Francesco Pappalardi

Research Interests

Analytic Number Theory, Primitive roots, Elliptic Curves, Galois Representations, Arithmetical Functions

Education

• Laurea: Università di Roma La Sapienza (1988 - Mathematics)
• Ph.D.: McGill University, Montréal (1993)
• Post - doc:
  • CICMA, Concordia University (1993)
  • Università Roma Tre (1994)
  • Human Capital and Mobility Fellow, Université de Paris Sud (1994 - 1995)

Academic Positions

• 1995–2001 – Researcher in Algebra, Università Roma Tre
• 2001–2006 – Associate Professor, Università Roma Tre
• 2006–2025 – Full Professor, Università Roma Tre (Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica)
• 2005 – Full Professor, Università Roma Tre (Dipartimento di Architettura)

Other activities

• Member of the Committee for Developing Countries of the European Mathematical Society 2016 - (vice Chair 1/1/2018 - 1/12/2022)
• Kurdistan Algebra Projects (KAP) coordinator 2026 -
• Nepal Algebra Projects (NAP) coordinator 2016 - 2021
• Member of the Roman Number Theory Association 2015 -
• ICTP consultant 2015 - 2021
• European Mathematical Society 2016 -
• Individual member of the International Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics CIMPA 2014 -
• Centro di Ateneo per la Formazione degli Insegnanti delle Scuole coordinator of the Applied Mathematics Class (A048) (2014 - 2016)
• CICMA, Concordia University, Montréal 08 - 12/1993
• Teaching McGill University – Montréal (89 - 90) Queen's University – Kingston (1 - 8/88)

Fellowships and prizes:

• 1993 – Dean's Honor List PhD, McGill University
• 1992 – Award ISM (Institut des Sciences Mathématiques), Montréal
• 1991 – Fellowship CNR for Italians abroad
• 1990 – Award WUSC (World University service of Canada)
• 1989 – Fellowship McGill Steward fellowships for foreign students
• 1989 – Fellowship Queen's University Baumann fellowship
• 1988 – Fellowship CNR, for mathematics master students.

Editorial Service

Associate Editor

• The Ramanujan Journal (2024 - )
• Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences. ERBIL Iraq (2021 - )
• Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics (2020 - 2023)
• Baghdad Science Journal (2019 - 2024)
• Tbilisi Mathematical Journal (2019 - 2025)
• Journal of Nepal Mathematical Society (2017 - )

Guest Editor

• Proceedings of the Conference SCHOLAR in honour of Ram Murty Contemporary Mathematics AMS | CRM, 2015 (2014 - 15)
• A special issue of Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society dedicated to Alf van der Poorten Volume 92 - with I. Shparlinski and J. Shallit (2012)
• Proceedings of the"Incontro Italiano Teoria dei Numeri" with. A. Perelli and C. Viola. Rend. Sem. Mat. Pol. Univ. Torino 53 No. 3 - 4 (1995)
• Atti della conferenza Stato della Ricerca e Sviluppi Futuri with F. Dramis, A. Gambacorta, R. Mignani, A. Trentalance. Aracne Editrice Roma 2003. (2003)

Grants:

