Antonella Zanna

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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]

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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]

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References

  1. "Antonella Zanna", Persons, University of Bergen, retrieved 2020-04-06
  2. Antonella Zanna, University of Bergen, 2005, archived from the original on 2005-02-11
  3. Antonella Zanna at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. IMA Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications , retrieved 2020-04-06
  5. Medlemmer, Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences , retrieved 2020-04-06
  6. Short curriculum vitae: Hans Munthe-Kaas , retrieved 2020-04-06

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