Scientific community activities, workshops, conferences, editorial work, and institutional collaborations.
ItaCa
I am a co-founder and member of the steering committee of ItaCa, the Italian community of category theorists.
ItaCa organises online seminars, annual workshops, online courses, and other scientific activities devoted to category theory and its applications.
CatAlg
I have been involved in the organisation of several editions of CatAlg, the Workshop in Categorical Algebra, an international meeting devoted to categorical algebra and its interactions with algebra, logic, and topology.
Among the editions I helped organise are:
- CatAlg2006, Milan website
- CatAlg2011, Gargnano del Garda website
- CatAlg2015, Gargnano del Garda website
- CatAlg2018, Gargnano del Garda website
- CatAlg2022, Gargnano del Garda website
- CatAlg2026, Edolo, website
Workshops and conferences
I have served on the organising or scientific committees of several international meetings, including:
- CT & CatAlg, workshop on the occasion of Enrico Vitale’s 60th birthday, Milan, 2024 website
- 5th ItaCa Workshop, Padova, 2024 website
- 4th ItaCa Workshop, Torino, 2023 website
- 108th Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic, Terrasini, 2023 website
- CT20→21 Category Theory Conference, Genova, 2021 website
- 105th Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic, Palermo, 2019 website
- 96th Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic, Palermo, 2014 website
- In memory of Aurelio Carboni, Milan, 2013 website
World Logic Day
I organised two editions of World Logic Day in Palermo:
Editorial and referee activity
I am an editor of the journal Theory and Applications of Categories.
I have acted as referee for several journals and institutions, including:
- Journal of Algebra and its Applications;
- Theory and Applications of Categories;
- Cahiers de Topologie et Géométrie Différentielle Catégoriques;
- Applied Categorical Structures;
- Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures;
- F.R.S.-F.N.R.S., Belgium.
Scientific affiliations
I am a member of GNSAGA, the National Research Group in Algebraic Structures, Combinatorial Geometry and their Applications of INdAM.
Since December 2023 I have been a corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale Scienze Lettere e Arti of Palermo.