Theme: Complex Actions

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Alfio Quarteroni

Alfio Quarteroni is professor of Mathematics, Director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Lausanne (Switzerland), since 1998. His group has carried out the mathematical simulation for the optimisation of performances of the Alinghi yacht, the winner of the past two editions (2003 and 2007) of the America’s Cup.<br/> <br/> <strong>Positions</strong><br/> <ul> <li>Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), since 1989.</li> <li>Scientific Director of MOX, Politecnico di Milano, since 2002 and Director of MATHICSE at EPFL, since 2010</li> <li>He is an internationally renown expert in the field of mathematical modeling and scientific computing</li> <li>He is author of 18 books (two of them translated in several languages), editor of 4 books</li> <li>Author of more than 200 papers published in international Scientific Journals and Conference Proceedings</li> <li>Invited speaker in more than 200 International Conferences and Academic Departments</li> <li>Member of the editorial board of 25 International Journals</li> <li>Editor in Chief of two book series published by Springer</li> </ul> <strong>Awards/Honors</strong><br/> <ul> <li>Member of the Lombard Academy of Science (Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere)</li> <li>Recipient of the Galileian Chair, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, in 2001</li> <li>Laurea Honoris Causa in Naval Engineering at University of Trieste, Italy, 2003</li> <li>Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (the Italian Academy of Sciences)</li> <li>Plenary lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2006, Madrid</li> <li>Fanfullino della Riconoscenza 2006, Città di Lodi.</li> <li>Premio Capo D'Orlando 2006</li> <li>Paul Harris Fellow, 2008</li> <li>Recipient of the ERC advanced grant “MATHCARD”, 2008</li> <li>SIAM Fellow (2009)</li> <li>SIAM Board of Trustees, member</li> <li>Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EAS)</li> </ul>

Andrea Poli

Andrea Poli is a biomedical and clinical engineer with many years of experience in health-care standards and interoperability rules, as well as in open source technologies. He started his career in the Bioengineering and ICT group of the University of Trieste, following the development of software solutions for medical image management. During those years he also got the position of contract professor in the same University for courses focused on standards and interoperability in healthcare. In 2004 he has been one of the promoter of the O3 Consortium Project, whose goal is to propose open source software solutions for the healthcare. In 2008 he co-founded o3 Enterprise, a spin-off company of the University of Trieste, which aims to offer professional services on o3 Consortium solutions and contributing to the project's further development. He is currently the CEO of o3 Enterprise and the technical director of the O3 Consortium Project.