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= Ettore Infante =

Early life
Ferdinando Infante was practicing medicine in the Belgian Congo, Africa after criticizing Mussolini and fascism at the University of Bologna. He was put on the blacklist and therefore unable to work in Italy. In 1923 he was offered a job by the Belgian government to work as the principle medical officer for the Eastern Belgian Congo. For every 30 months that he worked he would receive six months of vacation in which he would return to Italy. Upon one of his visits, he visited a friend in Rocca Malatina and met Cecilia Ferrari. They married on November 16, 1936 in Modena, Italy. Cecilia returned to the Belgian Congo with Ferdinando when he resumed his work.

Still living in the Congo, Cecilia became pregnant and Ferdinando sent her back to Italy where he believes the hygienic conditions to be safer. Ettore Ferrari Infante is born on August 20, 1938 in Modena, Italy. In 1939 Ferdinando was knighted by the Belgian Government as ‘Knight of the Order of Leopold' before he left the Eastern Belgian Congo for good to see his son for the first time.

When WW II erupted, Ferdinando offered to report to duty for the Belgians rather than his homeland, however was unable to leave or get work in Italy. He volunteered to work at a hospital in Persiceto, Italy, where the family got an apartment. Cecilia would often leave to accompany her Jewish mother-in-law on trips to evade the Nazis. With a busy father and an absent mother Ettore was sent to Rocca Malatina to live with his grandmother, or to a his great Uncle Virgilio Garuti's farm in Recovato. Ettore went to school in Persiceto infrequently between kindergarten and grade three.

Three years after WW II ended, Dr. Ferdinando Infante accepted a position as Director of the Leper Colony, in Maiquetia, Venezuela. The family had a house built which included a private doctor's office on one side. In Venezuela Ettore was known as Hector, the Spanish translation of his name which he picked up quickly and earned a placed in the highest achieving classes in high school. Much like his mother he disliked Venezuela and thought of it as "it was the land where nothing got done, the land of ‘mañana.’ the land where flowers had no fragrance, fruit had no flavor, women had no self-respect and men had no honor." (Ettore Infante)

Education
Ettore graduated high school at age 15 and was accepted at Columbia University in 1953. Before the school year began he spent the summer in New York to study English. One evening he was mugged in Morningside Heights, and wound up in the hospital with a broken nose. From then on his parents disapproved of New York, and as a result Ettore started over with his university career at the University of Texas in Austin in 1954.

Within eight years, Ettore received his PhD in Applied Mechanics as well as undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Aeronautical Engineering. While at the University, English speakers struggled to pronounce his name and was renamed Jim by one of his professors.

Fellowships and extracurriculars

 * 1) Elected as a member of the Student Assembly - the University of Texas in Austin representative to the National Student Association.
 * 2) Rifle team
 * 3) Southwestern Rocket Society
 * 4) Friar Society
 * 5) Ford Foundation Fellowship
 * 6) CNSR-NSF Senior Research Fellowship
 * 7) American Academy of Mechanics
 * 8) American Association for the Advancement of Science
 * 9) American Mathematical Society
 * 10) Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
 * 11) Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
 * 12) American Society of Mechanical Engineers
 * 13) Society of Natural Philosophy
 * 14) Phi Beta Kappa
 * 15) Tau Beta Pi
 * 16) Sigma Xi
 * 17) Sigma Gamma Tau

Carrer
In 1964, Ettore was hired as a Research Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics and Brown University. Five years latter he became an Associate Professor and created a course focusing on differential equations (AM 33-34 ). In 1972, Ettore was a professor and three years later was the Director of the Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems.

In 1979, Ettore left Brown and became Program Director of Applied Mathematics at the National Science Foundation, however he returned to Brown for one last year. In 1981 was employed once again by the National Science Foundation as a mender of the troubles with the Division of Mathematical and Computer Sciences and was soon made Director.

After three years at the National Science Foundation, Ettore moved to Minnesota. Starting as a Professor of Mathematics in 1884, slowly he built his way up to Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, and serving as Dean of the Institute of Technology and Provost of Minnesota’s Twin City Campus in between.

