Curriculum Vitae of Gianni Dal Maso
Born in Vicenza, Italy, in
1954.
Education
1973-1977: Undergraduate
student in Mathematics at the University of Pisa, Italy, and student of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
1977: Degree in Mathematics
with honors at the University of Pisa, thesis: Gamma-limits of set functions,
advisor: Ennio De Giorgi.
1977: "Diploma" in
Mathematics of the Scuola Normale
Superiore, Pisa.
1977-1981: Post-graduate
Research Fellowship in Mathematics "Perfezionamento",
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Work
Experience
1982-1985: Assistant Professor
of Mathematical Analysis, Faculty of Engineering, University of Udine, Italy.
1985-1987: Associate Professor
of Mathematical Analysis, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA),
Trieste, Italy.
1987-present: Full Professor
of Mathematical Analysis, SISSA, Trieste.
1993-1998 and 2001-2010: Head
of the Sector of Functional Analysis and Applications, SISSA, Trieste.
2010-2015: Deputy Director of
SISSA, Trieste.
2016-2020: Coordinator of the
Mathematics Area of SISSA, Trieste.
Scientific
Committees and Academies
1990-1996 and 2017-present:
Member of the Scientific Council of the Centro Internazionale
Matematico Estivo (CIME).
1994-2018: Member of the
Scientific Council of the Italian Mathematical Union (UMI).
2012-present:
Corresponding Member of the
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
2014-present: Corresponding
Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Awards
1982: Stampacchia
Prize, awarded by the Scuola Normale
Superiore, for an article on obstacle problems (ex aequo with M. Aizenman, H. W.
Alt, L.A. Caffarelli, A. Friedman, B. Simon).
1990: Caccioppoli
Prize, awarded by the Italian Mathematical Union.
1996:
Medaglia dei XL per la
Matematica, awarded by the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei
XL.
2003: Prize of the Minister
for the Cultural Heritage for Mathematics and Mechanics, awarded by the
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
2005:
Prize Luigi and Wanda Amerio, awarded
by the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.
Important
Invitations
2000: Invited lecturer in the
3rd European Congress of Mathematics, Barcelona.
2002: EMS Lecturer.
2006: Plenary speaker in the
Conference "Mathematics and its Applications", Torino, a Joint
Meeting of SIMAI, SMAI, SMF, UMI.
Member
of the Editorial Boards of the Following Scientific Journals
1991-present: Mathematical Models and Methods in
Applied Sciences.
1992-2012:
Bollettino della
Unione Matematica Italiana.
1993-present:
Rendiconti dell'Istituto di
Matematica dell'Universit di Trieste.
1993-present: Journal of Convex Analysis.
1997-present:
Asymptotic Analysis.
2000-present:
Annali di Matematica Pura ed
Applicata.
2003-present: ESAIM. Control Optimisation and Calculus of Variations.
2005-present: Archive
for Rational Mechanics and Analysis.
2008-present: Advances
in Calculus of Variations.
2008-present: Set-Valued
and Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications.
2009-present: SIAM Journal on Mathematical
Analysis.
2011-present:
Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico
di Palermo.
2014-present:
Rendiconti Lincei - Matematica e
Applicazioni.
Ph.D. Theses
Advisor
of the Ph.D. thesis of 42
SISSA students (Paderni,
Balzano, Defranceschi, Chiad
Piat, De Cicco, Vitali, Amar, Bellettini,
Coscia, Notarantonio, Garroni,
Malusa, Cortesani, Toader,
Dall'Aglio, Leone, Mora, Morini, Negri, Giacomini, Ponsiglione,
Zanini, Barchiesi, Cagnetti, Scardia, Demyanov, Fiaschi, Lazzaroni, Solombrino,
Morandotti, Agostiniani, Iurlano, Racca, Scala, Almi,
Crismale, Orlando, Nardini, Caponi, Tasso, Riva, Sapio).
Jury
Member Abroad
1984: Jury member (Rapporteur)
of the “Thèse de Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences Mathématiques” of Colette Picard, Université
Paris Sud, France.
1992: Jury member (Fakultetsopponent) of the “Doctoral Thesis” of Nils Svanstedt, Luleå University of
Technology, Sweden.
1996: Jury member (Rapporteur)
of the “Thèse de Doctorat”
of Juan Casado-Diaz, Université Pierre et Marie
Curie, Paris VI, France.
1998: Jury member (Rapporteur)
of the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" of Marc Briane, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France.
2002: Jury member (Examinateur) of the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" of
Antonin Chambolle, Université
Paris IX Dauphine, France.
2008: Jury member (Rapporteur)
of the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" of Simon Masnou,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France.
2013: Jury member (Rapporteur)
of the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" of Michel Bellieud,
Université Montpellier 2, France.
2013: Jury member (Rapporteur)
of the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" of Jean-Franois Babadjian, Université Pierre et
Marie Curie, Paris VI, France.
2013: Member of the AERES
Visiting Committee of the Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Orsay, France.
2016: Jury member (Rapporteur)
of the " Thèse de Doctorat" of Clément Mifsud, Université
Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France.
2017: Jury member (Examiner)
of the Ph.D. thesis of Xaver Gmeineder,
Green Templeton College, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Visiting
Professor
1989, March: Université de Metz.
1990, November: IMA,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
1991, April: Université de Toulon et du Var.
1991, June: Université de Metz.
1994, April: Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh.
1998, January: Academia Sinica, Taipei.
1998, October-November: Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Paris VI.
