I received my "laurea" degree summa cum laude in Computer Science from the University of Pisa in the Academic Year 1987-88. Since November 2001, I am Associate Professor in Numerical Analysis, within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine. Married, two children. My research interests are concerned with Numerical Analysis, mainly in the field of Numerical Linear Algebra with structured matrices.
 
Dario Fasino: About me
When I was born... • R. Varga's book Matrix Iterative Analysis and J. Von Neumann's Collected Works were in press; Henrici's Discrete Variable Methods in Ordinary Differential Equations appeared; and D. Knuth started The Art of Computer Programmming; • Henrici's paper on non-normal matrices appeared in the journal Numerische Matematik (No. 4, pp. 24--40); and the Kreiss' theorem on boundedness of matrix powers was published in BIT (No. 2, pp. 153--181); • D. Shanks and J. Wrench computed 100650 figures of π (Math. Comput. 16, 76--99); and D. Knuth computed 1271 figures of Euler's constant γ (Math. Comput. 16, 275--281); • The two main algorithms for computing all eigenvalues of a matrix were completed: the QR algorithm by J. Francis (Computer J. 4, 332--345), and the bisection-based algorithm for tridiagonal matrices, by J. Wilkinson (Numer. Math. 4, 362--367); • The discrepancy principle was proposed in an algorithmic form, for the solution of inverse problems with noisy data (D.L. Phillips, J. of the ACM , 84--97); • P. Lax and B. Wendroff derived stable numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws (Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 15, 363--371); ... it was 1962.
Ours is a time of continual movement
which often leads to restlessness,

with the risk of "doing for the sake of doing".

We must resist this temptation by trying "to be"
before trying "to do".



John Paul II, Novo millennio ineunte, 15 (2001).