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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH GIANPIETRO DEL PIERO November, 2018 - Birth: - Degree: - Present Address: - e-mail Address: - Present Position: Former Positions - Fellowship, Università di Pisa, June 1967 to October 1974; - Assistant Professor of Variational Methods, Università di Pisa, November 1974 to February 1976; - Professor of Strength of Materials, Istituto Universitario Statale di Architettura, Reggio Calabria, March 1976 to October 1979; - Professor of Strength of Materials, Università di Udine, November 1979 to October 1991; - Professor of Strength of Materials, Università di Ferrara, November 1991 to October 2010; - On leave at the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone", CNR, Rome, Nov. 2000 to Oct. 2001; - On leave at the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare "Beniamino Segre", Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Nov. 2001 to Oct. 2004; Visiting Positions - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA: April to June 1979, Nov. 1987 to Oct. 1988, Aug. 1990, Oct. 1991, Sept. 1992, Sept. 1993, Oct. 1994, Oct. 1995, Sept. 1996, Jan. 1998, Jan. 1999; Sept. to Oct. 2000; - Laboratòrio Nacionàl de Computação Cientìfica, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: July 1986; - Technion, Haifa, Israel: December 1980; - Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs, Tunis, Tunisia: Dec. 1983, May 1985, Apr. 1987, Feb. 1989, Apr. 1990, May 1991, May 1992, May 1993, Apr. 1994, May 1995, Apr. 1996, Apr. 1997, Apr. 1998, Apr. 1999, Apr. to June 2000, Apr. 2001; Apr. 2002, Apr. 2003, Feb. 2004, Dec. 2004, June 2005, March 2006, Feb. 2007, Jan. 2008, Feb. 2009, Feb. 2010; Mar. 2012; - Somali National University, Mogadiscio, Somalia: July to November, 1984; - Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania: June 1995; - The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA: Jan. 1998, Jan. 1999, Feb. 2000; - Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China, August 1998; - Institut Galilée, Université Paris XIII: April 2000, January 2001; 1 - Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil, Montpellier: March 2002; - Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, La Marsa, Tunisia: May 2004; - Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique, Marseille: Oct. to Nov. 2006, June to July 2009, Oct. 2010, June 2012; Memberships - the Reviewer Corps of Applied Mechanics Reviews, 1976 to 1987; - the Society for Natural Philosophy, 1978 to date; - the Editorial Board of Meccanica, 1981 to 1994; - the Scientific Council of CISM, 1984 to 2011; - the Reviewer Corps of Mathematical Reviews, 1986 to date; - the Internat. Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (ISIMM), 1999 to date; - the Board of Editors of Journal of Elasticity, 1999 to date; - the Advisory Board of Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems, 2010 to date; Honours - The Rational Modeling of Materials and Structures, an International Symposium in Honour of Gianpietro Del Piero on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Reggio Calabria, June 2005; - Honorary Professor of the University of Tunis-Al Manar, Hammamet, Tunisia, May 2006; - Symposium in Honor of Gianpietro Del Piero, in occasion of his retirement, Fondazione Tullio Levi-Civita, Sperlonga, September 2011; - Special Issues in Honor of Gianpietro Del Piero, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, vol. 25, 2-4, 2013; Coordinator of Meetings, Symposia, and Minisymposia - CTA Course Le costruzioni in acciaio: fasi progettuali ed evoluzione della normativa, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Udine, March-June 1980; - Euromech 140, CISM, Udine, May 1981; - Unilateral Problems in Structural Analysis, Cimolais (Pordenone), May 1982 (with F. MACERI); - Convegno di Studio sul Consolidamento delle Costruzioni, CISM, Udine, June 1982, and June 1983; - Unilateral Problems in Structural Analysis 2, Ravello, Sept. 1983 (with F. MACERI); - Convegno di Studio sul Calcolo Non Lineare delle Strutture in Cemento Armato, CISM, Udine, June 1984; - Unilateral Problems in Structural Analysis 3, Cimolais (Pordenone), June 1985 (with F. MACERI); - Convegno di Studio sul Calcolo Automatico delle Strutture in Cemento Armato, CISM, Udine, June 1985; - Post-Graduate Programme in Mechanical Sciences, CISM, Udine, Nov. 1985 to Oct. 1986, and Nov. 1986 to Oct. 1987; 2 - Manutenzione, Riparazione e Durabilità delle Strutture in Cemento Armato, CISM, Udine, June 1986; - Unilateral Problems in Structural Analysis 4, Capri, June 1989 (with F. MACERI); - Unilateral Problems in Structural Analysis 5, Ferrara, June 1997 (with F. MACERI); - Minisymposium Microstructures in Mechanics of Materials, VI Congresso Nazionale SIMAI, Chia, Sardinia, May 2002; - CISM Course Multiscale Modeling in Continuum Mechanics and Structured Deformations, CISM, Udine, July 2002 (with D.R. OWEN); - Unilateral Problems in Structural