1999, October-November: Newton
Institute, Cambridge.
2000, May: Paris IX Dauphine.
2001, January : Paris IX
Dauphine.
2002, October: Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh.
2004, May: Keio University,
Yokohama.
2004, May: Caltech, Pasadena.
2005, October: Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh.
2007, May: Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh.
2008, April: Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh.
2008, October: Max-Planck
Institute, Leipzig.
2009, April: Worcester
Polytechnic Institute.
2009, September-October:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
2010, May: Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
2011, May: Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh.
2012, April-May: Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
2014,
June: Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh.
2015, May-June: Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
2015, October: Worcester
Polytechnic Institute.
2016, April-May: Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
2017, May: Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh.
Workshops
Organized
1985: International Workshop
on "Integral Functionals in the Calculus of Variations", SISSA,
Trieste, 9-12 September 1985, with L. Modica. Proceedings in: Supplemento ai Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico
di Palermo (2) 15 (1987).
1987: "Workshop on Semicontinuity and Relaxation", SISSA, Trieste, 25-29
May 1987, with G. Buttazzo.
1989: Workshop on
"Problems in Liquid Crystals and Multiphase Crystals", SISSA,
Trieste, 29 May - 1 June 1989, with C. Davini.
1990: Workshop on
"Composite Media and Homogenization Theory", ICTP, Trieste, 15-26 January
1990, with G.F. Dell’Antonio. Proceedings in:
Composite Media and Homogenization Theory, G. Dal Maso
and G.F. Dell’Antonio eds., Birkhuser,
Boston, 1991.
1992: Workshop on
"Relaxation Methods in Irregular Variational Problems: Applications to
Phase Transitions, Homogenization, and Image Segmentation", SISSA,
Trieste, 27-30 April 1992, with G. Buttazzo and G.F. Dell’Antonio.
1993: School on
Homogenization, ICTP-SISSA, Trieste, 6-17 September 1993, and Second Workshop
on "Composite Media and Homogenization Theory", ICTP, Trieste, 20
September - 1 October, 1993, with G.F. Dell’Antonio.
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Composite Media and Homogenization
Theory, G. Dal Maso and G.F. Dell’Antonio
eds., World Scientific, Singapore, 1995.
1994: Meeting on
"Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Arising from Variational
Problems", Cortona, 23-24 May 1994, with N. Garofalo.
1999: "Calculus of
Variations and Partial Differential Equations", Isola D'Elba,
24-30 October 1999, with L. Ambrosio and D. Fortunato.
2000: "Calculus of
Variations", Oberwolfach, 2-8 July 2000, with G.
Friesecke and F. Helein.
2000: School and Conference on
Mathematical Problems in Image Processing, ICTP, Trieste, 4-22 September 2000,
with L. Ambrosio and J.-M. Morel.
2001: "Variational
Methods for Discontinuous Structures. Applications to Image Segmentation and
Continuum Mechanics", Villa Erba, Cernobbio, 4-6 July 2001, with F. Tomarelli.
Proceedings in: Variational Methods for Discontinuous Structures, G. Dal Maso and F. Tomarelli eds., Birkhuser, Boston, 2002.
2002: "Calculus of
Variations", Oberwolfach, 30 June - 6 July 2002,
with G. Friesecke and T. Riviere.
2004: "Calculus of
Variations", Oberwolfach, 13-19 June 2004, with
G. Friesecke and T. Riviere.
2004: "Variational
Problems in Materials Science", SISSA, Trieste, 6-10 September 2004, with
A. De Simone and F. Tomarelli. Proceedings in:
Variational Problems in Materials Science, G. Dal Maso,
A. De Simone, and F. Tomarelli eds., Birkhuser, Boston, 2006.
2007: "Analysis and Numerics for Rate-Independent Processes", Oberwolfach, 25 February - 3 March 2007, with G. Francfort, A. Mielke, and T. Roubicek.
2008:
"Trent'anni di Analisi Matematica alla SISSA: il contributo degli ex
allievi", 24-27 November 2008, with A. Agrachev, A. Ambrosetti, S. Bianchini, A. DeSimone, A. Malchiodi, and G. Vidossich.
2011: "Mathematical
Models, Analysis, and Numerical Methods for Dynamic Fracture",
Mini-Workshop, Oberwolfach, 25-29 April, with C.J.
Larsen and C. Ortner.
2012:
“Variational Problems with
Multiple Scales”, Otranto, 6-8 giugno, con A. Leaci e F. Tomarelli.
2013:
“Evolution Problems for Material Defects: Dislocations, Plasticity, and Fracture”, SISSA, Trieste, 30 settembre- 4 ottobre, con A.
De Simone, I. Fonseca, and F. Otto.
2016:
“Advances in the Mathematical Analysis of Material Defects in Elastic Solids”, SISSA, Trieste,
6-10 giugno, con A. De Simone e M. Morandotti.
2017: “Miniworkshop
on dislocations, plasticity, and fracture”, SISSA, Trieste, 13-16 febbraio, with R. Toader.
Research
Activity
The research activity of
Gianni Dal Maso is devoted to the Calculus of
Variations, in particular to semicontinuity and
relaxation problems, Gamma-convergence, and, more recently, to free
discontinuity problems and applications to mechanics.
Publications
A book: An Introduction to
Gamma-Convergence, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1993.
More than one hundred articles
in scientific journals.
Until July 2022, Gianni Dal Maso has been cited 4703 times (h-index 35) according to ISI Web of Knowledge,
and 6087 times (by 2956 authors) according to MR
Citation Database.