In 1997, Ettore left Minnesota and was employed as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University. Three years later he retired.

Employment

 * 1) September 1962 - June 1964; Assistant Professor of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
 * 2) June 1963 - August 1963; NSF Institute on Control Systems, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
 * 3) June 1964 - August 1964; Research Engineer, Humble Oil and Refining Company, Houston, Texas.
 * 4) July 1964 - June 1968; Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Provi­dence, Rhode Island.
 * 5) July 1968 - June 1972; Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Provi­dence, Rhode Island.
 * 6) September 1970 - June 1971; Distinguished Lecturer, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathemat­ics.
 * 7) March 1971 - May 1971; Distinguished Lecturer, Southwest Mechanics Lecture Series (Univ. of Texas, Texas A&M, University of Houston, Louisiana State University, Rice, Dallas)
 * 8) July 1972 - June 1984; Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence,Rhode Island.
 * 9) January 1972; California Distinguished Lecture Series on Applied Mathematics (Caltech, U.S.C., UCLA, UCSD, Berkeley).
 * 10) July 1972 - August 1973; Visiting Professor of Mathematics, CNRS Senior Researcher, University of Paris VI, Paris, France.
 * 11) September 1973 - August 1974; Associate Staff, Miriam Hospital of Brown Medical School; Technical Board of Rhode Island Health Services Research; Providence, Rhode Island.
 * 12) July 1975 - August 1979; Associate Director, then Director, Lefschetz Center for Dy­nami­cal Sys­tems, Divi­sion of Applied Mathematics, Brown Univer­sity, Provi­dence, Rhode Island.
 * 13) June 1978 - August 1978; Visiting Professor of Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute Rehovot, Israel.
 * 14) July 1979 - August 1980; Director, Applied Mathematics Program, Division of Mathematical and Comput­er Sciences, National Science Foundation,­ Washington, D.C.
 * 15) June 1983 - July 1984; Director, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation, Wash­ington, D.C.[3]
 * 16) July 1984 - June 1991; Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Institute of Technology (College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and of Engineering), Universi­ty of Minneso­ta, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 * 17) July 1991 - June 1995; Professor of Mathematics, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of Twin Cities Campus, University of Minnesota (evolved to next position through provost reorganization) Minneapo­­lis, Minne­sota.
 * 18) June 1996 - July 1998; Consultant, Convener of Panel of International Assessment of the U.S. Mathe­mati­cal Sciences, National Science Foundation.
 * 19) July 1995 - June 1996; Professor of Mathematics and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (Chief Academic Officer), University of Minnesota, Minneapo­lis, Minne­sota.
 * 20) July 1996 - July 1997; Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown Univer­sity, Provi­dence, Rhode Island.
 * 21) August 1997 - June 2000; Dean of the College of Arts and Science and Professor of Mathematics, Vanderbilt Universi­ty, Nashville, Tennessee.
 * 22) July 2000; Dean of the College of Arts and Science and Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, Vanderbilt University
 * 23) July 2000 to present; Consultant
 * 24) January 2014 to present; Adjunct Faculty of Mathematics, Florida Keys Community College, Key West, Florida

