Marco
Reni
In a tragic accident in the mountains, Marco Reni died on Saturday
10th of
June
2000, at the age of 37 years, on a climbing tour on a summit in the Carnian alps,
two hours distance north of
vocation of his life, he knew very well
most parts of
the alps and had also
experience in
Marco was born on the 28th
of September 1962 in
Milano, as the second of six children. He studied physics at the
In the same year he transferred to Trieste where he started a
PhD-program at
the
SISSA, a graduate school in science situated close to the ICTP
(International
Center of Theoretical Physics,
well-known also
among mathematicians for its
conferences and its location in one of the most beautiful places of the
Trieste
seaside). Here Marco started working in low-dimensional topology which
should
remain his main working field from now on. After an interruption by his
military
service in 1987/88, he got his PhD in 1991 at the SISSA. From 1991 to
1993 he
was
in
with a grant from the Italian government (CNR). In 1993 he obtained the
permanent
position of Ricercatore
at the
(centralized) Concorso of geometry in
at the
he visited for professional reasons for some extended period one may
mention
the
Premio Marco Reni
With the
generous help from his friends, colleagues and in particular from his
sister Anna Reni and her family,
a
Premio Marco Reni, of 500
Euro, was created at the
a student in mathematics at the
(Laurea cinquennale up to 2005/2006, Laurea magistrale since
2007/2008). The price was
awarded as follows:
2002/2003
Orsola Tommasi
2003/2004
Luis Alberto Molina Rojas
2004/2005
Elisa Rossit
2005/2006 Luca Bortolussi, Lorenzo Pellis
2007/2008
Nicola Tito Pagani
2008/2009
Andrea Mondino
2009/2010
Elisa Davoli, Alessandra Guazzi
2010/2011
Luca Ghirardelli, Flaviana Iurlano
Special volume dedicated to the memory of Marco Reni
A special volume of the
mathematical journal of the
Rend. Istit
Mat. Univ.
is dedicated to the memory of Marco
Reni. This volume contains 21 papers, mainly in
low-dimensional topology, from 36
different authors.
Publications
of Marco Reni
1. V.Berzi,
M.Reni, Weak
Riemannian structures on gauge-group orbits.
Int.J.Theor.Phys. 26,
151-174 (1987)
2. M.Reni, A graph-theoretical approach to Kleinian
groups.
Proc.London Math.Soc.
67, 200-224 (1993)
3. M.Reni,
B.Zimmermann, Handlebody orbifolds
and Schottky
uniformizations of hyperbolic
2-orbifolds.
Proc.Amer.Math.Soc. 123, 3907-3914 (1995)
4. M.Reni,
B.Zimmermann, Extending finite group
actions from
surfaces to handlebodies.
Proc.Amer.Math.Soc. 124, 2877-2887 (1996)
5. M.Reni,
Hyperbolic links and cyclic branched coverings.
Topology Appl. 77, 51-56 (1997)
6. M.Reni,
Cyclic actions on compression bodies.
Rend.Circ.Mat.Palermo 46,
71-88 (1997)
7. M.Reni, Dihedral branched coverings of hyperbolic orbifolds.
Geom.Dedicata 67,
271-283 (1997)
8. M.Reni, The isometry
groups of
genus 2 hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
9. L.Paoluzzi,
M.Reni,
Homologically
trivial actions on cyclic
coverings of knots.
Pacific J.Math.
188, 155-178 (1999)
10. M.Reni,
B.Zimmermann, Isometry
groups of hyperbolic 3-manifolds which
are cyclic branched
coverings.
Geom.Dedicata 74, 23-35 (1999)
11. M.Reni,
Finite group actions with fixed points on homology 3-spheres.
Monatshefte Math. 128,
23-33 (1999)
12. M.Reni, On
the isometry groups of cyclic branched
coverings of
hyperbolic knots.
Quart.J.Math.Oxford 51, 87-92 (2000)
13. M.Reni, On
$\pi$-hyperbolic knots with the same 2-fold branched coverings.
Math.Ann. 316,
681-697 (2000)
14. M.Mecchia,
M.Reni, Hyperbolic
2-fold branched coverings of 3-bridge knots.
15. M.Reni,
On finite groups acting on homology
3-spheres.
J.London Math.Soc.
63, 226-246 (2001)
16. A.Mednykh,
M.Reni, Twofold unbranched
coverings of genus two
3-manifolds are hyperelliptic.
17. M.Mecchia,
M.Reni, Hyperbolic
2-fold branched coverings of links and
their quotients.
Pacific J.Math.
202, 429-447 (2002)
18. M.Reni,
B.Zimmermann, On
hyperelliptic involutions of hyperbolic
3-manifolds.
Math.Ann. 321, 295-317 (2001)
19. M.Reni,
B.Zimmermann,
Hyperbolic
3-manifolds as cyclic branched coverings.
Comment.Math.Helv. 76,
300-313 (2001)
20. M.Reni,
B.Zimmermann, Standard situations for
cyclic branched
coverings
of hyperbolic knots.
Math.Z. 239,
415-424 (2002)
21. M.Reni,
B.Zimmermann,
Hyperbolic
3-manifolds and cyclic branched
coverings of knots and links.
Atti Sem.Mat.Fis.Univ.Modena,
Suppl. Vol. 49, 135-153 (2001)
22. M.Reni,
B.Zimmermann,
Finite
simple groups acting on 3-manifolds.
Rend.Istit.Mat.Univ.Trieste
Suppl.1 Vol. 32, 305-315 (2001)
23. M.Reni,
A.Vesnin, Hidden
symmetries of cyclic branched coverings of 2-bridge knots.
Rend.Istit.Mat.Univ.Trieste
Suppl.1 Vol. 32, 289-304 (2001)
24. A.Mednykh,
M.Reni, A.Vesnin,
B.Zimmermann, Three-fold coverings and hyperelliptic
manifolds: a three-dimensional version of a theorem
of Accola.
Rend.Istit.Mat.Univ.Trieste
Suppl.1 Vol. 32, 181-191 (2001)