Participation in the research project number PID2021-126851NB-100 of the MCI
(Spanish Government) for the period 9/2022 - 9/2026. Title: "Geometric Methods in Group Theory".
Main researcher: E.
Ventura.
Participation in the research project number MTM2017-82740-P of the MCI
(Spanish Government) for the period 1/2018 - 9/2022. Title: "Geometric Methods in Group Theory".
Main researcher: E.
Ventura.
Participation in the research project number MDM-2014-0445 of the
MEC (Spanish Government) for the period 1/2015 - 12/2018, developped by
the Barcelona Graduate School of
Mathematics (BGSMath).
Research stay project number PRX16/00313 of the Spanish Government for the
period 9/2016 - 1/2017. Working place:
Southampton University
(England).
Participation in the research project number MTM2014-54896-P of the MEC
(Spanish Government) for the period 1/2015 - 12/2017. Title: "Geometric Methods in Group Theory".
Main researcher: E.
Ventura.
Participation in the research project number MTM2011-25955 of the MEC
(Spanish Government) for the period 1/2012 - 12/2014. Title: "Geometric Methods in Group Theory".
Main researcher: E.
Ventura.
Research stay project number PR2010-0321 of the Spanish Government for the
period 8/2010 - 12/2010. Working place:
CRM-Montréal (Canada).
Participation in the research project number
MTM2008-01550 of the MCI (Spanish Government) for the period
1/2009 - 12/2011. Title: "Geometric Methods in Group Theory".
Main researcher: E.
Ventura.
Participation in the research project number MTM2006-13544-C02 of the
MEC
(Spanish Government) for the period
10/2006 - 9/2008. Title: "Geometry of Dehn problems for finitely
presented groups".
Main researcher: E. Ventura.
Participation in the research project HF2006-0239 (Acción Integrada
Hispano-Francesa) of the MEC for the period 1/2007 - 12/2008. Title: "Automata
and free groups". Main researcher:
E. Ventura.
Participation in the research projects numbers BFM2003-06613,
BFM2000-0354, PB96-1152, PB93-0900 and PB90-0719 of the Spanish Government
for the periods 1/2004 - 12/2006, 12/2000 - 12/2003, 11/1997 - 12/2000, 7/1994 - 7/1997 and 8/1991 - 8/1994,
respectively. Title: "Group actions in low dimensional CW-complexes".
Main researcher: W. Dicks.
Participation in the research project ACI-013 (Acció Integrada) of the Generalitat de
Catalunya for the period 1/2003 - 12/2003. Title: "The lattice of subgroups of the
free group". Main researcher:
E. Ventura. Renewed for the
period 1/2004 - 12/2004.
Participation in the research project HF2001-0054 (Acción Integrada Hispano-Francesa)
of the DGI for the period 1/2002 - 12/2003. Title: "Automata and the geometry of
Out(F_n)". Main researcher:
J. Burillo.
Participation in the research project ACI-041 (Acció Integrada) of the Generalitat de
Catalunya for the period 1/2002 - 12/2002. Title: "Amenability of Thompson's group".
Main researcher:
J. Burillo.
Renewed for the periods 1/2003 - 12/2003 and 1/2004 - 12/2004.
Postdoctoral stay project number 2001BEAI400176 of the Generalitat de Catalunya for the
period 1/2001 - 11/2001. Title: "Morphisms of free groups and their fixed
points".
Co-organizer of the thematic section on Geometric and Combinatorial
Group Theory at the Spanish-Catalan-Polish Meeting,
held Setember 4th to 8th, 2023 in
Lódz, Poland.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the conference
Geometric and Asymptotic
Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA-10) held at Stevens Institute
of Technology (USA)
from June 12th to 18th, 2016.
Organizer of the worksop "Geometric,
Asymptotic, Combinatorial Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA-4), held in Montreal (Canada) from August 15th to 19th, 2010 as an activity
of the thematic semester "Geometric, Combinatorial and Computational
Group Theory" of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM-Canada).
Co-organizer of the CRM research
thematic activity
Mathematics and Digital Content Security (funded by
MATHEMATICA/CONSOLIDER
INGENIO 2010)
running from September 2006 to October 2007.
Co-organizer of the special session "Geometric
Methods in Group Theory" in the first joint
AMS-RSME meeting held in Sevilla (Spain), June 18 to
21, 2003.
