Geometric Challenges in Isogeometric Analysis

Carla Manni is a Full Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Florence in 1990. Her research interest is primarily in spline functions and their applications, constrained interpolation and approximation, computer aided geometric design and isogeometric analysis. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed research publications.

Hendrik Speleers received his Ph.D. in Engineering (Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics) from the University of Leuven, Belgium in 2008. He is currently an Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. His main research interest is in the construction, analysis, and application of multivariate splines. He is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific papers.