Frontmatter -- Contents -- Characterization of Veronese varieties via -- projection in Grassmannians -- Birational geometry of defective varieties -- Fano threefolds as hyperplane sections -- Triple points imposing triple divisors and the -- defective hierarchy -- M15 is rationally connected -- Codimension one decompositions and Chow -- varieties -- Higher secant varieties of Segre-Veronese -- varieties -- An appendix to a paper of Catalisano, Geramita, -- Gimigliano: The Hilbert function of generic sets of 2-fat points in P1 × -- P1 -- The 3-cuspidal quartic and braid monodromy of -- degree 4 coverings -- On the classification of defective -- threefolds -- Matching conditions for degenerating plane curves -- and applications -- Negative curves on very general blow-ups of -- P2 -- Linear congruences and hyperbolic systems of -- conservation laws -- A note on the very ampleness of complete linear -- systems on blowings-up of P3 -- Phylogenetic algebraic geometry -- Some results on fat points whose support is a -- complete intersection minus a point -- The (unexpected) importance of knowing α -- Hilbert functions of Gorenstein algebras associated -- to a pencil of forms -- Varieties of reductions for gln -- Birational geometry of rationally connected -- manifolds via quasi-lines -- On the discriminant of spanned line bundles -- Multisecant lines to projective varieties -- Cycle map on Hilbert schemes of nodal -- curves -- Backmatter