Laboratoire bordelais de recherche en informatique (LaBRI),
Université Bordeaux I. Place:
Bordeaux, France. Period: 27/3/2006 - 11/04/2006 and 31/5/2006 - 10/6/2006.
Universita Degli Studi di Perugia (summer course organized by the
Scuola Matematica Interuniversitaria).
Place: Perugia (Italy). Period: 7/24/1988 - 8/27/1988.
Universita Degli Studi di Perugia (summer course organized by the
Scuola Matematica Interuniversitaria).
Place: Perugia (Italy). Period: 7/31/1989 - 9/2/1989.
Direction of teaching/research projects:
Co-direction of the master project "The isomorphism problem for certain
families of semidirect products"
at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the
UPC. Student:
Miguel Cidrás. Date:
ongoing.
Direction of the master project "The word and conjugacy problem for
certain subgroups of right-angles Artin groups"
at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the
UPC. Student:
Javier Mejías. Date:
ongoing.
Direction of the degree project "Grau de commutativitat de grups
finitament generats" (PDF)
at the Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the
UPC. Student: Pere Llorenç. Date: July 11th, 2023.
Direction of the master project "The gap between an
automorphism and its inverse"
(PDF) at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the
UPC. Student: Àlex Miranda Pascual. Date:
July 6th, 2021.
Direction of the master project "Algebraic extensions in free
groups and Stallings graphs"
(PDF) at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the
UPC. Student: Sebastià Mijares Verdú. Date:
July 7th, 2020.
Direction of the degree project "Malnormal closure
computation"
(PDF) at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the
UPC. Student: Cesc Folch Aldehuelo. Date:
May 21st, 2020.
Direction of the degree project "Irresolubilitat d'un problema
d'àlgebra lineal"
(PDF) at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the
UPC. Student: Oriol Valls Dellavalle. Date:
July 10th, 2020.
PhD thesis direction at the UPC PhD programme:
"Algebraic and algorithmic aspects of Z^m x F_n: fixed subgroups and
quantification of inertia" (PDF). Student: Mallika Roy (felowship from
BGSMath). Defense date: february 12th,
2020. Grade: "Excel·lent cum laude".
Co-direction of the High School project:
"Les matemàtiques del cub de Rubik: i l'optimització d'un mètode per a la
seva resolució a cegues" (PDF).
Student: Berta García. Defense date:
desember 2018.
PhD thesis direccion at the UPC PhD programme:
"Extensions of free groups: algebraic, geometric, and algorithmic aspects"
(PDF)Student: Jordi Delgado. Defense date: September 15th, 2017. Grade: "excel·lent cum
laude".
Direction of the master project "An introduction to Homotopy Type
Theory"
(PDF) at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the UPC. Student: Tomàs Martínez. Date:
June 26, 2016.
Direction of the degree project "A calculator for the lattice of
subgroups of a free group" (PDF) at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the UPC. Student: Ángel García. Date:
July 17, 2015.
Direction of the degree project "Unsolvable problems in group theory" (PDF) at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the UPC. Student: Miquel Porcar. Date:
January 31, 2014.
Direction of the degree project "Algorithmic problems about
subgroups of free groups" (PDF) at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the UPC. Student: Guillermo Santamaria. Date:
September 2013.
Direction of the degree project "Isomorphism betwen PC-products" (PDF) at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the UPC. Student: Albert Garreta
Fontelles. Date: July 2012.
Direction of the master project "Extensions de l'algorisme
clàssic de Whitehead" (PDF) at the
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
of the
UPC. Student: Borja de Balle Pigem. Date:
January 2009.
J.M. Brunat, E. Ventura, Informació
i Codispublished as number 114 of the collection "Politext",
Edicions UPC, september 2001, (393 pages). ISBN:
84-8301-528-5. Project awarded at the seventh edition of the "Ajuts a l'elaboració
de material docent", UPC, 1999.
M. Alsina, C. Busqué, E. Ventura, "500 Problemes d'Àlgebra" (157
pages), published in 11/1990.
"External examiner"
of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctorat Program in Mathematics
of the University of the Basc
Country, 12/23 (Mateo Pintonello).
Member of a degree committee of the Facultat de Matemàtiques i
Estadística (FME) from
UPC,
7/2023 (Laura Arribas, Joana Pi, Olga Martínes, Josep Fontana).
