Margarida Mendes Lopes

                                   
                                           Full name: Margarida Maria Nunes da Silva Rendeiro Marques Mendes Lopes

 
Adress:    Departamento de Matemática
                    Instituto Superior Técnico                                     Phone :  (+351) 218417126 (office)

               Av. Rovisco Pais                                                                      (+351) 218417 211(general)   
               1049-001 Lisboa                                                     Fax:     (+351) 218417598
  PORTUGAL                                                            e-mail: mmlopes@math.ist.utl.pt




Academic  degrees:




 Research:

 Interests: Algebraic Geometry - Complex algebraic surfaces

I was a member of the Warwick node of the European project Eager


Papers:
Published or accepted for publication:

Journals:


1. M.Mendes Lopes, Adjoint systems on surfaces, Boll. Unione Mat. Ital., (7) 10-A (1996), 169-179. (pdf)

2. C.Ciliberto, P.Francia, M.Mendes Lopes, Remarks on the bicanonical map for surfaces of general type,  Math. Zeit., 224 (1997), 137-166.

3. C.Ciliberto, M.Mendes Lopes,  Surfaces of general type with K^2=2\chi -2 and torsion, Geometria Dedicata, 66 (1997), 313-329.

4. M.Mendes Lopes, The degree of the generators of the canonical ring of surfaces of general type with p_g=q=0, Arch. Math., 69 (1997), 435-440.

5.F.Catanese, C.Ciliberto, M.Mendes Lopes , On the classification of irregular surfaces of general type with non birational bicanonical map, Transactions of the AMS, 350, No.1, (January 1998), 275-308.

6. M. Mendes Lopes, R.Pardini,  Irregular canonical double surfaces,  Nagoya Math.J., vol. 152, (Dec.1998), 203-230.

7.K.Konno, M.Mendes Lopes , On a question of Miles Reid,  Manuscripta Mathematica, 100, 1 (1999), 81-86.

8.M.Mendes Lopes, R.Pardini, Triple canonical surfaces of minimal degree, Int.  J.  of Mathematics, vol. 11, n.
o 4 (2000), 553-578.

9.C.Ciliberto, M.Mendes Lopes, On regular surfaces of general type with p_g=3 and non-birational bicanonical map,  Journal of Mathematics Kyoto University, 40-1 (2000), 79-117.

10. M. Mendes Lopes, R. Pardini ,  A connected component of the moduli space of surfaces  with p_g=0,  Topology 40 (5), (2001),  977--991.

11 .M. Mendes Lopes, R. Pardini , The bicanonical map of surfaces with p_g=0 and
K^2\ge 7, 
  Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 33 (2001), 265--274.

12. I.Dolgachev, M. Mendes Lopes, R. Pardini, Rational surfaces  with many
nodes,
  Compositio Mathematica, 132, 2002, 349-363.

13. C.Ciliberto, M. Mendes Lopes, On surfaces with p_g=q=2 and non-birational
bicanonical map,
 Advances in Geometry, Vol. 2, Issue 3 / 2002, 281-300.

14. M. Mendes Lopes,  R. Pardini ,  Enriques surfaces with eight nodes,   Math. Z.,  241 (2002), 673-683.

 15. M. Mendes Lopes, R. Pardini , The bicanonical map of surfaces with p_g=0 and
K^2\ge 7,  II,
   Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 35 (2003), 331--343.

16.  M. Mendes Lopes,  A note on a theorem of Xiao Gang,   Collect. Math. 55,1 (2004), 33-36.

17.  M. Mendes Lopes,  R. Pardini A new family of surfaces with p_g=0 and K^2=3,    Annales Scientifiques  de L'Ecole Normale Supérieure, vol. 37, Issue 4, July-August 2004, 507-531 .

18.  M. Mendes Lopes,  R. Pardini  Surfaces of general type with p_g=0, K^2=6  and non birational bicanonical map Math. Annalen, vol. 329, Number 3 (July 2004), 535-552 .

19.   A. Calabri, C. Ciliberto, M. Mendes Lopes  Even sets of four nodes on rational surfaces,   Math. Res. Letters,   11  (2004),  no. 5-6, 799--808.

20.    A. Calabri, C. Ciliberto, M. Mendes Lopes   Numerical Godeaux surfaces with an involution,  Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359  (2007), 1605-1632.

21.  M. Mendes Lopes,  R. Pardini   The degree of the bicanonical map of a surface with p_g=0,  Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007),
1279-1282.

