Biography:Antonella Zanna
Antonella Zanna Munthe-Kaas is an Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst whose research includes work on numerical integration of differential equations and applications to medical imaging. She is a professor and head of the mathematics department at the University of Bergen in Norway.[1]
Education
Zanna was born in Molfetta, in southern Italy, and earned a degree in mathematics from the University of Bari. She completed her PhD in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge[2] in 1998. Her dissertation, Numerical Solution of Isospectral Flows, was supervised by Arieh Iserles.[3]
Recognition
Zanna won the Second Prize in the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis in 1997.[4] She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.[5]
Personal life
Zanna married to Norwegian mathematician Hans Munthe-Kaas in 1997; they have two children and a dog.[6]
References
- ↑ "Antonella Zanna", Persons (University of Bergen), https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Antonella.Zanna, retrieved 2020-04-06
- ↑ Antonella Zanna, University of Bergen, 2005, http://www.ii.uib.no/~anto/
- ↑ Antonella Zanna at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ IMA Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, https://ima.org.uk/awards-medals/ima-leslie-fox-prize-numerical-analysis/, retrieved 2020-04-06
- ↑ Medlemmer, Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, https://www.ntva.no/medlemmer/, retrieved 2020-04-06
- ↑ Short curriculum vitae: Hans Munthe-Kaas, http://hans.munthe-kaas.no/work/Vitae.html, retrieved 2020-04-06
Further reading
- "Vi er visst helt ute å kjøre: Klokken er tolv. Søstrene Paola og Antonella fra Molfetta helt sør i Italia, der hælen på støvelen begynner, er ikke helt oppdatert på norske stengetider", Bergens Tidende, 24 December 2016, https://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/i/w2ldA/vi-er-visst-helt-ute-aa-kjoere (newspaper story about late Christmas shopping with Zanna and her sister)
External links
- Antonella Zanna publications indexed by Google Scholar
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