• 2024 - Team Member PRIN 2022HPSNCR: Semiabelian varieties, Galois representations and related Diophantine problems
• 2019 - 2023 Team Member PRIN 2017 Geometric, algebraic and analytic methods in arithmetic
• 2016 - 2018 Team Member PRIN 2015 Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry
• 2012 - 2014 Team Member PRIN 2010 - 2011 (48.000€) Geometria algebrica aritmetica e teoria dei numeri
• 2010 - 2011 Team Member PRIN 2008 (€19.500) Problemi diofantei e analitici in Teoria dei Numeri
• 2007 - 2008 Team Member PRIN 2006 (€18.500) Problemi diofantei e analitici in Teoria dei Numeri
• 2005 - 2007 Local Team Leader INTAS 03 - 51 - 5070 Analytical and Combinatorial Methods in Number Theory and Geometry
• 2005 - 2006 Team Member PRIN 2004 (€20.000) Funzioni zeta e L e problemi diofantei in teoria dei numeri
• 2003 - 2004 Local Team Leader Italy - México, Scientific and Technological Cooperation Project I gruppi Kleiniani in dimensione alta e la teoria analitica delle frazioni egiziane
• 2003 - 2004 Team Member COFIN 2002 (€22.000) Funzioni zeta e L e problemi diofantei in teoria dei numeri
• 2000 - 2002 Team Member COFIN 2000 "GVA - Geometria delle varietà algebriche
• 2000 - 2003 Team Member EUROPEAN Grant HPRN - CP - 2002 - 00114 "GTEM (Galois Theory and Explicit Methods in Arithmetic)"
• 1997 - 1999 Local Team Leader Bilateral agreement: Roma TRE - Macquarie University
• 1996 Chief Investigator Circ. CNR Po. 125.11 "Programma di scambi internazionali per mobilità di breve durata"
• 1994 - 1995 Chief Investigator Human Capital and Mobility Contract number: CHBICT930706 "The Lang Trotter conjecture for abelian varieties"
• 1993 - Group Member GNSAGA from INDAM.

Organising Conferences, Schools, Workshops

CIMPA schools:

• Artin L-functions, Artin's primitive roots conjecture and applications, Nesin Mathematics Village, Şirince, Turkey, 2017
• Théorie Algébrique des Nombres et Applications & Cryptographie, Université Félix Houphouët BOIGNY, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 2017
• Algebraic curves over Finite Fields, University of the Phillipines Dillman, Manila, 2013
• Number Theory in Cryptography and Its Applications, ICM Satellite Event, School of Science, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, 2010

WAMS/SEAMS/EMA schools:

• Topics in algebraic number theory Salahaddin University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq October 2021
• Introductory topics in Number Theory and Differential Geometry King Khalid University, Abha. Saudi Arabia 2019
• Representation Theory College of Science, University of Sulaymaniyah, Sulaymaniyah/ Kurdistan Region/ Iraq 2019
• Topics in algebraic number theory and Diophantine approximation. Salahaddin University/Erbil - Kurdistan Region/IRAQ, 2017
• Topics in Analytic and Transcendental Number Theory Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) Zanjan, Iran 2017
• Algebraic Structures, Cryptography, Number Theory and applications. EMA African Mathematical School. Universidad de Cabo Verde, Praia 2015
• Southeast Asian Mathematical Society (SEAMS) School Topics On Elliptic Curves. University of the Phillipines Diliman 2017

CONFERENCES:

• SCHOLAR II - A Scientific Celebration Highlighting Open Lines of Arithmetic Research in honour of Professor M. Ram Murty's mathematical legacy on his 70th birthday, Fields Institute Toronto, Canada 2024
• Leuca2022 Celebrating Claude Levesque's, Damien Roy's and Michel Waldschmidt's birthdays, Marina di San Gregorio, Patù (Lecce), Italy 2022
• Annual meeting of the Committee for Developing Countries (CDC) of the European Mathematical Society (EMS), at the Accademia dei Lincei, 2017
• The Ninth International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education in Developing Countries Mandalay University, Mandalay, The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, 2016
• Leuca2016, Celebrating Michel Waldschmidt's 70th birthday Marina di San Gregorio, Patù (Lecce), Italy
• CIRM Conference: Dynamics and Graphs over Finite Fields: Algebraic, Number Theoretic and Algorithmic Aspects. Luminy 2016
• Mini Symposiums of the Roman Number Teory Association, Università Roma Tre, 2015 - 2020
• NATO ASI, Ohrid 2014 Arithmetic of Hyperelliptic Curves, Ohrid, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (scientific committee) 2014
• SCHOLAR - a Scientific Celebration Highlighting Open Lines of Arithmetic Research in honour of Professor M. Ram Murty's mathematical legacy on his 60th birthday, CRM Montréal, 2013
• La Teoria dei Numeri,Università Roma Tre, 2009
• International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields WAIFI08 Siena, Italy 2008
• Stato della Ricerca e Sviluppi Futuri, I primi 10 anni della facoltà di Scienze M.F.N., Università Roma Tre 2002
• XXI Journées Arithmétiques,Vatican, 2019
• Incontro Italiano Teoria dei Numeri, Università Rome Tre, 1995

