Gigliola Staffilani

Gigliola Staffilani
Gigliola Staffilani (2013)
BornMarch 24, 1966 (1966-03-24) (age 58)
Nationality
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
Thesis The initial value problem for some dispersive differential equations  (1995)
Doctoral advisorCarlos Kenig
Websitemath.mit.edu/~gigliola/

Gigliola Staffilani (born March 24, 1966)[1] is an Italian-American[2][3] mathematician who works as the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4][5][2] Her research concerns harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, including the Korteweg–de Vries equation and Schrödinger equation.

  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-02.
  2. ^ a b Baker, Billy (April 28, 2008), "A life of unexpected twists takes her from farm to math department", Boston Globe. Archived by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Women in Science initiative.
  3. ^ Talthia Williams (2018). Power in Numbers:The rebel women of mathematics. Race Point Publishing. pp. 219–221. ISBN 978-1631064852.
  4. ^ Curriculum vitae Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2015-01-01.
  5. ^ Staffilani, Gigliola (March 18, 2012), Quello Che Si Far per Amore? Della Matematica, Careers in the Math Sciences, archived from the original on April 1, 2018, retrieved January 1, 2015. An autobiographical retrospective of Staffilani's life and career.