Commissions, boards, national committees and more

 * 1) 2013-Present; Chairman of the Board of Directors for Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Arkville, New York.
 * 2) 2004-2005; President of the Board of Directors, COMAP, Waltham, Massachusetts.
 * 3) 2004-2013; Member of the Board of Directors, Hastings Landing Homeowners Association, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
 * 4) 2004-2009; Member of the Board of Directors, Roxmor Realty Corporation, Phoenicia, New York.
 * 5) 2002-Present; Member of the Executive Committee of the Board and Secretary-Treasurer of The Friends of the Catskill Interpretive Center, Phoenicia, New York.
 * 6) 1998-2000; Member of Board of Direc­tors of Oak Ridge Associated Universities (Vice-Chair, 1998-99).
 * 7) 1998; Member, Board of Visitors, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation.
 * 8) 1997-Present; Consultant, Midwestern Higher Education Commission,Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 * 9) 1996-2004; Member and Treasurer, Board of Directors, COMAP, Waltham, Massa­chu­setts.
 * 10) 1994-2001; Member, Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago for Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois.
 * 11) 1994-1997; Commissioner for the State of Minnesota, Midwestern Higher Educa­tion Commission, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 * 12) 1993-1998; Member, American Mathematical Society Task Force on Excellence.
 * 13) 1992-1996; Executive Committee, Council on Academic Affairs of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Washington, D.C.; Chair, Committee on Graduate Education and Research; Co-Chair, 1996 Summer Program Committee.
 * 14) 1992-1995; Member, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation.
 * 15) 1991-Present; Associate Editor, Journal of Computers and Mathematics.
 * 16) 1990-Present; Member, Advisory Board of Trustees, International Institute for Effec­tive Communications Technology, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 * 17) 1988-2001; Member, Science and Advisory Committee to the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois.
 * 18) 1985-1996; Member, Board of Directors, North Star Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 * 19) 1980-1993; Member of the Selection Committee, Society of Natural Philosophy.
 * 20) 1989-1996; Member, Board of Directors, The Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota.
 * 21) 1986-1994; Member, Board of Directors, Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 * 22) 1991-1992;  Member, Board of Directors, Minnesota Technology, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 * 23) 1985-1991; Member, Board of Directors, and Chair, Strategic Planning Committee, Twin Cities Public Television, St. Paul, Minnesota.
 * 24) 1986-1991; Member, Governor's Committee on Science and Technology Research and Development, State of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota.
 * 25) 1985-Present; Member of Science Policy Committee, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
 * 26) 1985-1991; Member, Board of Directors, Minnesota Technology Corporation, Minne­apolis, Minnesota.
 * 27) 1985-1991; Member, Board of Trustees, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathemat­ics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 * 28) 1985-1991; Member, Board of Directors, Minnesota Wellspring, St. Paul, Minnesota.
 * 29) 1985-1991; Member, Board of Directors, SIMS, New York, New York.
 * 30) 1988-1991; Member, Board of Directors, the City Works of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 * 31) 1985-1990; Member, Board of Directors, Spring Hill Center, Wayzata, Minnesota.
 * 32) 1985-1988; Member, Allan Waterman Prize Selection Committee, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Chair, 1986-1988.
 * 33) 1985-1988; Committee on the Applications of Mathematics, National Research Coun­cil, Washington, D.C.; Chair, 1985-1988.
 * 34) 1985-1988; Member, Board of Mathematical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
 * 35) 1986-1987; Chair, Committee on Supercomputer Performance and Development, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.
 * 36) 1985; Chair, Review Committee for EPSCOR Program of the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
 * 37) 1981-2003; Member, Advisory Board for the Mathematical Sciences of Carnegie Mellon University; 1996-present: Academic Chair.
 * 38) 1983-1995; Member, American Mathematical Society Strategic Planning Committee.
 * 39) 1983; Member, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Commit­tee on Supercomputers, Washington, D.C.
 * 40) 1982; Chair, Interagency Committee on Large Scale Scientific Computing in Science and Engineering (Lax Committee), National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
 * 41) 1981-1982;  Member of the Council, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 * 42) 1981-1989; Associate Managing Editor, SIAM Series of Research Monographs on Applied Mathematics.
 * 43) 1981-1984; Chair, Federal Interagency Committee for External Mathematics Program, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
 * 44) 1980-1982; Member, Joint Programs Committee of the Mathematical Societies, Wash­ington, D.C.
 * 45) 1980-1982; Program Committee Chair for Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe­matics Control and Decision Conference.
 * 46) 1978-1982; Member, American Automation Control Council, Theory Committee, Washington, D.C.
 * 47) 1969-1972; Member, Theory Committee of the International Federation of Automatic Control.
 * 48) 1968-1971; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; Chair, Stabili­ty Theory and Nonlinear Systems Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electron­ic Engineers.
 * 49) 1968-1971; Program Committee Member, Joint Automatic Control Conference.
 * 50) 1968-1970; Chair, Program Committee, American Society of Mechanical Engineers  Control Division.
 * 51) 1967-1969; Associate Editor, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Control Division Newsletter.

