progetti di ricerca internazionali e nazionali, ammessi alfinanziamento sulla base di bandi competitivi che prevedano la revisione tra pari

Progetto Durata Ruolo Ricoperto

PRIN 1999: STRUTTURE GEOMETRICHE, COMBINATORIA E LORO APPLICAZIONI (24 mesi) Responsabile Unità

PRIN 2001: Algebre con identità polinomiali e metodi combinatori (24 mesi) Responsabile Unità

PRIN 2003: Identità polinomiali in algebre e metodi combinatori (24 mesi) ResponsabileUnità

PRIN 2005: Algebre con identità polinomiali e metodi combinatori 24 Responsabile Unità

PRIN 2007: Identità polinomiali e metodi combinatori (24 mesi) Responsabile Unità