Member of a master's degree committee
corresponding to the Master's Program in Mathematics at the UPC,
7/2021 (I. Chércoles, À. Miranda, R. Bergadà).
Secretary of a master's degree committee
corresponding to the Master's Program in Mathematics at the UPC,
6/2020 (S. Mijares, P. Mir).
Secretary of a master's degree committee
corresponding to the Master's Program in Mathematics at the UPC,
10/2019 (D. Acedo, A. Khandpur).
Member of a degree committee of the Facultat de Matemàtiques i
Estadística (FME) from
UPC, 9/2018 (Nora Wieczorek, Raül Pérez,
Jordi Jofre i David Doste).
Secretary member of a jury for PhD research projects at the Facultat
de Matemàtiques i Estadística (FME) de la
UPC, 6/2018 (Maximilian Wötzel).
Secretary member of a jury for assigning parttime jobs at UPC, 6/16
and 3/17.
"External examiner" of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral
Program in Mathematics of the University of Southampton, 6/16 (Dionysios Syrigos).
President of a degree committee of the Facultat de Matemàtiques i
Estadística (FME) from
UPC, 5/2016 (Adrià Balcàzar, Glòria
Castellví, Francesc Gispert, i Oriol Ventura)
President of a degree committee of the Escola Politècnica Superior
d'Enginyeria de Manresa (EPSEM)
from UPC, 9/2015 (M. Llovet)
Deputy member of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of
the UV, 9/2015 (Orieta Liriano).
Deputy member of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of
the UAB, 9/2014 (Simone Virili).
Deputy member of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of
the UAB, 9/2013 (Joan Bosa).
Member of a jury for a PhD proposal corresponding to the Doctoral
Program in Mathematics at the UPC, 7/2013 (E. López).
Secretary of a degree committee of the Facultat de Matemàtiques i
Estadística from UPC, 7/2012 (A. Garreta).
Member of a PhD committee corresponding to the Université Marseille,
6/2012 (F. Ibrahim).
Secretary of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of
the UAB, 11/2011 (E. Rodríguez).
Deputy member of a of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of
the Euskal Herriko
Unibertsitatea, 10/2011 (A. Zugadi).
Secretary of a master's degree committee corresponding to the Master's
Program in Mathematics at the UPC, 7/2011 (J. Delgado).
President of a master's degree committee corresponding to the Master's
Program in Mathematics at the UPC, 3/2011 (E. López).
Deputy member of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of
the UAB, 7/2010 (Y. Antolín).
President of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of
the UAB, 6/2009 (L. Bacardit).
President of a master's degree committee corresponding to the Master's
Program in Mathematics at the UPC, 7/2009 (A. Fossas).
Secretary of a master's degree committee corresponding to the Master's
Program in Mathematics at the UPC, 3/2009 (B. Balle).
Member of a sub-PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in
Mathematics of the UAB, 10/2006 (L. Bacardit).
Member of a sub-PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in
Mathematics of the UAB, 9/2006 (Y. Antolin).
Member of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in
Mathematics of the UAB, 6/2006 (R. Martí).
Member of the jury for the Galois prize of the
SCM in 2006.
Member of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Computer
Science of the UPV, 6/2003 (A. Cano).
Member of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of
the UAB, 6/2003 (G. Bastardas).
Member of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of
the UPC, 4/2000 (J.
Gimbert).
Deputy member of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of
the UAB, 4/1998 (M.
Chas).
Deputy member of a PhD committee corresponding to the Doctoral Program in Mathematics of
the UPC, 5/1997. (j.A. Rodríguez)
"Endomorphisms of direct products of free and surface groups, and
their fixed points", at the
Algebra Seminar, Universidade de Brasilia (Brasil), 10/2020.
PDF
"The conjugacy problem and other algorithmically related problems",
plenary tallk at the first "Edimburg Mathematical Society - Societat
Catalana de Matemàtiques joint meeting", Barcelona (Catalunya), 5/2015.
PDF
Membre of the Board of the Iberian Network on Group Theory (IBG).
Participation in the ICE-UPC project "Material didàctic amb
l'equivalència entre el llenguatge verbal i simbòlic per a l'aprenentatge
en anglès de continguts tècnics". Coordinator: M. Alsina.
