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Francesca Balestrieri

Assistant Professor
AUP

E-mail: fbalestrieri [at] aup [dot] edu

I'm interested in arithmetic geometry - in particular, in obstructions to arithmetic properties of rational points and 0-cycles of degree 1 on nice varieties over number fields. In September 2017, I completed my DPhil at University of Oxford under the supervision of Victor Flynn. From October 2017 to September 2019, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. From September 2019 to July 2020 I was a Marie Curie Fellow at IST Austria in Tim Browning's research group. I am now in Paris working as an Assistant Professor at AUP.

Mathematics aside, I'm very interested in philosophy, I enjoy playing the violin and composing music, and I spend quite a lot of my free time trying to improve my (at the moment quite poor) Modern Standard Arabic. Here's my cat.

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Publications and preprints

11) F. Balestrieri, J. Berg. Descent and étale-Brauer obstructions for 0-cycles.
Preprint. [PDF].
10) F. Balestrieri, J. Park, A. Shlapentokh. Hilbert’s Tenth Problem and the Inverse Galois Problem.
Preprint. [PDF]
9) F. Balestrieri, A. Johnson, R. Newton. Explicit uniform bounds for Brauer groups of singular K3 surfaces.
To appear in Annales de l'Institut Fourier. [PDF]
8) F. Balestrieri, N. Rome. Average Bateman-Horn for Kummer polynomials.
Preprint. [PDF]
7) F. Balestrieri. Some remarks on strong approximation and applications to homogeneous spaces of linear algebraic groups.
To appear in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. [PDF].
6) F. Balestrieri, R. Newton. Arithmetic of rational points and zero-cycles on products of Kummer varieties and K3 surfaces.
International Mathematics Research Notices, 2021 no. 6 (2021), 4255-4279. [Published Version] [PDF]
5) F. Balestrieri. Brauer-Manin obstruction and families of generalised Chatelet surfaces over number fields.
International Journal of Number Theory, 15 no. 2 (2019), 289-308. [Published Version] [PDF].
4) F. Balestrieri, J. Desjardins, A. Garbagnati, C. Maistret, C. Salgado, I. Vogt. Elliptic fibrations on covers of the elliptic modular surface of level 5.
WINE II: Contributions to Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, AWM Springer Series 11 (2018), 159-197. [Published Version] [PDF] .
3) F. Balestrieri. Iterating the algebraic étale-Brauer set.
Journal of Number Theory 182 (2018), 284-295. [Published Version] [PDF].
2) F. Balestrieri. Obstruction sets and extensions of groups.
Acta Arithmetica 173 (2016), 151-181. [Published Version] [PDF].
1) F. Balestrieri, J. Berg, M. Manes, J. Park, B. Viray. Insufficiency of the Brauer-Manin obstruction for rational points on Enriques surfaces.
Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop, AWM Springer Series 3 (2016), 1-32. [Published Version] [PDF] .

In July 2020 I obtained a Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Filosofiche at Ca' Foscari University of Venice under the supervision of Cecilia Rofena, with a thesis on Wittgenstein's notion of "following a rule" in Kripke's work.

I'm currently enrolled in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Professional Program. So far, I've passed XCS229 Machine Learning, XCS221 Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques, XCS234 Reinforcement Learning, and XCS224N Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning.

I've recently written a book with my father on the geopolitical tensions between USA and China for digital sovereignty. It's published by Luiss University Press. Subliminal message: buy it!

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