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Plenary Speakers
Geometry (with Brass and Moser) and Combinatorial Geometry (with
Agarwal) were translated into Japanese, Russian, and Chinese. He is co-
editor-in-chief of Discrete & Computational Geometry and serves on
the editorial boards of ten other professional journals. For his scientific
achievements, he has received several prizes, including the Lester R. Ford
Award from the Mathematical Association of America (1990), and the Rényi
Prize and the Academy Award from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(1993, 1998). He was elected ACM Fellow (2011), member of Academia
Europeae (2014), and AMS Fellow (2015). He was an invited speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul (2014).
Alfio Quarteroni
Polytechnic University of Milan
Biosketch
Alfio Quarteroni is Professor of Numerical Analysis
and Director of MOX at the Politecnico of Milan
(Italy). Formerly, he was Director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific
Computing at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Lausanne
(Switzerland), from 1998 until the end of 2017. He is the founder (and first
director) of MOX at Politecnico of Milan (2002) and MATHICSE at EPFL,
Lausanne (2010). He is co-founder (and President) of MOXOFF, a spin-off
company at Politecnico of Milan (2010). He is the author of 25 books, editor
of 9 books, author of more than 300 papers published in international
scientific journals and conference proceedings, a member of the editorial
board of 25 international journals and editor-in-chief of two book series
published by Springer. He has been an invited or plenary speaker in more
than 300 international conferences and academic departments; in particular
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Geometry (with Brass and Moser) and Combinatorial Geometry (with
Agarwal) were translated into Japanese, Russian, and Chinese. He is co-
editor-in-chief of Discrete & Computational Geometry and serves on
the editorial boards of ten other professional journals. For his scientific
achievements, he has received several prizes, including the Lester R. Ford
Award from the Mathematical Association of America (1990), and the Rényi
Prize and the Academy Award from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(1993, 1998). He was elected ACM Fellow (2011), member of Academia
Europeae (2014), and AMS Fellow (2015). He was an invited speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul (2014).
Alfio Quarteroni
Polytechnic University of Milan
Biosketch
Alfio Quarteroni is Professor of Numerical Analysis
and Director of MOX at the Politecnico of Milan
(Italy). Formerly, he was Director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific
Computing at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Lausanne
(Switzerland), from 1998 until the end of 2017. He is the founder (and first
director) of MOX at Politecnico of Milan (2002) and MATHICSE at EPFL,
Lausanne (2010). He is co-founder (and President) of MOXOFF, a spin-off
company at Politecnico of Milan (2010). He is the author of 25 books, editor
of 9 books, author of more than 300 papers published in international
scientific journals and conference proceedings, a member of the editorial
board of 25 international journals and editor-in-chief of two book series
published by Springer. He has been an invited or plenary speaker in more
than 300 international conferences and academic departments; in particular
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