Education

• June 1992, Ph.D., Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Dissertation title: Discrete Observability of the Wave Equation. Advisor: Dr. Dorothy Wallace

• June 1989, A.M., Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH .

• June 1987, B.S., Mathematics (summa cum laude), Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Professional Experience

• present, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA.

• September 1992 - 1999, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA.

• September 1994 - June 1995, Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Boston University, Boston, MA.

• September 1989 - June 1992, Lecturer in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

• September 1989 - September 1990, Research Assistant (NSA Grant MDA 904-89-H-2021), Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

• September 1987 - August 1989, Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

Professional Societies

• Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society

• Mathematical Association of America

• American Mathematical Society

• Association for Women in Mathematics

Professional Activities

• November 1993, Undergraduate Colloquium, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.

• November 1994, Dynamics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Boston University, Boston, MA.

• November 1994, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Worcester Polytechnic Institue, Worcester, MA.

• February 1997, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

• March 1998, Dynamics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Boston University, Boston, MA.

Professional Interests

• Teaching: Real and Abstract Analysis, Fourier analysis, ordinary and partial differential equations, dynamical systems and chaos.

• Research (Fields of interest with AMS Subject Classification): observability ( 93 Control Theory), dynamical systems (58 Global Analysis), partial differential equations (35), and abstract harmonic analysis (43).

Grants Awarded

• NSF ILI-IG, 1993

• Summer Faculty Fellowship - 1994, 1997, 1998

• Research and Publication Grant - 1993, Spring 1998, Fall 1998

• Association for Women in Mathematics Travel Grant - 1993, 1998

Publications

1. A. DeStefano, P. Kostelec and D.I. Wallace, ``Interpolating Uniquely with only a Finite Class of Polynomials", Progress in Systems and Control Theory 4: Robust Control of Linear Systems and Nonlinear Control, Proceedings of the International Symposium MTNS-89 Vol. II, M. Kaashoek, J. van Schuppen, and A. Ran, eds., Birkhauser, Boston, 1990, 497-505.

2. Alisa DeStefano, ``Universal Observability", Progress in Systems and Control Theory: Computation and Control II, Proceedings of the Bozeman Conference, Bozeman, Montana, August 1990, K. Bowers and J. Lund, eds., Birkhauser, Boston, 1991, 85-94.

3. Alisa DeStefano, Discrete Observability of the Wave Equation, Ph.D. Thesis, Dartmouth College, 1992.

4. Alisa DeStefano, ``Discrete Observability of the Wave Equation on Bounded Domains in Euclidean Space", Progress in Systems and Control Theory: Computation and Control III, Proceedings of the Bozeman Conference, Bozeman, Montana, August 1992, K. Bowers and J. Lund, eds., Birkhauser, Boston, 1993, 141-151.

5. Alisa DeStefano, ``Discrete Observability of the Heat Equation", Systems and Networks: Mathematical Theory and Applications, Proceedings of the International Symposium MTNS-93, Regensburg, Germany, August 1993, U. Helmke, R. Mennicken and J. Saurer, eds., Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1994, 655-658.

6. Alisa DeStefano, Steven P. Kaliszewski, and D. I. Wallace, ``Acuity of Observation of the Heat Equation on a Bounded Domain", Progress in Systems and Control Theory: Computation and Control IV, Proceedings of the Bozeman Conference, Bozeman, Montana, August 1994, K. Bowers and J. Lund, eds., Birkhauser, Boston, 1995, 115-126.

7. A. DeStefano, ``Discrete Observability of the Wave Equation on Bounded Domains in Euclidean Space", Internat. J. Control, 64, No.2, 1996, 281-300.

8. A. DeStefano, ``Discrete Observability of a Generalized Wave Equation on a Compact Homogeneous Space", International Journal of Control, 69, No. 4, 1998, 539-560.

9. Alisa DeStefano and G. R. Hall, ``An Example of A Universally Observable Flow on the Torus", with G. R. Hall, SIAM J. Control and Optimization, 36, No. 4, 1998.

10. Alisa DeStefano and G. R. Hall, ``A Universally Observable Flow on the Two Dimensional Torus", J. Math. Systems, Estimation and Control, 8, No. 2, 1998, 209-212. Summary appears in print and full text available electronically.

11. Alisa DeStefano, ``An Equivalence Involving Universal Observability and Topological Dynamics", in Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Proceedings of the MTNS-98 Symposium held in Padova, Italy, A. Beghi, L.Finesso, and G. Picci, eds., Il Poligrafo, 1998, 133-136.

12. Alisa DeStefano and G. R. Hall, ``The Construction of a Universally Observable Flow on the Torus", Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 1998.

13. Alisa DeStefano, ``Connections Between Universal Observability and Topological Dynamics", Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 33, 2001, 115-120.

Conference Presentations

• Universal Observability, oral presentation, Computation and Control II, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, August 1990.

• Universal Observability, oral presentation, SIAM conference on Linear Algebra, November 1990.

• Discrete Observability of the Wave Equation , oral presentation, Computation and Control III, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, August 1992.

• Discrete Observability, oral presentation, Dartmouth Workshop on Inverse Problems, April 1993.

• Discrete Observability of the Heat Equation , oral presentation, MTNS-93, Regensburg, Germany, August 1993.

• Acuity of Observation of the Heat Equation ,featured display, