Ornella Mattei
In August 2019 I joined the Department of Mathematics at San Francisco State University as an Assistant Professor. I received my PhD in Methods and Mathematical Models for Engineering from the University of Brescia, Italy, in 2016. Before moving to San Francisco, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, where my mentor was Graeme W. Milton. I have broad interests in the Mathematics of Materials Science, with special emphasis on electromagnetics and composites.
Email address: mattei@sfsu.edu
Mail address: San Francisco State University, office TH950, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco CA, 94132
Latest news
Invited speaker at the 35th International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications, Minisymposium: Herglotz Functions and Composite Materials, August 12-16, 2024, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK;
Recipient of the 2024 Petkovic family Teaching Excellence Award;
Minisymposium organizer (together with Kshiteej Deshmukh, University of Utah, and Aaron Welters, Florida Institute of Technology), and speaker at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Minisymposium: Emergent Properties in Metamaterials and Extreme Wave-phenomena: Analysis, Design, Modeling, May 19-23, 2024, Pittsburgh, USA;
Invited speaker at the 2024 SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Minisymposium: Applied linear algebra and computational issues in electromagnetics and composites, May 13 - 17, 2024, Paris, France;
Committee Chair for the May 12 Celebration of Women in Mathematics event, hosted by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Berkeley, May 10, 2024;
Invited speaker at the 2024 AMS Spring Western Sectional Meeting, Minisymposium: Partial Differential Equations of Quantum Physics, May 4-5 2024, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA;
Invited speaker at RAM3: Recent Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics of Materials, a young researchers' meeting, February 21-23, 2024, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy;
Selected participant for the 2024 PIC MATH program, sponsored by MAA and SIAM, and funded by the NSF Grant DMS-1722275.
Invited speaker at the 2024 Joint Mathematical Meetings, JMM 2024, Minisymposium: Mathematical modeling of complex materials systems, January 3-5, 2024, San Francisco, USA;
Invited speaker at the 2024 Joint Mathematical Meetings, JMM 2024, Minisymposium: Women, Art, and Mathematics: Mathematics in the Literary Arts and Pedagogy in Creative Settings, January 3-5, 2024, San Francisco, USA.
Past news
Invited participant to the Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries Annual Meeting, October 19-20, 2023, New York, USA.
Our paper Determining the volume fraction in 2-phase composites and bodies using time varying applied fields, by myself, Graeme W. Milton, and Mihai Putinar, is now published in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
Invited Speaker at the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Minisymposium: Waves in complex and multiscale media, August 20-25, 2023, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Minisymposium organizer (together with Kshiteej Deshmukh, University of Utah) at the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Minisymposium: Some recent advances on time-modulated metamaterials, August 20-25, 2023, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Our paper An extremal problem arising in the dynamics of two-phase materials that directly reveals information about the internal geometry, by myself, Graeme W. Milton, and Mihai Putinar, is now published in Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics.
Invited speaker at the VI AMMCS International Conference, Minisymposium: Recent Advances in the Theory and Applications of Wave Propagation, August 14-18, 2023, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Our paper On the effects of suitably designed space microstructures in the propagation of waves in time modulated composites, recently published in Applied Physics Letters was chosen as Editor's Pick. To find out more about it, read this Scilight.
Committee Chair for the May 12 Celebration of Women in Mathematics event, hosted by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, May 12, 2023.
Invited Speaker at the Workshop series on Waves in Time-Varying Media, May 3-5, 2023, New York, USA.
Recipient of the San Francisco State University ORSP Small Grant, January 2023 - May 2-2023, $14,000.
Our article Limit analysis of strut nets, by myself, Ada Amendola, Antonio Fortunato, Fernando Fraternali, Graeme W. Milton, and Pierre Seppecher, is now published in the Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids.
Our paper The obstacle problem in masonry structures and cable nets, by myself, Ada Amendola, Graeme W. Milton, and Pierre Seppecher, is now published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A.