This conference aims at paying a tribute to Corrado Segre on the occasion of his sesquicentennial birthday anniversary. Corrado Segre is widely recognized as one of the founders of the Italian School of Algebraic Geometry, where he counted G. Castelnuovo as an assistant, F. Enriques as a postdoc, F. Severi as a student, G. Fano and A. Terracini as students and colleagues. Moreover Corrado Segre is regarded as a crucial figure in the scientific evolution and in the history of Algebraic Geometry. He was appointed professor of "Geometria Superiore" ("Higher Geometry") in Turin in 1888 and he held this position for the next 36 years until his death. Still today his scientific heritage is unvaluable.

Thursday, November 28^th 2013
(Università di Torino, Rettorato, Aula Magna, Via Po 17)

14.30 Exhibition of the historical archives of the University of Turin

15.30 Opening Cerimony

16.00 Corrado Segre maestro a Torino, Alberto Conte (Torino)

16.30 Infinitesimal Terracini's Lemma, Ciro Ciliberto (Tor Vergata)

17.30 Corrado Segre and cubic threefolds, Igor Dolgachev (Ann Arbor)

Friday, November 29^th 2013
(Accademia delle Scienze, Sala dei Mappamondi, Via Maria Vittoria 3)

0 9.30 Stable Gorenstein surfaces with K²=1, Rita Pardini (Pisa)

10.30 Tensor Analysis and the Geometry of Segre Varieties, Luca Chiantini (Siena)

11.30 Blowing-up smooth curves in the projective space, Jérémy Blanc (Basel)

15.00 Le "orge geometriche torinesi". Corrado Segre docente e caposcuola (1887-1912),
15.00 Alberto Conte (Torino) e Livia Giacardi (Torino)

15.40 Segre's Contributions to the Theory of Quadratic Line Complexes, David Rowe (Mainz)

16.20 Segre, Castelnuovo, Enriques: una collaborazione mancata? Paola Gario (Milano)

17.00 Break

17.20 Corrado Segre e i suoi allievi. La costruzione di un'identità internazionale per la Scuola
15.00 italiana di geometria algebrica, Erika Luciano (Torino) e Clara Silvia Roero (Torino)

18.00 Segre e i fondamenti della geometria: dalla geometria proiettiva complessa ai numeri duali
15.00 Aldo Brigaglia (Palermo)

18.40 Panel discussion

20.00 Conference dinner

Saturday, November 30^th 2013
(Politecnico di Torino, Aula consiglio di Facolta', Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24)

0 9.30 The representation type of a Segre variety, Rosa Maria Miró-Roig (Barcelona)

10:30 On unirational conic bundles, Massimiliano Mella (Ferrara)

11.30 Geometry of lines and degeneracy loci of morphisms of vector bundles, Emilia Mezzetti (Trieste)