Nicola Guglielmi

Full Professor

Area: Numerical analysis

University of L'Aquila

e-mail guglielm(at)univaq.it

Tel. +39-0862-43-3136 - Fax +39-0862-43-3180




Curriculum vitae and publications CV

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Postal address
Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata 
Universita' degli Studi di L' Aquila
Via Vetoio - Loc. Coppito 

67010    L' AQUILA  - Italy




Where to find me (in 2009 I am on leave)


From January 15 to March 15 I will be at the Courant Institute (New York University)

From March 15 to April 15 I will be at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (McGill University, Montreal)

From April 20 to June 21 I will be at the Section de mathematiques (Universite de Geneve)

From June 22 to June 26 I will partecipate to the school ODEs with discontinuous right-hand side: theory and applications (Dobbiaco).

From July 5 to July 10 I will attend the conference Advanced Workshop on Trends and Developments in Linear Algebra (International Center of Theoretical Physics, Trieste).

From August 15 to December 15 I will join the School of Mathematics (Georgia Tech University, Atlanta) as visiting professor.

From September 7 to September 9 I will attend the conference Delay Differential Equations: from theory to applications (University of Bristol).

From September 14 to September 18 I will attend the conference 12th Seminar "NUMDIFF" on Numerical Solution of Differential and Differential-Algebraic Equations (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg).

From September 18 to September 30 I will be at the Courant Institute (New York University)


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Research Activity
Software
Teaching
Informations


Research Activity

Work areas

  1. Stability of numerical methods for delay differential equations.
  2. Computation of the joint spectral radius of a family of matrices.
  3. Regularization of forward backward parabolic partial differential equations.
  4. Stiff delay equations Scholarpedia introduction .

Main collaborations

Recent projects

National

Year
Project
Title
Coordinator
[P6]
2007
Internalizzazione  Systems with several preferred states: study of singular behavior due to lack of convexity (20000 Euro) Prof. G. Fusco (Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy)
[P5]
2006
MIUR/COFIN  Metodi numerici per equazioni differenziali funzionali Prof. M. Zennaro (Universita' di Trieste, Italy)
[P4]
2004
Intergruppo INdAM  Metodi numerici e software matematico per problemi di evoluzione Prof. M. Zennaro (Universita' di Trieste, Italy)
[P3]
2004 Intergruppo INDAM  Integrazione di Sistemi Complessi in biomedicina: modelli, simulazione, rappresentazione Prof. A. Quarteroni (Politecnico di Milano, Itay)
[P2]
2003 Nazionale GNCS  Problematiche di interfacciamento tra metodologie numeriche per equazioni differenziali ordinarie e equazioni alle derivate parziali Prof. M. Zennaro (Universita' di Trieste, Italy)
[P1]
2003 Intergruppo INdAM Metodi e modelli matematici nella dinamica di popolazione Prof. M. Iannelli (Universita' di Trento, Italy)


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Recent Publications and preprints

  1. N. Guglielmi, Fabian Wirth and M. Zennaro, Complex polytope extremality results for families of matrices , SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and Applications, 27(3) (2005), 721--743.
  2. N. Guglielmi, On the Newton iteration in the application of collocation methods to implicit delay equations, Applied Numerical Mathematics, 53(2--4) (2005), 281--297.
  3. N. Guglielmi and Ch. Lubich, Numerical periodic orbits of neutral delay differential equations, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 13(4) (2005), 1057--1067.
  4. N. Guglielmi and M. Zennaro, Polytope norms and related algorithms for the computation of the joint spectral radius , Proceedings della ``44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference 2005'' (Sevilla), pp 3007--3012.
  5. A. Bellen, N. Guglielmi and S. Maset, Numerical methods for delay models in biomathematics, in Integration of Complex Systems in Biomedicine, A. Quarteroni (editor), Springer Verlag (2006) in stampa.
  6. N. Guglielmi, Open issues in devising software for the numerical solution of implicit delay differential equations, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 185(2) (2006), 261--277.
  7. N. Guglielmi, Short proofs and a counterexample for analytical and numerical stability of delay equations with infinite memory, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 26(1) (2006), 60--77.
  8. N. Guglielmi and E. Hairer, Computing breaking points in implicit delay differential equations, Advances in Computational Mathematics, (in press, 2007).
  9. G. Bellettini, G. Fusco and N. Guglielmi, A concept of solution for forward-backward equations, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (DCDS-A), 16 (2006) 1--60.
  10. N. Guglielmi and M. Zennaro, Balanced complex polytopes and related vector and matrix norms, Journal of Convex Analysis, 14 (2007) 729--766.
  11. Y. Muroya, E. Ishiwata and N. Guglielmi, Global stability for nonlinear difference equations with variable coefficients, 334 (2007) 232--247.
  12. N. Guglielmi e M. Zennaro, An algorithm for finding extremal polytope norms of matrix families, Linear Algebra and its Applications, {in press, 2007}.
  13. N. Guglielmi and L. Hatvani, On small oscillations of dynamical systems with time-dependent kinetic and potential energy, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (DCDS-A), {in press, 2007}.
  14. A. Bellen e N. Guglielmi, Solving neutral delay differential equations with state-dependent delays, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, {in press, 2007}.
  15. J. De Luca, N. Guglielmi e A.Politi, Electromagnetic two-body problem: recurrent dynamics in presence of state-dependent delays, 2007.
  16. N. Guglielmi e M. Zennaro, Finding extremal complex polytope norms for families of real matrices,submitted to SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2008

    (the Matlab files for the computation of the complex polytope norms of the given Example may be downloaded here ).


Fortran Codes


Delay Differential Equations
For nonstiff problems
  • RETARD Extension of the code DOPRI5 to delay differential equations y'(t)=f(t,y(t),y(t-a),...)
  • DR_RETARD Driver for RETARD
For stiff problems, including differential-algebraic and neutral delay equations with constant or state-dependent (eventually vanishing) delay.
  • the tar file radar5-v2.1.tar contains a directory with the Fortran 90 code RADAR5, the necessary linear algebra routines, and subdirectories for the following eleven examples. For unfolding the directory use the command tar xvf radar5-v2.1.tar
  • ENZYME kinetics with an inhibitor molecule, dimension 4, one constant delay;
  • HAYASHI an almost singular state dependent neutral problem, dimension 2 as differential-algebraic problem, one vanishing delay;
  • HEPATITIS acute hepatitis B virus infection, dimension 10, 5 constant delays;
  • OREGONATOR chemical kinetics, dimension 2, one constant delay;
  • ROBERTSON chemical reaction with steady state solution, dimension 3, one constant delay, very large time interval (step sizes larger than the delay);
  • SDISC, non smooth artificial problem, dimension 1, 1 constant delay;
  • WALTMAN, threshold model for antibody production, dimension 6, 2 state-dependent delays tending to zero, discontinuities in the right-hand side of the equations;
  • PAUL, state-dependent artificial problem, various order discontinuities;
  • ELSNOR, problem with solution termination;
  • MODCEG, neutral problem with state dependent delays and termination
  • NEUTLOG, predator-pray neutral Gause-model.



Class Activities

Courses

  1. Calculus and first course of Mathematics, undergraduate. Program . (faculty of Biotechnologies) .
  2. Advanced numerical analysis (laurea magistralis in Mathematics) .
  3. Elements of biomathematics. (laurea in Biotechnologies) Programma .
  4. Laboratory of mathematics (laurea in Biotehcnologies) .

Some Links

  • NA-net (Numerical Analysts) home page NA-net
  • Gruppo Nazionale per il Calcolo Scientifico GNCS
  • Mathematical Review MathSciNet

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