Analysis 6, Siracusa, June 2007 (with F. MACERI); - Minisymposium Advanced Computation of Structures and Engineering Works, 2nd Euro- Mediterranean Symposium on the Advances in Geomaterials and Structures, Hammamet, Tunisia, May 2008; - Minisymposium Microstructures, Micromechanics, and Structured Deformations, 3rd Canadian Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Toronto, Canada, June 2008; - Minisymposium Applications of Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics in Civil and in Materials Engineering, 3rd Euro-Mediterranean Symposium on the Advances in Geomaterials and Structures, Djerba, Tunisia, May 2010; - Unilateral Problems in Structural Analysis 7, Palmanova,Udine, June 2010 (with F. MACERI); - Euromech 548 Direct and variational methods for nonsmooth problems in mechanics, Amboise, France, June 2013 (with G. DE SAXCE’); Invited Lecturer to Meetings and Symposia - Italian-Polish Meeting on Finite Elasticity, Jablonna, Poland, July 1973; - Euromech 100, Pisa, May 1978; - 21st Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy, Pisa, May 1978; - NSF-CNR Symposium on Non-Linear Continuum Mechanics, Venezia, May 1978; - Seminario Fisico-Matematico, Università di Trieste, Oct. 1980; - Mathematics Workshop Seminar in Mathematical Physics, Cosenza, Oct. 1980; - Onde e Stabilità nei Mezzi Continui, Catania, Nov. 1981; - SECTAM XI, Huntsville, USA, Apr. 1982; - Problems in the Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Roma, May 1982; - International Symposium on Viscoplasticity, Zarzis, Tunisia, Dec.1982; - Plasticity Today, Udine, June 1983; - Lo Stato dell'Arte in Italia sulla Meccanica delle Murature, Roma, Oct. 1985; - 1st International Conference on Nonlinear Mechanics, Shanghai, China, Oct. 1985; - 17th Yugoslav Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Zadar, Yugoslavia, June 1986; - ITABRA 1986, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Aug.1986; - Euromech 217, Pilissentkereszt, Hungary, Oct.1986; - ISIMM Meeting Unilateral Problems in Mechanics, Roma, Apr.1987; - International Colloquium on Free Boundary Problems, Irsee, Germany, June 1987; 3 - Plasticity '89, Tsu, Japan, Aug.1989; - Variational Methods in Continuum Mechanics, 33 rd Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy, Pittsburgh, USA, Nov. 1989; - Meeting Calculus of Variations, Elasticity and Crystals, CIRM, Trento, Dec.1989; - Meeting Kontinuumsmechanik der Fester Körper, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Ober- wolfach, Germany, March 1990; - Plasticity '91, Grenoble, France, Aug.1991 - Models of Hysteresis, CIRM, Trento, Sept.1991; - Italian-Czechoslovak Colloquium on Applied Mathematics and Continuum Mechanics, Dobrichovice, Czechoslovakia, October 1991; - 22 nd Midwestern Mechanics Conference, Rolla, Missouri, Oct.1991; - Contact Mechanics, International Symposium, EPF, Lausanne, Oct. 1992; - Workshop Mathematical Problems in Viscoelasticity, Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Feb. 1993; - Meeting Mathematical problems in Viscoelastic Flows, Mathematisches Forschungs-institut Oberwolfach, Germany, May 1993; - International meeting Mechanical and Analytical Microstructures, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, July 1994; - 8th International Symposium Continuum Models and Discrete Systems, Varna, Bulgaria, June 1995; - 3rd International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM 95, Hamburg, Germany, July 1995; - INDAM Meeting Mathematical Problems in the Thermodynamics of Continuous Systems, Cortona, October 1996; - IUTAM Symposium Variations de domaines et frontières libres en mécanique des solides, Paris, April 1997; - Meeting Mathematics and Mechanics in Materials Science and Molecular Biology, Capri, June 1997; - Euromech-Mecamat Conference Mechanics of Materials with intrinsic length scale, Magdeburg, Germany, February 1998; - 4th National Congress SIMAI , Giardini Naxos, June 1998; - 9th International Symposium Continuum Models and Discrete Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1998; - Meeting Calculus of Variations, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, July 1998; - Inter-Institute Seminar Nonlinear Computational Mechanics, TU Budapest, November 1998; - Plasticity '99, Cancun, Mexico, Jan.1999; - Informal workshop on structured deformations, Center for nonlinear analysis, Carnegie Mellon University, January 1999; - Euromech 402, Seeheim, Germany, October 1999; - Seminar Omaggio a Edoardo Benvenuto, Genova, November 1999; - International meeting Nuovi progressi nella Fisica Matematica dall'eredità di Dario Graffi, Accademia delle Scienze, Bologna, May 2000; - Meeting Multiscale Problems in Science and Technology, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2000; - Conference on Recent Advances in Continuum Physics and Analysis, Rome, November 2000; 4 - INDAM Meeting Modelli Matematici e Problemi Analitici per Materiali Speciali, Cortona, June 2001; - Workshop Variational Methods for Discontinuous Structures,