Irene Fonseca

Irene Maria Quintanilha Coelho da Fonseca is a Portuguese-American applied mathematician, the Kavčić-Moura University Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, where she directs the Center for Nonlinear Analysis.[1]

Irene Fonseca

Professional career

Fonseca was born in Portugal, and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Lisbon.[2] She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1985, under the supervision of David Kinderlehrer, who later followed his student to CMU.[3] She joined the CMU faculty after postdoctoral studies in Paris, France.[2]

In 2011, Fonseca was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[2] She also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2014 and 2015. Beginning in 2023, she is Chair for SIAG on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (SIAG/MS), an activity group for SIAM.[4]

Books

Fonseca is the co-author of:

Awards and honors

Fonseca is a knight of the Order of Saint James of the Sword.[2] In 2009, Fonseca was elected as a fellow of SIAM "for contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations and the calculus of variations".[7] In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[8] She is also a former AMS Council member at large.[9] In 2022, she received the ISIMM prize.

References
  1. Irene Fonseca Named Kavčić-Moura Professor of Mathematics, CMU Mellon College of Science, February 20, 2018, retrieved 2021-09-09
  2. Wereschagin, Mike (December 1, 2011), "Newsmaker: Irene Fonseca", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, archived from the original on March 29, 2015.
  3. Irene Maria Quintanilha Coelho da Fonseca at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "SIAM Activity Groups Election Results". SIAM News. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  5. Review of Degree Theory in Analysis and Applications: J. V. A. Gonçalves (1996), MR1373430
  6. Review of Modern Methods in the Calculus of Variations: Erik J. Balder (2008), MR2341508
  7. SIAM Fellows list, retrieved 2013-01-21.
  8. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-21.
  9. "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
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