PhD students (SISSA)

• Luca Morstabilini
• Nicolò Bignami
• Andrea Grossutti
• Valentina Bais

• Solomiya Mizyuk. PhD thesis: Virtual invariants of Quot schemes of points on threefolds. Defended on 14th May 2026.
• Michele Graffeo. PhD thesis: Zero-dimensional sheaves, group actions and blowups. Defended on 25th November 2022.

Tips from experienced mathematicians

Here are some useful tips for mathematical writing (to read before your first paper(s)! I wish I had known!):

• Practical suggestions (by Prof. Bjorn Poonen),
• Tips for authors (by Prof. James Milne).
  

Ever wonder why you should go to talks despite the unpleasant overall feeling of "not understanding enough"? Here is an enlightening exercise proposed by Prof. Ravi Vakil to get three things out of a maths talk. Those "things" will come back to you, sooner or later, and they will talk to you.