Alessandra Celletti (born 12 February 1962) is an Italian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

. She earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1984 at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and a PhD in 1989 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (

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) under the supervision of

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and Jörg Waldvogel. Her research activity concerns dynamical systems, Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser (KAM) theory, and

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. She is a founding member of the Italian Society of Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics, which she chaired from 2001 to 2013. Since 1993 she has coordinated the international CELMEC meetings. She is full professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Since 2010 she has been an honorary "Celestial Mechanics Institute" member. Since 2016 she has been editor-in-chief of the journal '' Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy''. In 2012 she was an invited speaker at the 6th

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. In 2015 she was elected vice-President and in 2018 became President of the Scientific Committee in Celestial Mechanics of the

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. Since 2012 she has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Women in Mathematics (EMS/EWM). Since 2017 she has chaired the Women in Mathematics Committee of the

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. Since April 2020 she is member of the Governing Board and Vice-President of “ANVUR - Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes”. In 2007, her book ''Ordine e caos nel sistema solare'' in collaboration with Ettore Perozzi was a finalist for the Galileo Popular Science Prize. The

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2005 DJ1 has been named in her honour ( 117539 Celletti).

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References

*''The Waltz of the Planets'', Praxis-Springer Verlag, 2007, with Ettore Perozzi *''Ordine e Caos nel Sistema Solare'', Utet, 2007, with Ettore Perozzi *''Pianeti per caso'', Utet, 2012, with Ettore Perozzi *''Stability and Chaos in Celestial Mechanics'', Springer-Praxis, 2010

External links

Alessandra Celletti Department of Mathematics University of Rome Tor VergataSocietà Italiana di Meccanica Celeste e AstrodinamicaCELMEC meetingsStability problems in Celestial Mechanics
1999, su ''harvard.edu'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Celletti, Alessandra 1962 births Living people 20th-century Italian mathematicians 21st-century Italian mathematicians University of Rome Tor Vergata alumni ETH Zurich alumni Academic staff of the University of Rome Tor Vergata 20th-century women mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians Academic journal editors