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I am a professor in Mathematics at Wilfrid Laurier University, where my research is supported by grants from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). I am author of more than 40 articles in peer reviewed journals, and of a book.
I received my BSc in Physics from the University of Pisa in 1999, and my PhD in Mathematics from University of Victoria in 2003.
Prior to joining Laurier, I was a visiting assistant professor at University of California, Irvine (2003-2006).
My research principally focuses on the Newtonian N-body problem and the N-vortex problem. These are problems of great importance in science and engineering. The former problem consists in the analysis of the motion of N point particles in a setting where the dynamics are dictated by gravitational law. The latter is an old problem in fluid mechanics and can be viewed as an N-body problem since, in an ideal fluid, one can study how vortices interact without reference to the background fluid.
More recently, I have also been studying mechanical problems where differential geometry, algebraic geometry and topology play an important role.
- NSERC Discovery grant (2012-2017).
- NSERC Discovery grant (2007-2012).
- Governor General's Gold Medal (2004).
I have research assistantships opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students interested in celestial mechanics, classical mechanics, geometric mechanics and more. I am also willing to supervise graduate students in the same areas.
Contact me for more information.
- Manuele Santoprete, Jürgen Scheurle, Sebastian Walcher. “Motion in a symmetric potential on the hyperbolic plane.” Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 67, 450-480, (2015).
- Marshall Hampton, Gareth E. Roberts, Manuele Santoprete. “ Relative equilibria in the Four-Vortex Problem with Two Pairs of Equal Vorticities.” Journal of Nonlinear Science, 24, 39-92,(2014).
- Shengda Hu, Manuele Santoprete. “Regularization of the Kepler problem on the sphere ”, Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 66, 760-782, (2014).
- Tsung-Lin Lee, Manuele Santoprete. “Central configurations of the five-body problem with equal masses”, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 104, 369-381, (2009).
- Ernesto Perez-Chavela, Manuele Santoprete, “Convex four-body central configurations with some equal masses.” Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 185, 481-494, (2007).
- My articles on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/a/santoprete_m_1
- My articles on researchgate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuele_Santoprete2/contributions
Contact Info:
Office location: LH3045
Languages spoken: English, Italian