22. M. Mendes Lopes, R. Pardini  On the algebraic fundamental group of surfaces with K²\leq 3\chi,  
Journal of Differential Geometry, vol. 77, no. 2, (2007), 189-199,
 math.AG/0512483

23. C. Ciliberto, M. Mendes Lopes, R. Pardini  Surfaces with K^2<3\chi and finite fundamental group, Math. Res. Lett., 14(6):1081-1098, 2007., arXiv:0706.1784 ,

24.  A. Calabri, M. Mendes Lopes, R. Pardini  Involutions on numerical Campedelli surfaces, Tohoku Math. J. 60 (2008), 1-22, math.AG/0511391  ,

25 
K.Konno, M.Mendes Lopes   The base components of the dualizing sheaf of a curve on a surface,   Archiv der Mathematik, 90 (2008), 395-400.

26.  M. Mendes Lopes, R.Pardini   Numerical Campedelli surfaces with fundamental group of order  9,   Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS), 10 (2008), 457-476.

27. M.Mendes Lopes, R.Pardini, M. Reid, Campedelli surfaces with fundamental group of order 8,   Geometria Dedicata,   139 (2009), 49--55.

28. M.Mendes Lopes, R.Pardini, On surfaces with pg=2q-3, to appear in Advances in Geometry.

29.
M.Mendes Lopes, R.Pardini, Severi type inequalities,  to appear in Comm. Math. Helv.


Proceedings:
  30. C. Ciliberto, M. Mendes Lopes, On surfaces with p_g=2, q=1 and non-birational bicanonical map,
Algebraic Geometry, a Volume in Memory of Paolo Francia, Beltrametti and alt. (eds.), De Gruyter, 2002, 117-126.

31. M. Mendes Lopes, R. Pardini , A survey on the  bicanonical map of surfaces with p_g=0 and K^2\ge 2,  Algebraic Geometry, a Volume in Memory of Paolo Francia, Beltrametti and alt. (eds.), De Gruyter, 2002, 277-287.

32. M.Mendes Lopes, R.Pardini The order of finite algebraic fundamental groups of surfaces with K^2\leq 3\chi-2,   ''Algebraic geometry and Topology" Suurikaiseki kenkyusho Koukyuuroku, No. 1490 (2006), pp. 69--75, math.AG/0605733


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Ph.D. students:


Carlos Rito (Thesis   "On surfaces of general type with p_g=q=1 having an involution" defended  25th January 2008)

Maria Marti  Sanchez (Thesis  "Classes of surfaces with special features" defended 4th December 2009)


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  Organization of meetings and courses  ( 2004-2010)

2010:

VBAC (14-18 June 2010)

IST Courses on Algebraic Geometry: V  (1-4 February 2010)


2009:

IST Courses on Algebraic Geometry: IV  (7-10 September 2009)

Tarde SPM-CIM em Geometria Algébrica (7 March 2009)

 2007:

Tarde CIM em Topologia Algébrica (24 de Novembro de 2007)

Scientific comittee of
 the IV Iberoamerican Conference on Complex Geometry
(photo)

2006:


IST Courses on Algebraic Geometry:

                                 III-   Introduction to classical Cremona transformations (May 2006)


 2005:

Algebraic Geometry and Topological String Theory
(thematic period)

 2004:

Workshop on Algebraic Geometry and Physics


IST Courses on Algebraic Geometry:

                                 I -  Techniques of Algebraic Geometry (May 2004)


                                II - Degeneration techniques in Algebraic Geometry  (September 2004)






Teaching
2009-2010
Sabatical leave

2008-2009:
Introdução à Geometria
Álgebra Linear(práticas)




2007-2008:
Geometria Algébrica
Introdução à Geometria
Seminário de Matemática
Seminário de Investigação e Relatório
Álgebra Linear(práticas)


2006-2007:

Álgebra Linear
 Seminário de Matemática
Seminário de Investigação e Relatório


2005-2006:

Álgebra Linear
Geometria Algébrica

2004-2005:
Álgebra Linear
Geometria Algébrica

2003-2004:

Geometria Algébrica
Álgebra Linear


2002-2003:    Sabbatical leave

2001-2002:  

Introdução à Geometria Algébrica
(4th year course)
Curvas algébricas complexas  ( 'Mestrado' course )
Tópicos de Geometria Algébrica (reading course )

2000-2001:

Introdução à Geometria Algébrica (4th year course)
Geometria I (1st year course)









C.V.  (Portuguese- 14 April 2008)

Seminários, cursos e comunicações



 Some texts:

Opinião sobre o documento Princípios reguladores de Concursos, Contratações e Avaliações de Desempenho  (October 2009)

Comentário a um documento do MCES sobre o financiamento da investigação em Portugal (April 2004).

Uma proposta de programa de Álgebra Linear para os cursos de Engenharia do IST (November 2006)
Um texto de divulgação  (December 2000)
Photos:

Kyoto: A, B,