Curriculum Vitae of Francesca Maggioni - Matematica e Applicazioni

Education
• (Dec. 4 2006) Ph.D. in Mathematics at University of Milano-Bicocca (I). Title of the
thesis: Kinematics of elastic filaments and magnetic relaxation of flux tubes. Supervisor:
Professor Renzo L. Ricca.
• (Sept. 18 2003) Degree in Mathematics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Brescia
(I), mark: 110/110 e lode. Title of the thesis: Relazioni fra K-loop e strutture di riflessione
con l’applicazione al modello di Poicaré di piano iperbolico. Advisor: Prof. Silvia Pianta.
Awards and Merits
• Merit Scholarship as one of the two best students of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics
and Natural Sciences of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Brescia, for the academic
years 2000/2001 and 2001/2002.
• Ph.D. Scholarship in the years 2003-2006, Department of Mathematics and Applications
of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
• Poster entitled Modeling filament kinematics for proteic coding and viral spooling, selected
as one of the three best posters for an oral presentation during the “Conference on Knots
and other Entanglements in Biopolymers: Topological and Geometrical Aspects of DNA,
RNA and Protein Structures”, Trieste, (Sept. 15−20 2008) (I).
• Grant from the Italian group of mathematical physics “Progetto Giovani GNFM 2009”:
“Energy of knotted DNA filaments”.
• Selection of the paper: Velocity, energy and helicity of vortex knots and unknots by Maggioni,
Alamri, Barenghi and Ricca, for the Sepetember 2010 issue of Virtual Journal of
Atomic Quantum Fluids; Section: Topological excitations of quantum fluids.
• Scientific Research Award “5 per 1000” for scientific merits in the years 2008−2010 as researcher
of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science and Application
of the University of Bergamo (I).
• Second Place Winner: Interactive Poster Session, “INFORMS Conference” 13–16 Nov.
2011 Charlotte, North Carolina (USA).
• Selected as a semi-finalist for the INFORMS Interactive Poster Session, “INFORMS Conference”
14-17 Oct. 2012 Phoenix, Arizona (USA).
Research Interests
My research interests regard the following areas of investigation:
• Stochastic Optimization with applications to logistics, transportation, facility location,
mobile ad hoc netwoks and energy markets. Bounds in multistage stochastic programming
(evaluation of the quality of expected value solution and value of information measures).
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