Irene Fonseca

**Irene Maria Quintanilha Coelho da Fonseca**  ye una matemática portuguesa-d'Estaos Xuníos, especializándose nel área de la matemática aplicada, y desenvuelve actividaes académiques nel Mellon College of Science, de la Universidá Carnegie Mellon (acrónimu n'inglés CMU), onde ye direutora del Centru d'Analís Nolineal.

## Carrera profesional
Fonseca ye orixinaria de Lisboa, Portugal, y realizó los sos estudios universitarios na Universidá de Lisboa. En 1985, llogró'l so Ph.D. pola Universidá de Minnesota, so la supervisión doctoral de David Kinderlehrer, que más tarde siguió al so estudiante a la Universidá Carnegie Mellon (CMU). Foi contratada pola Facultá de la Universidá Carnegie Mellon, depués d'estudios postdoctorales en París, Francia.

## Delles publicaciones

### Coautorías de llibros
* 2010. *Modern Methods in the Calculus of Variations: L<sup>P</sup> Spaces*. Con G. Leoni. Edición reimpresa de Springer, 600 pp. ISBN 1441922601, ISBN 9781441922601

* 2002. *On the Total Variation of the Jacobian*. Dipartimento di Matematica "Ulisse Dini", Università degli Studi di Firenze. Research report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematical Sci. Center for Nonlinear Analysis) Con Nicola Fusco, Paolo Marcellini. Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematical Sci. Center for Nonlinear Analysis, 79 pp.

* 2002. *A-quasiconvexity: Weak-star Convergence and the Gap*. Res. report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematical Sci. Center for Nonlinear Analysis) Con Giovanni Leoni, Stefan Müller. Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematical Sci. Center for Nonlinear Analysis, 33 pp.

* 2000. *A Note on Meyers' Theorem in W[superscript K,1]*. Res. report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematical Sci. Center for Nonlinear Analysis) Con Giovanni Leoni, Roberto Paroni. Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematical Sci. Center for Nonlinear Analysis, 13 pp.

* 2000. *Relaxation Results in Micromagnetics*. Res. report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematical Sci. Center for Nonlinear Analysis) Con Giovanni Leoni. Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematical Sci. Center for Nonlinear Analysis, 22 pp.

* 1999. *3D-2D Asymptotic Analysis for Inhomogeneous Thin Films*. Res. report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematical Sci. Center for Nonlinear Analysis) Con Andrea Braides, Gilles Francfort. Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematical Sci. Center for Nonlinear Analysis, 27 pp.

* 1998. *On Lower Semicontinuity and Relaxation*. Res. report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematical Sci. Center for Nonlinear Analysis) Con Giovanni Leoni. Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematical Sci. [Center for Nonlinear Analysis, 36 pp.

* 1995. *Degree Theory in Analysis and Applications*. Con W. Gangbo. Edición ilustrada, reimpresa de Oxford Univ. Press, 211 pp. ISBN 0198511965, ISBN 9780198511960 en llinia

* 1995. *Variational Techniques for Problems in Materials Sciences*. Res. report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematics. Center for Nonlinear Analysis) Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematics [Center for Nonlinear Analysis, 18 pp.

* 1994. *Gamma -convergence, Minimizing Movements and Generalized Mean Curvature Evolution*. Res. report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematics. Center for Nonlinear Analysis) Con Markos Katsoulakis. Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematics [Center for Nonlinear Analysis, 54 pp.

* 1994. *Relaxation of Multiple Integrals in Subcritical Sobolev Spaces*. Res. report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematics. Center for Nonlinear Analysis) Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematics [Center for Nonlinear Analysis, 25 pp.

* 1991. *Quasiconvex Integrands and Lower Semicontinuity in L1*. Vol. 191 de Preprint: Sonderforschungsbereich Nichtlineare Partielle Differentialgleichungen. Vols. 91-135 de Research report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematics) Con Stefan Müller. Editor Univ, 24 pp.

* 1991. *On a Class of Invariant Functionals*. Res. report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematics. Center for Nonlinear Analysis) Con Gareth Parry. Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematics [Center for Nonlinear Analysis, 20 pp.

* 1990. *An Uniqueness Proof for the Wulff Theorem*. Vol. 90 de Res. report (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematics. Center for Nonlinear Analysis) Con Stefan Müller. Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematics [Center for Nonlinear Analysis, 12 pp.

* 1990. *The Wulff Theorem Revisited*. En: Res. report 90 (79 ) (Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. of Mathematics) Editor Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Mathematics, 38 pp.

## Honores
En 2011, Fonseca foi escoyida presidenta de la ''Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Sociedá de Matemática Aplicada ya Industrial)'', y en 2012 empezó'l periodu como presidenta electa d'esa Sociedá, una asociación profesional internacional de matemáticos aplicaos, con un mandatu de dos años como presidenta.

### Gallardones
Fonseca foi honrada col títulu de dama de la Orde de Santiago de la Espada.
En 2009, Fonseca foi electa miembru de SIAM *"poles sos contribuciones a les ecuaciones derivaes parciales non lliniales y el cálculu de variaciones"*.

## Personal
Fonseca ta casada col investigador biólogu celular Gerald Schatten.

## Fuentes

## Referencies

## Enllaces esternos
* Control d'autoría: VIAF= el so allugamientu 24842139
* Irene Fonseca. FLAD and the Portuguese Scientists in America
* Carnegie Mellon Mathematics Professor Elected President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics