Summary
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