Ivonne Sgura
Professor
Department of Physics
University of Salento
Italy
Biography
Ivonne Sgura is Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Salento, Lecce (Italy) since November 2010. She got her PhD in Mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1996. Her research activity in the years 1996-1999 was carried out at the Institute for Research of Applied Mathematics (I.R.M.A.) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Bari, where she spent more than three years until January 2000. In the years 2000-2010 she was Senior Lecturer of Numerical Analysis in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Salento, Lecce. Her current main research activity concerns innovative and accurate numerical methods for the solution of differential equations and related applications. Further interests are connected to the study of mathematical models, computational techniques and numerical issues for - nonlinear elasticity (deformations of rubber-like and fiber-reinforced materials, approximation of singular solutions for ODE-BVP); - electrochemistry (fuel cell degradation, metal growth and pattern formation, traveling wave approximation); - the DNA molecule (approximation of compact solutions for the opening dynamics, ill-conditioning in data fitting by worm-like-chain interpolation formulae); - inverse problems in linear algebra (conservative and gradient flow methods for matrix completion and structured eigenvalue problems).
Research Interest
COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS
