Anna Giordano Bruno

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Curriculum

The pdf of my CV in Italian is here.

Position

• 2016 December - Present: Associate Professor at University of Udine.
• 2011 May - 2016 November: Researcher at University of Udine.
• 2011: Post-doc student at University of Udine, with a grant by INdAM.
• 2009-2010: Post-doc student at University of Padova.
• 2005-2008: Ph.D. student at University of Udine.

Research projects

• Principal Investigator of SIR 2014 by MIUR, title Geometric, analytic and dynamical methods for the study of groups and group rings (GADYGR).
• Member of the project Progetti di Eccellenza 2011/12 della Fondazione CARIPARO, Università di Padova, coordinator Prof. Alberto Facchini.
• Member of PRIN 2008, title Anelli commutativi e loro moduli, gruppi abeliani e applicazioni, coordinator Prof. Luigi Salce.
• Member of PRIN 2005, title Commutative rings and their modules: multiplicative ideal theory, homological and topological methods, coordinator Prof. Luigi Salce.

Editorial activity

• Editor of the journal Applied General Topology.
• Guest editor of the volume of Topological Algebra and its Applications dedicated to the Conference Dynamics of (semi)group actions - Lodz (Poland), 9-12 July 2019.
• Guest editor of the volume of Topological Algebra and its Applications dedicated to the Conference Dynamical methods in Algebra, Geometry and Topology - Udine (Italy), 4-6 July 2018.
• Guest editor of the volume of Topology and its Applications dedicated to the Workshop on Topology and Topological Groups - Muizenberg, AIMS (South Africa), 6-7 December 2017.

Review activity

• Reviewer for Zentralblatt Math and for Mathematical Reviews of AMS.
• Referee for: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Topology and its Applications, Journal of Group Theory, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico dell'Università di Padova, Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, Applied General Topology, Filomat, Journal of Algebra and its Applications, Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics, Ricerche di Matematica.

Memberships

• INdAM - GNSAGA
• Unione Matematica Italiana
• European Mathematical Society
• European Women in Mathematics
• Advances in Group Theory and Applications

Organization of conferences

• Algebra, Topology, and Dynamical Systems (A conference in honor of Dikran Dikranjan on the occasion of his 70th birthday) - Udine (Italy), 28 - 30 July 2025. (General Chair)
• Algebra, Topology and Their Interactions 2023 - online conference, Udine (Italy), 24 - 26 July 2023 (General Chair).
• Algebra, Topology and Their Interactions 2022 - online conference, Udine (Italy), 12 - 13 September 2022 (General Chair).
• Algebra, Topology and Their Interactions 2021 - online conference, Udine (Italy), 7 - 8 September 2021 (General Chair).
• Dynamics of (semi)group actions - Lodz (Poland), 9 - 12 July 2019 (Member of the Scientific Committee).
• Dynamical methods in Algebra, Geometry and Topology - Udine (Italy), 4 - 6 July 2018 (General Chair).
• Una Giornata per Silvia - Udine (Italy), 28 September 2018 (Member of the Organizing Committee).
• Session Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics at the Joint Meeting of UMI-SIMAI-PTM - Wroclaw (Poland), 17 - 20 September 2018 (Session organizer).

Conferences and seminars

Invited communications

• Algebra, Topology and Their Interactions - online, 22 - 24 July 2024.
  Ideal convergence and characterized subgroups of the circle group.
• Groups in Galway 2024 - Galway (Ireland), 16 - 17 May 2024.
  A brief hystory and recent advances in the theory of characterized subgroups of the cricle.
• Iberoamerican and Pan Pacific International Conference on Topology and its Applications (Section Dynamical System) - Puebla (Mexico), 11 - 14 September 2023.
  The algebraic entropy of one-dimensional finitely lineal cellular automata
• Teoria dei gruppi a Paestum - Paestum (Italy), 6 - 7 July 2023.
  L'entropia algebrica degli automi cellulari lineari sullo spazio delle configurazioni finite.
• Groups and Algebras in Bicocca for Young algebraists (GABY 2022) - Milano (Italy), 13 - 17 June 2022.
  Growth of groups and of group endomorphisms.
• Dynamics of (Semi-)group Actions - Lodz (Poland), 22 - 25 June 2021.
  Receptive topological and metric entropy (slides).
• 31st Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications (Session Topological Methods in Algebra and Analysis) - University of Leicester (UK), 2 - 5 August 2016.
  Characterized subgroups of the circle group (slides).
• Recent Advances in Commutative Rings and Module Theory - Bressanone (Italy), 13 - 17 June 2016.
  Entropy in locally linearly compact vector spaces (slides).
• Incontro Nazionale di Algebra Moderna (INdAM) - Roma (Italy), 24 - 28 May 2010.
  Algebraic entropy for abelian groups (slides).

Given communications

• XXI Congresso dell'Unione Matematica Italiana - Pavia (Italy), 2 - 4 September 2019.
  La crescita degli endomorfismi gruppali (slides).
• Dynamics of (Semi-)group Actions - Lodz (Poland), 9 - 12 July 2019.
  The connection between the topological and the algebraic entropy.
• Groups and Topological Groups - Milano (Italy), 21 - 22 June 2019.
  The addition theorem for the algebraic entropy.
• Joint Meeting of UMI-SIMAI-PTM - Wroclaw (Poland), 17 - 20 September 2018.
  Algebraic entropy for amenable semigroup actions (slides).
• Entropies and soficity - Lyon (France), 15 - 19 January 2018.
  Algebraic entropy for amenable semigroup actions on abelian groups (slides).
• TopoSym 2016, Twelfth Symposium on General Topology and its Relations to Modern Analysis and Algebra - Prague (Cech Republic), 25 - 29 July 2016.
  Topological entropy on totally disconnected locally compact groups (slides).
• Groups and Topological Groups - Salerno (Italy), 20 - 21 November 2015.
  Growth and entropy of group endomorphisms (slides).
• XX Congresso U.M.I. - Siena (Italy), 7 - 12 September 2015.
  Come crescono gli endomorfismi gruppali?.
• Advances in Group Theory and Applications 2015 - Porto Cesareo (Italy), 16 - 19 June 2015.
  Additivity of topological entropy for locally profinite groups (slides).
• First Joint International Meeting RSME-SCM-SEMA-SIMAI-UMI - Bilbao (Spain), 30 June - 4 July 2014.
  Plenary talk in the special session "Algebraic Entropy and Topological Entropy": Bridge Theorems.
• 28th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications - Nipissing University, Northbay (Canada), 23 - 26 July 2013.
  Topological entropy for automorphisms of totally disconnected locally compact groups (slides).
• Groups and Topological Groups - Milano (Italy), 25 - 26 January 2013;
  Limit free computation of topological entropy.
• ItEs 2012 - Eighth Italian-Spanish Conference on General Topology and its Applications - Trieste (Italy), 3 - 7 September 2012.
  Entropy on totally disconnected locally compact groups (slides).
• 11st Prague Topological Symposium - Prague (Cech Republic), 8 - 12 August 2011.
  The Bridge Theorem (slides).
• Algebra meets Topology: Advances and Applications - Barcellona (Spain), 19 - 23 July 2010.
  Entropy functions (slides).
• Groups and Topological Groups - Essen (Germany), 29 - 30 January 2010.
  Algebraic entropy for non-torsion abelian groups (slides).
• Workshop on Commutative Rings and Their Modules - Bressanone (Italy), 17 - 20 September 2007.
  w-Divisible groups.
• ItEs 2007 - Sixth Italian-Spanish Conference General Topology and its Applications - Bressanone (Italy), 26 - 29 June 2007.
  Small minimal dense subgroups of compact abelian groups.
• 2006 International Conference on Topology and its Applications - Aegion (Greece), 23 - 26 June 2006.
  Semitopological homomorphisms.
• International Workshop on Topological Groups - Pamplona (Spain), 31 August - 2 September 2005.
  Totally dense pseudocompact subgroups.

Posters

• Ischia Group Theory 2012 - Ischia (Italy), 23 - 26 March 2012.
  Algebraic entropy and growth of group endomorphisms.
• 10th Prague Topological Symposium - Prague (Cech Republic), 13 - 19 August 2006.
  Dense minimal subgroups of compact abelian groups.

Invited seminars

• Online seminar on Probabilistic and Geometric Group Theory - 10 June 2022.
  Growth and entropy for group endomorphisms.
• Zoominar in Dynamical Systems - Porto, 4 February 2022.
  Topological and algebraic entropy for LCA groups.
• Topological Groups seminar (online) - University of Hawaii, 5 May 2020.
  Topological entropy and algebraic entropy on locally compact abelian groups (slides).
• Seminar at University of Firenze, 19 October 2012.
  Algebraic entropy.
• Seminario Padova - Verona MALGA (moduli, algebre, anelli), 10 May 2011.
  Entropy on abelian groups.
• Seminar at University of Bologna, 22 September 2010.
  Algebraic entropy.
• Seminario Padova - Verona MALGA (moduli, algebre, anelli), 10 December 2009.
  Algebraic entropy of generalized shifts.

Other conferences attended

• Dynamical methods in Algebra, Geometry and Topology - Udine (Italy), 4 - 6 July 2018.
• Una Giornata per Silvia - Udine (Italy), 28 September 2018.
• Scientific day dedicated to Luigi Salce - Padova (Italy), 30 September 2016.
• Algebraic Structures and Their Applications - Spineto (Italy), 16 - 20 June 2014.
• Locally compact groups beyond Lie Theory - Spa (Belgium), 1 - 5 April 2013.
• Una giornata per Silvia. Conferenza in memoria di Silvia Lucido - Padova (Italy), 26 - 27 March 2010.
• Workshop on Dynamical Systems - Udine (Italy), 27 - 28 September 2007.

Post-doc students

• Simone Virili: Dynamical invariants with algebraic applications, 1 December 2020 - 30 November 2021.
• Nicolò Zava: Algebraic, topological and dynamical aspects of coarse geometry, 1 May 2020 - 30 April 2021.
• Ilaria Castellano: Dynamical aspects of locally compact groups, 1 December 2018 - 31 May 2019.
• Daniele Toller: Dynamical methods for the study of topological groups, 1 February 2018 - 30 October 2018.
• Menachem Shlossberg: Analytic and dyncanmical methods for the study of topological groups, 1 May 2017 - 30 September 2018.
• Daniele Toller: Characterized subgroups and entropy functions of topological groups, 1 February 2017 - 31 January 2018.
• Ilaria Castellano: Entropy and scale for locally compact groups, 1 October 2015 - 30 September 2016.