Alessandra Celletti (mathematician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
About Alessandra Celletti (mathematician)
- Alessandra Celletti (born 12 February 1962) is an Italian mathematician.
- She earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1984 at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and a PhD in 1989 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) under the supervision of Jürgen Moser and Jörg Waldvogel.
- Her research activity concerns dynamical systems, Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser (KAM) theory, and celestial mechanics. She is a founding member of the Italian Society of Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics, which she chaired from 2001 to 2013.
- Since 1993 she has coordinated the international CELMEC meetings.
- She is full professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
- Since 2010 she has been an honorary member of the "Celestial Mechanics Institute".
- Since 2016 she is editor-in-chief of the journal "Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy".
- In 2012 she was an invited speaker at the 6th European Congress of Mathematics.
- In 2015 she was elected vice-President of the Scientific Committee in Celestial Mechanics of the International Astronomical Union.
- Since 2012 she has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Women in Mathematics (EMS/EWM) and since 2017 she has chaired the Women in Mathematics Committee of the European Mathematical Society. In 2007, her book Ordine e caos nel sistema solare in collaboration with Ettore Perozzi was a finalist for the Galileo Popular Science Prize. The asteroid 2005 DJ1 has been named in her honour (117539 Celletti).
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