Giovanni Falcone received his Ph.D. in Erlangen, Germany in 1998, and has been an Assistant Professor in Palermo, Italy since 1999. His work mainly focuses on Lie algebras, Lie groups and algebraic groups, and (in combinatorics) on block designs. He has been invited to give lectures at the University of Technology in Budapest (2017), at Nankai University in Tianjin (2016), and at the Nesin Mathematics Village in Izmir (2015). At the University of Palermo, he coordinated the project “Lie groups, Differential equations, and Geometry,” supported by the Marie Curie Action nr. 317721. This book is one of the outcomes of the project.
