Umberto Zannier

EDUCATION and POSITIONS

Born, May 25, 1957
- 1976/80 - Student, University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
- 1980/83 - Perfezionando, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (and Teaching Assistant, Un. Illinois).
- Then Ricercatore (Padova 1983/1987), Associate Professor of Algebra (Salerno 1987/1991),
- Full Professor of Geometry (Venice 1991/2003).
- Since 2004: Full Professor of Geometry (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Main research interests: Number Theory, especially DiophantineGeometryand related topics

MEMBERSHIPS - HONORS

2004 - Elected member (non-resident) of the Academy Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti.
2005 - Prize: Medal for Mathematics of the Italian National Academy of Sciences.
2006 - Elected member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
2011 - Recipient of Advanced Grant “Diophantine Problems” (5 years), by the European Research Council.
2012 - Elected member of “Academia Europaea”.

Other

2011: Prize “Premio S. Marco” (Citta di Pordenone) and Member of the Accademia S. Marco(Pordenone).
2011: Honorary member of the ‘Societ`a indologica Pio Tessitori’ (Udine), for promoting scientific cooperation with Indian mathematics.
- The work of Zannier has been the object of two “Seminaire Bourbaki” by Y. Bilu (on the Subspace Theorem) and by A. Chambert-Loir (on Unlikely Intersections).

SOME INVITED LECTURES 

- Several lectures at New York Number Theory Seminar (Columbia-NYU-CUNY).
- Colloquium, Univ. Tel Aviv, 2002.
- Plenary lectures at Journèes Arithmetiques" (Graz 2003 and Grenoble 2013), 
- Invited lecture, IV European Congress of Mathematics" (Stockholm, 2004),
- Plenary lecture at CNTA XII (Lethbridge 2012), 
- Plenary lectures at symposia in honor of   L. Szpiro (Paris-Orsay 2001 and New York 2011), W.M. Schmidt (Vienna 2004), G. Wuestholz (ETH Zuerich 2011), C. De Concini (Cortona 2012-Venezia 2019), Joe Silverman (Brown Univ. 2015), C. Deninger (2018), D. Goldfeld (2018).
- Plenary lecture at Number Theory Days, ETH, 2008.
- Nachdiploma Course ETH (then shifted to a shorter course per personal reasons), 2009
- Plenary lecture at Giornata Indam 2009, 
-  `Hermann Weil Lectures',  Institute for Advanced Study,  Princeton, May 2010.
- Multiple lectures at Midrasha Math. School, Israel Inst. for Adv. St., Jerusalem 2013.
- Plenary lecture at joint meeting of Austrian and German Math. Societies, Innsbruch, 2013.
- Invited lecture at ICM Seoul 2014.
- Lecture at Oxford Clay meeting on Functional Transcendence, 2014.

- Ritt Lectures, Columbia University, 2016.

- Lectures at Alpbach Summer School (with P. Scholze and S. Zhang).

- Distinguished Lecture Series at Fields Institute (Toronto, 2017).

- Minerva Lecture Series, Princeton University, 2017.

- PIMS Distinguished Colloquium Lecture (Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, 2018).

- Colloquium Lecture, Univ., Rochester and Univ, Princeton, 2019.

- Invitation as plenary lecturer at 8-th European Congress of Mathematics, 2020.

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Visited Institute for Advanced Study Princeton (Member in 2000 and 2019), Israel Institute for Advanced Studies Jerusalem, Institut Henri Poincarè Paris, IHES Paris, ETH  Zuerich,  MSRI Berkeley, Schroedinger Institut ,  Vienna, and several universities.

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- Since  2004:  non resident  Member of Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. 
- Medal for Mathematics  2005 from the italian National Academy of Sciences.
- Since  2006 Corr. Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
- Recipient of an Advanced Grant, by the Europ. Research Council, 2011.
- Since 2012 Member of Academia Europaea.

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ORGANIZATION OF EVENTS
- 1989 Amalfi Symposium in Analytic Number Theory (with E. Bombieri, A. Perelli, S.Salerno)- Co-editor of Proceedings.
- 1995: Number Theory Meeting, Venezia.
- 2000: CIME Summer School in Diophantine Approximation (with F. Amoroso), Cetraro - Italy, co-editor of Springer Proceedings.
- 2004: Diophantine Geometry, trimester at Centro De Giorgi (Pisa), Co-Editor of Proceedings.
- 2005/2014: Colloquia De Giorgi (series of lectures at Scuola Normale), Editor of the corresponding publication (by Edizioni della Normale)
- 2008: Meeting of cooperation Italy-India (with M. Waldshmidt, R. Balasubramanian), Pisa.
- 2011: AIM meeting on Unlikely Intersections (with J. Pila and Am. Inst. of Math., Pisa)
- 2012: ERC meeting in Diophantine Geometry (bimester in Pisa).
- 2014: II ERC meeting in Diophantine Geometry (two weeks, Cetraro, Italy)
- 2015: III ERC meeting in Diophantine Geometry (27--29 May, Roma, Accademia dei Lincei)

- 2019: Co-organizer of JNT Biennial (with D. Goldfeld, D. Prasad, E. Ullmo, S. Zhang).

- 2005/2018: Co-organizer of workshops in Dioph. Approximation at CIRM Luminy and Math. FI. Oberwolfach.

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EDITORIAL BOARDS
Acta Arithmetica,
 Annali Sci. Scuola Normale Superiore (Director since 2012), 
Boll. U.M.I.,
 International Math. Res. Notices, 
International J. of Number Theory (Managing Editor- resigned 2018),
Journal of Number Theory (since 2018).
Journal European Math. Soc., 
Monatshefte fuer Math., 
Rend. Accademia Lincei, 
Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova. 

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BOOKS
- Some Applications of Diophantine Approximation to Diophantine Equation (Udine Forum, 2002)
- Lecture Notes on Diophantine Analysys (Edizioni della Normale, 2005, reprinted 2014)
- Some problems of Unlikely Intersections in Arithmetic and Geometry, Annals of Math. Studies, n. 181, Princeton Univ. Press, 2012.

- Lecture Notes on the Elementary Theory of Valuations (with R. Scognamillo, Ed. della Normale).
- Applications of Dioph. Approximation to Integral Points and Transcendence (with P. Corvaja), Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018.

Contributed to math. non-technical articles for Le Matematiche" (Einaudi, 2008), and "Terzo Millennio" (Treccani).

An updated list of publications appears in MathSciNet