PRIN 2012 “ Geometric Structures , Combinatorics and their Applications ” Principal Investigator : Guglielmo Lunardon 1 Short

The main objective of this Project is to develop and promote basic research in the framework of Incidence Geometries, Galois Geometries and Combinatorics, both through active investigation performed by the involved researchers on subjects of great up-to-date scientific interest and through the organisation of national and international Conferences, Workshops and specialised Schools. Further, special computer algebra software packages will be used, and new subpackages will be written, for studying finite structures. As for applications, joint research will be developed both with researchers, also outside of the academic world, and with public and private research institutions. The main themes are listed below which are relevant to this Project as well as those problems to whose solution significant contributions will hopefully be made.