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   My name is Damiano Testa and I am a visiting assistant professor at the Mathematics Department of Cornell University. I obtained my PhD from MIT, where my thesis advisor was Johan de Jong. As an undergraduate, I went to Università "La Sapienza" in Rome, Italy, and my advisor was Corrado de Concini.

My field of interest is algebraic geometry.

Teaching - Spring 2006

• Math191 Calculus For Engineers

• Math767 Algebraic Geometry: Algebraic Surfaces

Research

• Curriculum Vitæ

• The Severi problem for rational curves on del Pezzo surfaces, Ph.D Thesis, April 25, 2005. (Here is a singlespaced version)

• A computational proof that the ideal of relations generated by the conic bundles for the Cox ring of a general del Pezzo surface of degree four over the complex numbers is radical.

• A note giving a numerical characterization of the classes of (very) free rational curves on a del Pezzo surface.

• A note proving that the ideal of relations of the Cox ring of a del Pezzo surface X is generated by homogeneous polinomials of nef Pic(X)-degree.

• Snakes in a sudoku

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