Susanna Terracini
{{short description|Italian mathematician}}
Susanna Terracini (born April 29, 1963){{r|cv}} is an Italian mathematician known for her research on chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems, including the n-body problem, reaction–diffusion systems, and the Schrödinger equation.{{r|ewm}}
Terracini was born in South London. She earned a laurea in 1986 in mathematics at the University of Turin, supervised by Fulvia Skof.{{r|cv}}
She completed her Ph.D. at the International School for Advanced Studies in 1990. Her dissertation, Periodic Solutions to Singular Newtonian Systems, was supervised by Ivar Ekeland and Sergio Solimini.{{r|cv|mgp}}
She was a researcher at Paris Dauphine University from 1988 to 1989, and became a faculty member at the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1990. In 2001 she became a full professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, and in 2012 she returned to Turin as a professor.{{r|cv}}
One of Terracini's papers on the n-body problem was selected for a featured review in Mathematical Reviews.{{r|ewm|chen}}
She was the winner of the 2002 Vinti Prize, a prize of the Italian Mathematical Union for young researchers in mathematical analysis. In 2007 she won the Bruno Finzi Prize of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.{{r|ewm}}
In 2020 she was awarded the Schauder Medal from the Juliusz P. Schauder Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.{{r|schm}}
References
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{{citation|first=Kuo-Chang|last=Chen|year=2005|journal=Mathematical Reviews|volume=155|issue=2|pages=305–362|department=Featured review|mr=2031430|title=On the existence of collisionless equivariant minimizers for the classical n-body problem|bibcode=2004InMat.155..305F|arxiv=math-ph/0302022|doi=10.1007/s00222-003-0322-7}}
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External links
- [https://sites.google.com/site/susannaterracini/ Home page]
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Category:Academic staff of the University of Milano-Bicocca
Category:Academic staff of the University of Turin
Category:21st-century Italian mathematicians
Category:20th-century women mathematicians