RESEARCH AREAS

• Numerical Methods in CAGD (Computer Aided Geometric Design)
• Isogeometric Analysis
• Constrained Interpolation and approximation
• Subdivision schemes
• Splines

Recent/next Conferences

• Eighth Conference on "Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces", 28/6-3/7/2012, Oslo, Norway
• Isogeometric Analysis and Applications , 12-16/3/2012, Linz, Austria
• International Conference on Multivariate Approximation, 24-27/9/2011, Hagen ,Germania
• Subdivision and Refinability, 15-19/9/2011, Pontignano, Siena, Italy
• Conference on Geometry - Theory and Applications, 20-24/6/2011, Vorau, Austria,
• ApplMath11 , 13-17/6/2011 Trogir, Croatia
• Multivariate Approximation and Interpolation with Applications, 6-10/9/2010 Edinburgh, U.K,
• Non-Standard Numerical Methods for PDE's, 29/6-2/7/2010 Pavia, Italy
• Seventh International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, Avignon, Francia, 24-30/6/2010,
• New Frontiers in CAGD, May 17-21, 2010, Bertinoro, Italy,

International Conferences: invited talks

Guest Editor

· L. Gori, C. Manni , E. Santi, JOURNAL of COMPUTATIONAL and APPLIED MATHEMATHICS : 221 (2) (2008) special issue Recent Progress in Spline and Wavelet Approximation

· R.T. Farouki , B. Juttler, C. Manni CAGD (25) (2008): special issue PH Curves and Related Topics.

PUBLICATIONS (list of publications)

Selected Recent Publications

· C. MANNI, F. PELOSI, M.L. SAMPOLI: Isogeometric Analysis in advection--diffusion problems: tension splines approximation,

(2011) J. of Computational and Applied Mathematics, to appear.

· R. T. FAROUKI, C. MANNI, F. PELOSI, M.L. SAMPOLI: Design of C^2 Spatial Pythagorean-Hodograph Quintic Spline Curves by Control Polygons, (2011) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, to appear.

· R. T. FAROUKI, C. GIANNELLI, C. MANNI, A. SESTINI: Design of rational rotation-minimizing rigid body motions by Hermite interpolation, (2011) Mathematics of Computation, to appear.

· N. GUGLIELMI, C.MANNI, D. VITALE: Convergence analysis of C^2 Hermite interpolatory subdivision schemes by explicit

joint spectral radius formulas, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 434 (2011) 884--902

· C. MANNI, F. PELOSI, M.L. SAMPOLI: Generalized B-splines as a tool in Isogeometric Analysis, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 200 (2011) 867--881

· P. COSTANTINI, C. MANNI, F. PELOSI, M.L. SAMPOLI, Quasi-interpolation in Isogeometric Analysis Based on

Generalized B-splines, CAGD, 27 (2010) 656--668.

· P. COSTANTINI, P. KAKLIS, C. MANNI, Polynomial Cubic Splines with Tension Properties, CAGD, 27 (2010) 592-610.

· C. MANNI, M.-L. MAZURE: Shape Constraints and optimal bases for C^1 Hermite interpolatory subdivision schemes, (2010)

SIAM J. Num. Anal., 48 (2010) 1254--1280.(addendum)

· P. COSTANTINI, C. MANNI: Curve and Surface Construction Using Hermite Subdivision Schemes, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 233 (2010) 1660--1673.

· P. COSTANTINI, C. MANNI: A Geometric Approach for Hermite Subdivision, Numerische Mathematik, 115 (2010), 333--369.

· O. DAVYDOV, C. MANNI: A Tension Approach to Controlling the Shape of Cubic Spline Surfaces on FVS Triangulations, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 233 (2010) 1674--1684.

· R. T. FAROUKI, C. GIANNELLI, C. MANNI, A. SESTINI: Quintic space curves with rational rotation-minimizing frames,

CAGD, 26 (2009) 580–592.

· R. T. FAROUKI, C. GIANNELLI, C. MANNI, A. SESTINI: Identification of spatial PH quintic Hermite interpolants with near--optimal shape measures, CAGD 25 (2008), 274-297.

· I. CRAVERO, C. MANNI, M.L. SAMPOLI: Geometric Construction of Quintic Parametric B-splines, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 221 (2008), 355-366.

· T. LYCHE, C. MANNI , P. SABLONNIERE, Quasi-interpolation Projectors for Box Splines, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 221 (2008), 416-429.

· P. COSTANTINI, C. MANNI: On Constrained Nonlinear Hermite Subdivision, (2008) Constructive Approximation, 28 (2008), 291-331