Ornella Mattei
Short Bio
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.
Here is my CV.
Latest news
Committee Chair for the May 12 Celebration of Women in Mathematics event, hosted by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, May 12, 2024.
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;
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.
Past news
Invited Speaker to the The First CSU Mathematical Conference, California State University, Northridge, November 11--12, 2022, Northridge, California.
Invited Speaker to the MetaMat Webinar series, November 1, 2022, Imperial College, London (online).
Invited Participant to the Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries Annual Meeting, October 20-21, 2022, New York, USA.
Invited Speaker to the San Jose State University Department Colloquium, October 12, 2022.
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 the journal of Communications of Pure and Applied Mathematics.
Invited Speaker to the 2022 International Workshop on Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures, September 29 - October 1, 2022, Cetara, Italy.
Invited Speaker to the Minisymposium on Mechanical metamaterials, 19th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Austin, Texas, June 19-24, 2022.
Invited Speaker to the Workshop on Herglotz-Nevanlinna functions and their applications to dispersive systems and composite materials, May 23-27, 2022, CIRM, Marseille, France.
Committee Chair for the May 12 Celebration of Women in Mathematics event, hosted by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, May 12, 2022.
Invited Speaker to the Sonoma State University M*A*T*H Colloquium, February 9, 2022.
Invited Speaker to the minisymposium Advances in theory and applications of composite materials to be held at the SIAM TX/LA Conference on November 5-7, 2021 in South Padre Island, Texas.
Organizer (together with Hélène Barcelo (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Hajer Bahouri (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)), Mihaela Ifrim (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Julia Plavnik (Indiana University)) of the May 12 Celebration of Women in Mathematics event, hosted by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, May 12, 2021.
Our article Explicit analytic solution for the plane elastostatic problem with a rigid inclusion of arbitrary shape subject to arbitrary far-field loadings, by myself and Mikyoung Lim was published in the Journal of Elasticity.
Minisymposium organizer (together with Aaron Welters, Robert Viator and Christian Kern), 2020 SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, May 24-29, 2021, Bilbao, Spain. Minisymposium: Frontiers in nonreciprocity, metamaterials, and non-symmetric effective tensors. (online event)
Invited Speaker to the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Minisymposium: Soft materials: patterns, instabilities, and controlled deformations, May 24-29, 2021, Bilbao, Spain. (online event)
Invited Speaker to the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Minisymposium: Variational Models: Theory, Computations, and Applications to Materials, May 24-29, 2021, Bilbao, Spain. (online event)
Our article Guiding Stress with Cable Networks and the Spider Web Problem, by myself, Guy Bouchitté, Graeme W. Milton, and Pierre Seppecher, has just been published in the 2020 October issue of SIAM News!
Recipient of the NSF award DMS-2008105 for the project RUI: Time-dependent composites and inverse problems, Principal Investigator, $165,000, August 2020- July 2023 (extended toJuly 2024).
Now avaliable in its entirety in a no-print version here is the book Extending the Theory of Composites to Other Areas of Science, edited by Graeme W. Milton, with four chapters coauthored with Maxence Cassier, Moti Milgrom, Aaron Welters, and myself. The book was kindly reviewed by Yury Grabovski in SIAM Book Review and by Pradeep Sharma in Imechanica and in the Journal of Applied Mechanics. To support low cost publication of research books, if you like the book please think about or ask your librarian to purchase a hardback copy. Only $80! Available here: Extending the Theory of Composites to Other Areas of Science.
Recipient (together with the undergraduate students Diana Madrigal and Kenny Kong) of the 2020 PUMP (Preparing Undergraduates through Mentoring towards Phds) grant. Diana and Kenny will receive a $3000 stipend each to work on the project "Wave propagation in dynamic materials" during the 2020/2021 academic year.