Academic Visits

• 2025 - Salahaddin University Erbil, Iraq, Università di Helsinki, Università Clermont Auvergne Francia, Universidad de Valparaiso Chile, University College Cork, National Higher School of Mathematics (NHSM) Algiers Algeria, Universiteit Leiden Holland.
• 2024 - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics Bonn, Salahaddin University Erbil, Iraq, University of Helsinki, Università Clermont Auvergne, Francia, Fields Institute Toronto, Canada, Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), Universitè Alioune Diop de Bambey Senegal, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Georgia.
• 2023 - CIRM, Marsiglia, Francia, Università di Vienna, Austria, Industrial University of Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam, Università Di Caen, Francia, Universidad del Cauca, Popayan, Celombia, Università di Zagabria, Croazia, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics Bonn, Germania, Università di Bologna.
• 2022 - Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques, Dangbo, Bénin, Urghench State University, Uzbekistan, Salahaddin University Erbil, Iraq, University of Sulaimani, Iraq, University of Luxemburg, Politecnico di Torino, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germania, University of Edinburgh (UK)
• 2021 - AIMS - Senegal (M’bour) Senegal (online). University of Luxemburg. Université Lille, Francia.
• 2020 - Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• 2019 - Universidad de la República – Montevideo Uruguay, Tribhuvan University Nepal
• 2018 - Université de Kinshasa. People Republic of Congo, University of Laos Vientiane, Laos, University of the Witwatersrand. South Africa, CRM Montréal, Université Paris Diderot, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
• 2017 - Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM, Linz, Austria) , International Center for Theoretical Physics – Trieste Tribhuvan Uniersity Nepal, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Bonn), Università Statale di Milan
• 2016 - University of Lethbridge (Alberta). PIMS - Ulethbridge Distinguished Visitor, Tribhuvan University (Kirtipur – Nepal), Saigon University (Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam), Institute of Mathematics – Accademia Sinica, (Beijing, China), ERCOM meeting EULER Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• 2015 - Tribuvan University, Kirtipur (Nepal),National University of Mongolia, Ulan Batoor (Mongolia),Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing (China),Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia),Can Tho University (Vietnam)
• 2014 - Université de Lomé (Togo), Unversity of Baghdad (Iraq)
• 2013 - University of Dhaka (Bangladesh),Université de Lille 1 (France), Tribuvan University, Kirtipur (Nepal)
• 2012 - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
• 2011 - Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (Hungary), Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences, Lahore (Pakistan), Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur (Nepal)
• 2010 - Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad (India), Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona (Spain)
• 2009 - Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona (Spain) ,Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)
• 2008 - Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad (India)
• 2006 - Université de Montréal (Canada),Queen's University, Kingston (Canada) , Mysore University (India), Punjab University, Chandigarh (India)
• 2005 - University of Missouri, Columbia (USA) ,University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (USA) ,Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia),University of Pedagogy, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam),University of Kathmandu (Nepal),Université de La Polynésie Française, Thaiti (French Polynesia) ,Instituto de Matemáticas UNAM, Campus Morelia (Mexico), Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad (India)
• 2004 - Concordia University, Montréal (Canada),Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia),Kinki University, Iizuka, Fukuoka (Japan)
• 2003 - Universiteit Leiden (Netherland),University of Toronto (Canada),Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad (India),Università Federico II, Napoli (Italy)
• 2002 - Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia),Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad (India),Université de Caen (France),American University of Beiruth (Lebanon),Concordia University, Montréal (Canada)
• 2001 - Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad (India),Università G. d'Annunzio di Chieti - Pescara (Italy),Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona (Spain)
• 2000 - Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia),Concordia University, Montréal (Canada)
• 1999 - Concordia University, Montréal (Canada),Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)
• 1998 - Concordia University, Montréal (Canada),Università di Genova (Italy)
• 1997 - Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)
• 1996 - Concordia University, Montréal (Canada),Università di Genova (Italy)
• 1995 - Concordia University, Montréal (Canada)
• 1993 - University of Georgia, Athens (USA),University of Vermont (USA)