• Education
• Employment History
• Publications
• Grants, Honors and Awards
• Biographical Data

EDUCATION

•   University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
• Ph.D., May 1992
Dissertation title: The geometry of conic bundles arising in adjunction theory
Advisor: Professor Andrew J. Sommese.
• Master's in mathematics, January 1990.

•   Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy.
• Laurea in Matematica, 110/110 cum laude, November1987.
Thesis Title: On Reider's method and some applications
Advisor: Professor A. Lanteri.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

•  2003-present DePaul University
Associate Professor
•  2001-2003 DePaul University
Visiting Associate Professor
•  2000-2001 Indiana University Northwest
Associate Professor
•  1996-2000 Eastern Michigan University
Assistant Professor (Tenured in 2000)
•  1995-96 University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Lecturer
•  1994-95 Oklahoma State University
Visiting Assistant Professor -Special Year in Algebraic Geometry
•  1993-94 Universita' di L'Aquila, Italy
Researcher
•  1992-93 University of Notre Dame
Visiting Assistant Professor

PUBLICATIONS and OTHER WORKS

•  G. Besana - M. L. Fania

The dimension of the Hilbert scheme of special threefolds PDF
Submitted for publication, 2003 .

•  G. Besana - A. Biancofiore

Degree 11 Manifolds of Dimension Greater or equal to 3. PDF
Submitted for publication, 2003 .

•  G. Besana - M. Fries - V. Kilibarda
  Problem-Based Learning in Geometry Courses: The Impact On Pre-service Teachers. PDF
   Submitted for publication, 2003

•  G. Besana - S. DiRocco - A. Lanteri

Peculiar Loci of Ample and Spanned Line Bundles. PDF
To appear, Manuscripta Mathematica, 2003 .

•  G. Besana - S. Di Rocco

Polarized Surfaces of  Low Degree whose Adjoint Bundles are not Spanned. PDF
 Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan, VOl. 54, No 2, 329 - 340, (2002) .
 
•  A. Alzati -M. Bertolini - G. Besana

Two-dimensional Scrolls Contained in Hyperquadrics in P⁵.  PDF
Submitted for publication, 2003.
 
•  A. Alzati - G. Besana

On the k-Regularity of Some Projective Manifolds. PDF
Collect. Math. 49, 2-3, 149-171, (1998).
 
•  A. Alzati - G. Besana

The Projective Normality of Smooth Varieties of Degre Nine.
in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Lect. Notes in Pure and Applied Math 206, Marcel Dekker (1999).
 
•  A. Alzati - G. Besana

Koszul Cohomology and k-Normality of a Projective Variety.
Beitrage zur Algebra und Geometrie, Vol 41, N.1, 279-290.
 
 
•  G. Besana - S. Di Rocco

On the Projective Normality of Smooth Surfaces of Degree Nine. PDF
Geometriae Dedicata, 74 : 1-21, Jan (1999)
 
•  A.Alzati - M. Bertolini - G. Besana

Projective Normality of Varieties of Small Degree. PDF
Communications in Algebra, 25 (12), 3761-3771 (1997).
 
•  A. Alzati - M.Bertolini - G. Besana

Numerical Criteria for Very Ampleness of Divisors on Projectivized Bundles over an Elliptic Curve. PDF
Canadian Journal of Mathematics, vol. 48 - 6, (1996).
 
•  G. Besana

On Polarized Surfaces of Degree Three whose Adjoint Bundles are not Spanned.
Archiv der Matematik 65, 161-167 (1995) .
 
•  G. Besana et al.

Linear Systems on ProjectiveVarieties via Cohomology and Vector Bundles Techniques.
Lecture Notes from a course of L. Ein
INDAM Aracne, Rome1994.
 
•  M. Beltrametti - G. Besana - A.J. Sommese

On the Dimension of the Adjoint Linear System for Quadric Fibrations.
Proc. of the Yaroslavl' 1992 Conference, Aspects of Math, Vieweg 1993.
 
•  G. Besana

On the Geometry of Conic Bundles Arising in Adjunction Theory.
Mat. Nachr., 160 (1993) 223-251.
 
•  G. Besana -P.Olivotto

Criteri Numerici di Molta Ampiezza per Divisori su Alcune Superficie Algebriche.
Ann. Univ.Ferrara, Vol.XXXIV, 153-160,(1988)

GRANTS, HONORS and AWARDS

•  I.U.N

•  Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2001
•   Grant from the IU-Ameritech Fellows Program, 2001. (with V. Kilibarda)
  The implementation of dynamic geometry software in a Problem-Based Learning and Academic Service Learning environment.
• Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award, 2000

•  E.M.U.

•  Spring and Summer Research Award, 1998, 2000
•  Graduate School Research Support Fund Award, April 1999
•  Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching I, 1998
•  Provost's New Faculty Research Support Award, 1998
•  Spring and Summer Research Award, 1998
•  Graduate School Research Support Fund Award, November 1997 and March 1999.
•  Faculty Travel Grant, October 1997 and 1999.
•  Collegium for Advanced Studies Grant, February 1997.

•  Italian Ministry for the Universities and Scientific Research

 
• Awarded partial support for the research project Degree Eleven Manifolds of Dimension Greater or Equal to Three, and for a series of talks through the Universita di L' Aquila, Italy, June 1997.

 
•  University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.

 
• Nominated for the Freshman Honor Society Phi Eta Sigma Excellency Award, 1996

 
•  C.N.R.(Italian National ResearchCouncil)

 
• Awarded Post Ph.D.Completion Prize, 1993
• Renewed Scholarshipbased on achievements, 1990-91
• AwardedScholarship,1989-90.

 
•  University of Notre Dame

 
• Nominatedfor the O' Malley Teaching Award, 1993
• Awarded Graduate School Award for best Ph.D.dissertation in the Sciences, 1992.
• Awarded Tuition Scholarship,1988 through 1992.
• Awarded Mathematics Department fellowship, 1988-89.
• Awarded Smith grant, 1988-89
• Awarded Sady prize for best first year student,1989.

 
•  Mathematical Reviews

Reviewer since 1993

 

•  Zentralblatt Fur Mathematik

Reviewer since 1994

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

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