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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Zanna married to Norwegian mathematician Hans Munthe-Kaas in 1997; they have two children and a dog.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Antonella Zanna", Persons, University of Bergen, retrieved 2020-04-06
- ^ Antonella Zanna, University of Bergen, 2005, archived from the original on 2005-02-11
- ^ Antonella Zanna at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ IMA Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, retrieved 2020-04-06
- ^ Medlemmer, Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, retrieved 2020-04-06
- ^ Short curriculum vitae: Hans Munthe-Kaas, retrieved 2020-04-06
Further reading
[edit]- "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 (newspaper story about late Christmas shopping with Zanna and her sister)
External links
[edit]- Antonella Zanna publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- People from Molfetta
- Italian mathematicians
- Italian women mathematicians
- Norwegian mathematicians
- Norwegian women mathematicians
- Numerical analysts
- University of Bari alumni
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Academic staff of the University of Bergen
- Members of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences