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Umberto Mosco

Professor
Harold J. Gay Professor

Office: Stratton Hall, 307
Phone: +1-508-831-5074
Fax: +1-508-831-5824
mosco@wpi.edu

Educational Background

• Laurea, University of Rome, 1959
• Laurea, University of Rome, 1961
• Libera Docenza, Italy, 1967

Research & Teaching Interests

Partial Differential Equations; Convex Analysis; Optimal Control; Variational Calculus; Fractals

Recent Publications

• Highly Conductive Fractal Layers. Proc. Conf. "Whence the Boundary Conditions in Modern Continuum Physics?" Accademia dei Lincei, Roma, 10-14.6.2002 – Atti Convegni Lincei, 2004.

• Harnack Inequalities on Scale Irregular Sierpinski Gaskets. In: Nonlinear Problems in Mathematical Physics and Related Topics, II. In honor of Prof. Olga A. Ladyzenskaya, Kluwer-Plenum Publ., 2003.

• Irregular Similarity and Quasi-Metric Scaling. In: Proc. Conf. "Stochastics and Potential Theory," Saint-Priest de Gimel, Sept. 2002 – Potential Anal., 2003.

• Energy Functionals on Certain Fractal Structures, J. Convex Anal., Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 581-600, 2002.

• Harnack Inequalities on Recurrent Metric Fractals, Trudy Matem. Inst. imeni V.A. Steklova, Vol, 236, 503-508; Proc. Steklov Inst. Math., Moscow, Vol. 236, pp. 1-6, 2002.

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Honors & Awards

• 1955, Istituto Nazionale Alta Matematica Scholarship R. Severi Orlandini, Rome
• 1969, Accademia Delle Scienze Di Torina A. Bonavera Award
• 1991, Unione Matematica Italiana Plenary Lecture, Catania Meeting
• 1996, Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei A. Feltrinelli Award for Mathematics, Mechanics and Applications, Rome
• 1998, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation Research Award, Bamberg, Germany
• 1998, Featured Review, American Mathematical Society
• 2002, Gold Medal for Mathematics 2002 of the Accademia Nazionale Delle Scienze Dette Dei XL, Rome
• 2004, Marconi Lecture at the Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
• Member (Socio Nazionale) of the Accademia Nazionale Delle Scienze Detta Dei XL

Professional Experience & Activities

• Editorial Board for Journal for Analysis and its Applications
• Editorial Board for Journal or Convex Analysis
• Editorial Board for Journal of Functional Analysis and Approximation Theory
• Editorial Board for Journal of the Indian Society of Industrial & Applied Mathematics
• Editorial Board for Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization
• Editorial Board for Advances in Mathematical Sciences and Applications

Professional Societies/Memberships

• UMI (Italian Mathematical Union)
• EMS (European Mathematical Society)
• AMS (American Mathematical Society)
• EUROSCIENCE