Francesca Bucci is Associate Professor in Mathematical Analysis at the Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica of the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy  

General information contained in the web site of the Ateneo di Firenze (“Scheda personale”, in Italian for the most part)

   Academic profile and professional activities:

•   Education and professional history
•   Research interests
•   Publications
•   Meetings/Workshops/Minisymposia (forthcoming and most recent ones):
  • (forthcoming) Invited Speaker at the XXI Congresso dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, Special Session Problemi diretti e inversi per equazioni di evoluzione (organized by Giuseppe Floridia (Università di Napoli Federico II) and Silvia Romanelli (Università degli Studi di Bari)), Pavia, September 2-7, 2019;

  • (forthcoming) Invited Speaker at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2019), Minisymposium Nonlinear acoustics: analytical and numerical aspects (organized by Barbara Kaltenbacher (University of Klagenfurt, AT) and Mechthild Thalhammer (University of Innsbruck, AT)), Valencia, July 15-19, 2019;

  • (most recent one) Invited Speaker at the Workshop Analysis, Control and Inverse Problems for PDEs (organized by Giuseppe Floridia (Università di Napoli Federico II), Roberto Guglielmi (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila), Cristina Pignotti (Università dell'Aquila)), within the French-German-Italian Laboratoire International Associé on Applied Analysis (LIA-COPDESC), Napoli, November 26-30, 2018;

  • Invited Speaker at the IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, Special Session Honoring the work of Igor Chueshov (organized by Irena Lasiecka (University of Memphis) and Justin Webster (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)), Essen (Germany), July 23-27, 2018;

  • Invited Speaker at SIMAI 2018 (bi-annual congress of the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics), Minisymposium Control and inverse problems for evolution equations (organized by Giuseppe Floridia (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Sapienza Università di Roma, July 2-6, 2018;

  • Invited Speaker at the Meeting New trends in control of evolution systems (organized by Roberto Guglielmi (GSSI, L'Aquila) and Piermarco Cannarsa (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)), Gran Sasso Science Institute L'Aquila, April 20-21, 2018;

  • Co-organizer – with Francesca Ceragioli, Giuseppe Calafiore, Fabio Fagnani, Luisa Mazzi (Politecnico di Torino), Giacomo Como (Politecnico di Torino and Lunds Universitet), Chiara Ravazzi (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IEIIT) – of the Conference Paths in Mathematical Control theory, a workshop on the occasion of Andrea Bacciotti's and Luciano Pandolfi's 70th birthdays, Politecnico di Torino, February 26-27, 2018;

  • Participant/member (of the Laboratoire International Associé COPDESC) at the pre-launch of the French-German-Italian LIA on Applied Analysis (organized by Yves Achdou, Nathalie Bergame (Université Paris Diderot), Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira (Université de Lorraine), Jean-Francois Babadjian (Université Paris Sud), Yannick Privat (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)), UPMC, Paris, December 4-6, 2017;

  • Invited Speaker at the Workshop Women in Control: New Trends in Infinite Dimensions (organized by Luz de Teresa (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Kirsten Morris (University of Waterloo, CA), Irena Lasiecka (University of Memphis, USA)), Banff Internatinal Research Station, Banff, Alberta (CA), July 16-21, 2017;

  • Invited Speaker at the Workshop “Partial Differential Equations and Applications” (organized by Angelo Favini (Università di Bologna), Genni Fragnelli (Università di Bari), Luca Lorenzi (Università di Parma)), Università di Bologna, May 22-26, 2017.

•   Teaching activity (Didattica, in Italian):
  • Current Academic Year (A.A. 2018/2019), in full detail

   Divertissement: if you believe your math is elegant and/or you are cool, then watch this

   Personal: a few of my (non-math) favourite things:

• the Italian cultural magazines Lo Straniero (closed with the end of 2016), gli asini, Internazionale; Minima & Moralia (on line); The Paris Review; different art forms (see, e.g., Artribune)
• the graphic novels by Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, David B., Igort, Adrian Tomine, Gipi, Guy Delisle, Daniel Clowes, Michel Rabagliati, Sammy Harkham, Rutu Modan, Gabriella Giandelli (see, for some of them, Coconino Press and Drawn and Quarterly);
• the movies by Mike Leigh, Patrice Chereaux, Aki Kaurismäki, Matteo Garrone, Céline Sciamma, Roberto Minervini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Alice Rohrwacher, …
• novels, essays, poetry (too long list of favourite authors)

  I am presently reading "Rinata. Diari e Taccuini 1947-1963", by Susan Sontag (Nottetempo) and "August is a wicked month", by Edna O'Brian (Faber & Faber)