Publications

 * 1) A method for the determination of the domain of stability of second-order nonlinear autonomous systems. 
 * 2) On the stability of oscillations of a simple surge tank. 
 * 3) On the large oscillations of a simple surge tank. 
 * 4) Matrix proof of the theorem of Rodrigues and Hamilton. 
 * 5) The simulation of the differential equations of a simple surge tank. 
 * 6) Stability criteria for some linear differential equations. 
 * 7) Remarks on the global stability of a class of nonlinear time-varying systems. 
 * 8) Discussion of regions of asymptotic stability of dynamic systems by the combination of Liapunov techniques and digital simulation.
 * 9) On the stability of systems defined over a finite time interval. 
 * 10) Stability criteria for N-th order, homogeneous linear differential equations.
 * 11) Extended dynamical systems and stability theory.
 * 12) Finite time stability under perturbing forces and on product spaces.
 * 13) On the stability of some linear nonautonomous systems.
 * 14) Some remarks on the stability of time-varying systems 
 * 15) An invariance principle for dynamical systems on Banach spaces:  application to the general problem of thermoelastic stability.
 * 16) On the stability of some continuous systems subjected to random excitation.
 * 17) On the stability of a column subjected to a time dependent axial load
 * 18) A remark on the numerical applications of Szego's method for constructing Liapunov functions.
 * 19) The effect of external damping on the stability of Beck's column.
 * 20) The effect of damping, time delays and parameter variations on the stability of a nonconservative system.
 * 21) Bounds on motions of some lumped and continuous dynamic systems.
 * 22) Asymptotic stability criteria for linear systems of difference differential equations of neutral type and their discrete analogues.
 * 23) Optimal growth with robust feedback controls.
 * 24) Optimal stabilization paths.
 * 25) Some results and applications of generalized dynamical systems.
 * 26) Stability theory for general dynamical systems and some applications.
 * 27) Bifurcation and stability for a nonlinear partial differential equation.
 * 28) IA bifurcation problem for a nonlinear partial differential equation.
 * 29) Some results on the pre-compactness of orbits of dynamical systems.
 * 30) On the stability properties of an equation arising in reactor dynamics.
 * 31) On the stability of an operator equation modeling nuclear reactors with delayed neutrons.
 * 32) On the asymptotic stability of oscillators with unbounded damping.
 * 33) Does fiscal policy matter?
 * 34) On the behavior of linear undamped elastic systems perturbed by follower forces.
 * 35) A perturbation approach to the stability of undamped linear elastic systems subjected to follower forces.
 * 36) A Liapunov functional for a scalar differential differ­ence equation.
 * 37) On a functional equation arising in the stability theory of difference-differential equations.
 * 38) A Liapunov functional for a matrix difference-differential equation.
 * 39) A Liapunov functional for a matrix neutral difference-differential equation with one delay.
 * 40) On the structure of a Liapunov functional for a difference-differential equation with one delay.
 * 41) A stability investigation for an incompressible simple fluid with fading memory.
 * 42) Stability in delay equations for all delays.
 * 43) On the existence of simple Liapunov functions for linear retarded difference-differential equations.
 * 44) Money financed fiscal policy in a growing economy.
 * 45) Linear Programming.
 * 46) Some recent qualitative results on models based on difference equations.
 * 47) A note on the stability in retarded delay equations for all delays.
 * 48) Some results on the Liapunov stability of functional equations.
 * 49) A Liapunov functional for linear Volterra intergrodifferential equations
 * 50) Effect of delays on stability of delay equations.
 * 51) Stability of boreholes drilled through salt formations displaying plastic behavior.

Grants

 * 1) 1966-1984; National Science Foundation (Mathematics, Economics)
 * 2) 1967-1984; Army Research Office
 * 3) 1968-1980; Air Force Office of Scientific Research
 * 4) 1964-1979; Office of Naval Research
 * 5) 1975-1979; Commonwealth Fund
 * 6) 1974-1977; US Department of Labor
 * 7) 1973-1974; Rhode Island Hospital Research Foundation