Alessandro Calamai - Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

• Born in Florence on July 28, 1976.
• Address: via delle Panche 9, Florence (Italy).
• Married with Chiara.
• Nationality: Italian.

Education

• 1995: High School Diploma (Maturità scientifica).
• 2001: Degree in Mathematics (Laurea) University of Florence, Italy.
  Title of the Thesis: "Topological methods in Boundary Value Problems for Ordinary Differential Equations (Metodi topologici nei problemi ai limiti per equazioni differenziali ordinarie")
  Advisor: Prof. Massimo Furi.
• 2002 - 2005: PhD student in Mathematics Department of Mathematics, University of Florence, Italy.
• 2005: PhD in Mathematics University of Florence, Italy.
  Title of the Thesis: "A degree theory for a class of noncompact perturbations of Fredholm maps"
  Supervisor: Prof. Massimo Furi.

Present Position

• 2005 - now: Post-Doc Position (Assegnista di Ricerca) Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
  Supervisor: Prof. Piero Montecchiari.

Research Interests

• Topological and variational methods in nonlinear analysis.
• Topological degree theory. Fixed point index theory. Bifurcation theory.
• Ordinary differential equations and delay differential equations on manifolds. Boundary value problems on unbounded intervals.

Teaching Activity

• 2004/05: Analysis II (Prof. L. Poggiolini), Engineering Faculty, University of Florence.
• 2004/05: Dynamical Systems (Rational Mechanics) (Prof. R. Ricci) Mathematics Faculty, University of Florence.
• 2005/06: Teacher of Preliminary Course in Mathematics, Engineering Faculty, University of Florence.
• 2005/06: Institutions of Mathematics (Prof. P. Montecchiari), Biology Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
  
• 2006/07: Institutions of Mathematics (Prof. P. Montecchiari), Biology Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
  
• 2006/07: Analysis I (Prof. C. Marcelli), Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
  
• 2006/07: Analysis II (Prof. F. Papalini), Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
  
• 2007/08: Teacher of Analysis III, Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
  
• 2007/08: Analysis II (Prof. F. Papalini), Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
  
• 2007/08: Analysis II (Prof. F. Battelli), Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
  
• 2008/09: Teacher of Mathematical Methods for Ingeneering, Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
  
• 2008/09: Analysis II (Prof. F. Alessio), Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
  
• 2008/09: Collaboration to a PhD Course in Global Analysis (Prof. M. Spadini), PhD in Mathematics, University of Florence.
  
• 2009/10: Teacher of Mathematical Methods for Ingeneering, Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
  

Visiting Positions

• March- April 2004: Visiting at the Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic). Invited by Prof. Z. Dosla.
• April 2008: Visiting at the Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic). Invited by Prof. Z. Dosla.
• February 2009: Visiting at the University of Wurzburg (Germany). Invited by Prof. J. Appell.

Talks

• "On existence and uniqueness of solutions for ordinary differential equations with nonlinear boundary conditions" .
  Brno (Czech Republic), March 29, 2004.
• "The invariance of domain theorem for compact perturbations of nonlinear Fredholm maps of index zero"
  in "Conference on fixed point theory and its applications". Montreal (Canada), August 18, 2004.
• "On existence and uniqueness of solutions for ordinary differential equations with nonlinear boundary conditions".
  Ancona, September 4, 2004.
• "A degree theory for a class of perturbed Fredholm maps".
  Firenze, March 16, 2006.
• "Global branches of periodic solutions for forced delay differential equations on compact manifolds".
  Levico Terme, October 4, 2006.
• "Delay differential equations on manifolds and applications to motion problems for forced constrained systems"
  Firenze, June 14, 2007.
• "Delay differential equations on manifolds and applications to motion problems for forced constrained systems"
  in the "Joint International Meeting UMI-DMV". Perugia, June 20, 2007.
• "Delay differential equations on manifolds and applications to motion problems for forced constrained systems"
  in the conference "EQUADIFF 07". Vienna, August 8, 2007.
• "Recent trends in nonlinear spectral teory"
  in the conference "Congresso UMI". Bari, September 24, 2007.
• "A general approach for front-propagation in functional reaction-diffusion equations",
  Modena, November 29, 2007.
• "Bifurcation results for delay differential equations on manifolds and applications",
  Firenze, April 3, 2008.
• "Front-propagation in non-local reaction-diffusion equations",
  Brno (Czech Republic), April 21, 2008.
• "Front-propagation in non-local reaction-diffusion equations",
  Prague, April 25, 2008.
• "Front-propagation in non-local reaction-diffusion equations",
  in the "AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations". Arlington, Texas (USA), May 19, 2008.
• "Degree theory for a class of perturbed Fredholm maps: properties and applications",
  in the conference "FAMA'08". Amantea (Cosenza), June 4, 2008.
• "Front-propagation in non-local reaction-diffusion equations",
  in the "AIMS Conference on Boundary Value Problems". Santiago de Compostela (Spain), September 18, 2008.
• "An introduction to spectral theory for nonlinear operators",
  Wurzburg (Germany), February 4, 2009.
• "Continuation results for delay differential equations on manifolds and applications",
  Pau (France), May 18, 2009.
• "Continuation results for retarded functional differential equations on manifolds and applications to the spherical pendulum",
  Ancona, July 6, 2009.
• "Continuation results for forced oscillations of constrained motion problems with infinite delay",
  in the conference "EQUADIFF 12". Brno (Czech Republic), July 21, 2009.
• "Continuation results for forced oscillations of constrained motion problems with infinite delay and applications to the retarded spherical pendulum",
  Messina, April 14, 2010.
• "Branches of harmonic solutions for a class of periodic differential-algebraic equations",
  Dresden (Germany), May 26, 2010.
• "Branches of harmonic solutions for a class of periodic differential-algebraic equations",
  Glasgow (UK), June 2, 2010.

Other

• Reviewer for "Mathematical Reviews".

Publications