Franco BREZZI

Present Activities


University

Professor of Numerical Analysis at the IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori) of Pavia
Coordinator of the IUSS Ph.D. Program
President of the UMI (Italian Mathematical Union)

C.N.R.

Director of the Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche ( IMATI) of CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)


Foreign Institutions

Member of the Executive Committee of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) 2009-2012.


Journals


(in chronological order)


Managing Editor of Mathematical Models & Methods in Applied Sciences

Editor of CALCOLO

Managing Editor of Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences (World)

Editor-in-Chief of Numerische Mathematik

Editor-in-Chief of Springer Lecture Notes of the Unione Matematica Italiana

Director of Bollettino della Unione Matematica Italiana

Director of La Matematica nella Società e nella Cultura



Part of the Editorial Staff of (in chronologic order)
ESAIM Modélisation Mathématique et Analyse Numérique
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Applied Mathematics Letters
Monographs in Mathematics (Birkhäuser)
Acta numerica
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences
Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering
Springer Series in Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics
Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, Sezione B
Rendiconti Lincei - Matematica e Applicazioni
Ricerche di Matematica
Computational Mechanics
Bulletin od Mathematical Sciences

Memberships

Member of the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere
Founding Member of the International Society for Computational Engineering & Sciences
Corresponding Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Member of Gruppo 2003
Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Awards

Premio Città di Cagliari 1991 (with C. Cercignani)
T.H.H. Pian Medal at ICES'2K, 2000
Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM 2002)
ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Mathematics
IACM Congress Medal (Gauss-Newton Medal) at the World Congress of Computational Mechanics (Beijing, China, 2004)
SIAM Von Neumann Award (Denver, USA, 2009)
R.E. Marker Lecturer (State College, USA, 2010)
Premio Gili-Agostinelli 2010 of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (Torino, Italy, 2010)

Special Lectures

Berkeley 1986 IMU Congress Invited Panel Lecture (Numerical Analysis)
Miami 1993 COMPUMAG Invited Plenary Lecture
Dundee 1999 Numerical Analysis 1999 A.R. Mitchell Lecture
Boston 2001 Singapore-MIT Alliance Distinguished Speaker Seminar HPCES
College Park 2001 Aziz Lecture
Brunel MAFELAP 2003 Newton Lecture
Sidney 2003 ICIAM Congress Invited Plenary Lecture.
Gainesville 2004 Workshop History lecture on the inf-sup condition (slides)
Los Angeles 2007 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics Invited Plenary Lecture
Hong Kong 2008 FoCM08 Congress Invited Plenary Lecture
Denver 2009 SIAM 2009 Meeting John Von Neumann Lecture
State College 2010 Penn State Russell Earl Marker Lectures




Past Activities


University

Teacher of Mathematical Analysis at the Engineering Faculty of the Politecnico di Torino
(1976-1977)
Teacher of Mathematical Analysis at the Engineering Faculty of the Università di Pavia
(1977-2006)
Director of the Istituto di Matematica Applicata of the University of Pavia (1978-1981)
Director of the Dipartimento di Meccanica Strutturale of the University of Pavia (1983-1986)
Member of the Committee for the Teaching of Mathematics in Engineering Faculties of the Italian Mathematical Union ( UMI ) (1983-2003)
Member of the Consiglio di Amministrazione of the University of Pavia (1991-1993, 1993-1995 and 1995-1997)
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centro Grandi Strumenti of the University of Pavia
President of the CNR-University of Pavia joint Committee




C.N.R.

Coordinator of the subproject CADFI within the Progetto Finalizzato Informatica (1978-1983)
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo (Roma) (1988-1992 and 1992-1996)
Member of the Comitato di Progetto e del Consiglio degli utenti of the Progetto Finalizzato Sistemi informatici e calcolo Parallelo
Director of the Istituto di Analisi Numerica (Pavia) (1992-2001)




OTHER SOCIETIES AND RESEARCH CENTERS

Member of the Conseil Scientifique of the National Center for Scientific Researches (CNRS) of France 2005-2010.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIMAI) from 1990 to 2008
Member of the Kuratorium of the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2003 to 2008
Member of the Consejo Cientifico of the Instituto Madrileño De Estudios Avanzados - Matemáticas ( IMDEA Matemáticas ) in 2008




Journals

Editor-in-Chief of UNITEXT (Springer) 1998-2008



Part of the Editorial Staff of
Numerische Mathematik (1981-2001)
Computational and Applied Mathematics (1988-2004)
Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1984-1996)
Computational Mechanics (1984-1995)
Revista Matemática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1988-1992)
Impact of Computing in Science and Engineering (1989-1993)
Siberian Journal of Computer mathematics (1992)
Computational Mechanics Advances (1994-1995)
International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation (2000)
Revista Matemática Complutense (2001-2004)
Applicable Analysis (1996-2006)
Computers & Structures (1997-2006)






brezzi@imati.cnr.it, July 2011