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A short curriculum vitae

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Massimo Lanza de Cristoforis has received his PhD in Mathematics in 1987 under the guidance of Prof. Stuart S. Antman at the University of Maryland at College Park, USA and is now  Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Padova, Italy.

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Massimo Lanza de Cristoforis has been visiting  several Scientific Institutions in Belarus, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, United Kingdom, USA  and has participated several congresses.

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Since 1995 has been advisor for six `laurea'  theses (a laurea thesis is a Master level dissertation) and four PhD dissertations and is currently supervising one doctoral student and co-supervising three doctoral students.

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Massimo Lanza de Cristoforis is in charge of several international Agreements such as Erasmus and is currently in the Editorial Board of Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations, a Journal associated with ISAAC.

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Massimo Lanza de Cristoforis has been interested in integral and differential equations, in composition operators, in  spectral theory for differential operators of elliptic type, in complex variables in potential theory and harmonic analysis and has authored or co-authored a number of pubblications.

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A letter of intents:

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Personally, I believe a board member should pursue the aims of the Society and in particular promote ISAAC and ISAAC membership.

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At the moment ISAAC has members from a large number of countries of the world and I believe it can remain attractive to a large community  only if it remains an equal opportunity for all members regardless of the economical status of their country of origin.

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In particular, I believe all activities including the ISAAC congress should be organized with the clear purpose that at least the members of the Society should have a chance to participate regardless of the economical status of their country of origin.

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Also, I share the view that we should  promote excellence in Mathematics and make an effort to raise funds for the Society to be able to invite high quality scientists and give out awards on the basis of excellence in Mathematics. Once more however, I would stand for having the benefits of such effort shared by everybody, regardless of the economical status of their country of origin.

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A message for voters: I would accept to become Vice - President, but I believe there are a few senior members who should be elected first. In particular, I support the election of Prof. Victor I. Burenkov.

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