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My name is Cesare Giulio Ardito. I am a mathematician, currently working as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Manchester.
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at City University of London, supported by an Early Career Fellowship awarded by the London Mathematical Society.
I obtained my PhD at the University of Manchester in July 2020. I am originally from Rome, Italy, which is also where I got my Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree at Sapienza University of Rome. In 2019, I was awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

I am involved in many other things, but those can be found on my personal website.

Click here to see my CV.
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  • Office Hours

    During term time:

    Wednesdays 10am-11am in person.
    Room 1.131, Alan Turing Building
    or on Zoom.
    If you find yourself in the waiting room, it is because I am talking to someone else before you.
    Priority will be given to in-person attendees.
    You can also contact me to book an appointment at different days and times, or outside term time.

  • Contact

    Room 1.131
    Department of Mathematics,
    Alan Turing Building
    School of Natural Sciences
    University of Manchester
    Oxford Road,
    Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    E-mail: cesaregiulio.ardito at manchester.ac.uk.

  • Recent updates

Research

My general research interests lie in finite group theory, in particular modular representation theory and global-local conjectures. I work on a variety of topics such as blocks of finite group algebras and their equivalences and invariants, fusion systems and Picard groups of blocks.
For more details, please visit my personal website at cesaregardito.eu

  • 5 Papers
  • 14 Citations
  • 4 Erdős number

Teaching - 2021-22 Semester 2

Classes are only recorded for 1G2, and attendance is always monitored. Lessons will only be delivered online in case of lecturer illness; otherwise, every in-class activity will be fully delivered in-person. Please be on time.

Blackboard  I am lecturing MATH19732 (1G2) with Peter Symonds.

Blackboard  I am leading supervision groups for MATH19812 (0B2).

Blackboard  I am leading tutorial groups for MATH10202 (Linear Algebra).
The deadline for homework submission through Blackboard is written on each exercise sheet, usually Monday at 10am. I will accept submission by email only in exceptional cases (e.g. Blackboard downtime). Please submit a single pdf file, and use a scanning app.

Blackboard  I am mentoring projects in MATH20062 (Mathematical Communication and Group Projects).

Blackboard  I am supervising projects in FOUN10022 (Foundation Year Project).

Remember that you can find your timetable, which includes locations, here:   Timetable (new)

There are still some bugs with the new version: you can still use the old version (which remains up-to-date): Timetable (old)

If you need to submit any kind of assignment, you can (and should) use a scanner or scanning app to scan your paper. Install it on your smartphone, open it and take pictures of the assignment There are several options, among which I suggest Adobe Scan and CamScanner (available on any major app store). You do not need to pay for the pro version: watermarks are fine. This will make your work look professional, ensure that we can read it and mark it appropriately... and it requires very minimal effort. Learn this skill now, and use it forever! If you are having trouble, watch this tutorial on how to use Adobe Scan.

Teaching - 2021-22 Semester 1 (now over)

Classes are only recorded for MATH42041, and attendance is always monitored. Please be on time.

Blackboard  I am lecturing MATH42041/MATH42061 - Noncommutative Algebra with Adam Jones.

Blackboard  I am leading supervision groups for MATH10101.
The deadline for homework submission through Blackboard is Friday at 1pm for the following week's class. I will only accept submission by email in exceptional cases (e.g. Blackboard downtime). Please use a scanning app.

Blackboard  I am leading tutorial groups for MATH20201.

Blackboard  I am leading tutorial groups for MATH20111.

Remember that you can find your timetable, which includes locations and Zoom links, here:   Timetable

If you need to submit any kind of assignment, you can (and should) use a scanner or scanning app to scan your paper. Install it on your smartphone, open it and take pictures of the assignment There are several options, among which I suggest Adobe Scan and CamScanner (available on any major app store). You do not need to pay for the pro version: watermarks are fine. This will make your work look professional, ensure that we can read it and mark it appropriately... and it requires very minimal effort. Learn this skill now, and use it forever! If you are having trouble, watch this tutorial on how to use Adobe Scan.

Academic Advising

You can find the presentation from the first group session here:  Academic Advisor

If you are one of my advisees, remember that you can (and should!) ask for a meeting or send me an email to ask for advice at any time. You do not have to wait for one of the mandatory meetings to raise an issue.

Stuff

A LaTeX template for PhD theses fully compliant with University of Manchester regulations (as of March 2022):  
Download

The following resources might be useful or interesting to maths students:

Approach Zero (a search engine that supports formulae)
GroupNames (a database of finite groups of order up to 500)
MAGMA online calculator

Detexify (search LaTeX commands)
LaTeX Table Generator
Tikzcd Editor
Mathurl (Pastebin, but it displays LaTeX)

Matrix multiplier
Wolfram Alpha

Online Encyclpedia of Integer Sequences
EqWorld (most equations we are able to solve)
Pi-base (a database of topological counterexamples)

Maths Genealogy Project