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Eduardo Cattani, Professor
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Office LGRT 1235E
Phone (413) 545-2858
Fax (413) 545-1801
Email cattani <at> math.umass.edu
Mailing Address
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Lederle Graduate Research Tower
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9305
Office Hours: Monday: 4:15 to 5:15; Wednesday: 11:30 to 12:30; Thursday: 2:30 - 3:30
Courses  
Honors Calculus for Life and Social Sciences I
Math 127H (MWF 10:10 - 11:00 am, LGRT 123)
Theory of Manifolds I
Math 703 (MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm, LGRT 1322)
Education  
Ph.D.Washington University, 1972
L.M.Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1967
Research Interests: Algebraic geometry and applications
Professor Cattani's current research deals with the study of rational hypergeometric functions in several variables; the characterization of dual defect varieties; the study of mixed Lefschetz theorems.
Selected Publications
E. Cattani. Mixed Lefschetz Theorems and Hodge-Riemann Bilinear Relations. International Mathematics Research Notices, doi:10.1093/imrn/rnm025, 2008.
R. Curran and E.Cattani. Restriction of $A$-discriminants and Dual Defect Varieties. Journal of Symbolic Computation, 42, 115-135, 2007.
E. Cattani and A. Dickenstein. Counting Solutions to Binomial Complete Intersections. Journal of Complexity, 23, 82-107, 2007.
E. Cattani, A. Dickenstein, and B. Sturmfels. Rational hypergeometric functions. Compositio Math., 128, 217-240, 2001.
E. Cattani, A. Dickenstein, and B. Sturmfels. Residues and Resultants. J. Math. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, 5, 119-148, 1998.
E. Cattani, D. Cox and A. Dickenstein. Residues in Toric Varieties. Compositio Math., 108, 35-76, 1997.
E. Cattani, P. Deligne, and A. Kaplan. On the Locus of Hodge Classes. Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 8, 483-506, 1995.
E. Cattani, A. Kaplan, and W. Schmid. L2 and intersection cohomologies for a polarizable variation of Hodge structure. Inventiones Math., 87, 217-252, 1987.
E. Cattani, A. Kaplan, and W. Schmid. Degeneration of Hodge structures. Annals of Mathematics., 123, 457-535, 1986.
E. Cattani and A. Kaplan. Polarized mixed Hodge structures and the local monodromy of a variation of Hodge structure. Inventiones Math., 67, 101-115, 1982.



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