Enric Ventura

Curriculum (updated 1/2010)

1. Personal data:
   • Name and surname: Enric Ventura Capell.
   • Date of birth: 11/04/1965.
   • Actual posicion: Associate Professor,
                                 Department of Applied Mathematics III,
                                 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
     
2. Mathematical education:
   • Degree in Mathematics by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, 6/1988.
   • Master in Mathematics by UAB, 6/1990.
   • PhD in Matematics by UAB, 7/1995. Advisor: Warren Dicks.
     
3. Academic positions:
   • Teaching assistant in the Mathematics Department of UAB, since 10/1988 untill 3/1991.
   • TEU in the Department of Applied Mathematics III of UPC, since 3/1991 until 3/1998.

   • Associate Professor (CEU) in the Department of Applied Mathematics III of UPC, since 3/1999 until 3/2009.

   • Associate Professor (TU)  in the Department of Applied Mathematics III of UPC, since 3/2009 until now.
4. Administrative positions:
   • Editor of the newletter SCM/Notícies of the Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques since 09/2004 untill now. 
   • Member of the executive committee and the publications committee of the  Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques since 09/2004 untill now.
   • Delegate of the Head of Department of Applied Mathematics III, for the Bages section, from 6/2002 untill 01/2004.
5. Participation in research projects:
   • Participation in the research project number MTM2008-01550 of the MCI (Spanish Government) for the period 1/2009 - 12/20011. 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".
6. Edition of mathematical journals:
   • Editor of the journal Groups, Complexity, Cryptology (GCC) since November 2007 untill now.
7. Organization of acts:
   • Organizer of the worksop "Geometric, Asymptotic, Combinatorial Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA), to be 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).
   • Member of the scientific commitee of the conference Geometry, Topology and Computation in Groups to be held at Les Diablerets (Switzerland) from March 7th to 12th, 2010.
   • Member of the scientific committee of the conference New algebraic-logic methods in solutions for systems of equations in algebraic structures to be held at Omsk University (Russia) from August 16th to 22nd, 2009.  
   • Co-organizer of the Fourth Barcelona Weekend in Group Theory (Thematic Day at CRM), held on April 24th and 25th, 2009.
   • Member of the organizing committee of the conference Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA) to be held at the Algebraic Cryptography Center of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ (USA) from March 9th to 12th, 2009.
   • Co-organizer of the Third Barcelona Weekend in Group Theory, held on April 26th, 2008.
   • Member of the organizing committee of the conference Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory with Applications (CGGTA) held at the University of Dortmund (Germany) from August 27th to 31st, 2007.  
   • Coordinator of the Advanced Course on Group-Based Cryptography, that was held at Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) from May 28th to June 2nd, 2007.
   • Co-organizer of the Second Barcelona Weekend in Group Theory, held on May 4th and 5th, 2007.
   • 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.
   • Coordinator of the organizing committee of the conference Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA) that was held in Manresa from August 31st to September 4th, 2006.
   • Co-organizer of the First Barcelona Weekend in Group Theory, held on May 12th and 13th, 2006.
   • Coordinator of the Barcelona Conference on Geometric Group Theory, that was held at the CRM from June 28 to July 2, 2005. 
   • Coordinator of the Advanced Course on the Geometry of the Word Problem for Finitely Generated Groups, that was held at the CRM from July 5 to July 15, 2005.
   • Co-organizer of the Special Research Program 04/05 of the CRM about Geometric Group Theory.
   • Co-organizer of the special session "Geometric Methods in Group Theory" in the first joint AMS-RSME meeting that was held in Sevilla (Spain), June 18 to 21, 2003.  
8. International stays:
   • Invited to participate at the research programme Geometric Group Theory of the Mathematical Science Research Institute (Berkeley, California) in December 2007.
   • Invited as a research visitor to CRM from 01/09/2007 till  30/11/2007.
   • Invited to participate at the Workshop Generic Case Complexity of the American Institute of Mathematics (Palo Alto, California) in August 2007.
   • CRM visitor from 09/05/2006 to 10/31/2006.
   • 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.
   • CRM visitor from 01/09/2004 to 31/08/2005.
   • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Place: Lincoln - Nebraska (USA). Period: 9/1/2004 - 15/5/2004. 
   • Mathematics Department, City College of New York (CUNY). Place: New York City (USA). Period: 9/3/2000 - 9/28/2001. 
   • 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.
9. Direction of teaching/research projects:
   • Direction of the masters project "Extensions de l'algorisme clàssic de Whitehead" (PDF) at the Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística of the UPC. Student: Borja de Balle Pigem.
   • Co-direction (with J.M. Fuertes) of the project "An algebraic method for constructing cycles in deBruijn graphs with an application to angular codification" (PDF) at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria de Telecomunicació de Barcelona (UPC). Student: Borja de Balle Pigem.
10. Docent publications:
    • M. Alsina, C. Busqué, E. Ventura, "500 Problemes d'Àlgebra" (157 pages), published in 11/1990.
    • J.M. Brunat, E. Ventura, Informació i Codis published 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.
11. Research publications:

    Publications

12. Participation in juries:
    • 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.
    • Member of a CEU job search committee, Univerity of Málaga, 11/2002.
    • Member of a CEU job search committee, University Complutense of Madrid, 9/2002.
    • Member of a CEU job search committee, University of Alicante, 2/2001.
    • Member of a TEU job search committee, University of Alicante, 2/2001.
13. Main talks given:
    • "Whitehead minimization in polynomial time", at the Algebra Seminar of the Technion, Haifa (Israel), 11/2009. PDF
    • "Algebraic extensions of free groups with two applications", at the Math. Colloquium of Bar-Ilan University (Israel), 11/2009. PDF
    • "Whitehead minimization and computation of algebraic closures in polynomial time", at the meeting New algebra-logical methods in solutions for systems of equations in algebraic structures, Omsk (Rusia), 8/09. PDF
    • "Algebraic extensions and computations of closures in free groups", at the Oberseminar Computation Algebra and Number Theory, Düsseldorf (Alemanya), 5/09. PDF
    • "Characterizing the solvability of the conjugacy problem in free-by-free and [free abelian]-by-free groups", at 1047 AMS meeting, Urbana, Illinois (USA), 3/09. PDF
    • "Twisted conjugacy for free groups, and the conjugacy problem for some extensions of groups" (4 hours), at McGill University (Canada), 3/09.

    • "Automata and algebraic extensions of free groups", at the "Sémianire Groupes, Géométrie et Logique" of the Université Claude Bernard, Lyon (France), 12/08. PDF

    • "The conjugacy problem for extensions of groups", at the Algebra and Geometry Seminar of the Bristol University (UK), 6/08. PDF
    • "The first part of Whitehead's algorithmm made polynomial", at CIRM, Luminy (France), 2/07. PDF
    • "The conjugacy problem for free-by-free groups and orbit decidability", at the conference "International Congress of Mathematicians ICM06", Madrid (Spain), 8/06.

    Complete list

14. Other merits:
    • Referee for several mathematical journals.
    • Reviewer for the ANEP (Spanish Government).
    • Reviewer for the AGAUR (Catalan Government)
    • Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews since 10/1994 until now.
    • Member of the Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques since 12/1988 until now.
    • Member of the European Mathematical Society since 11/1995 until now.

© Enric Ventura Capell, 1999

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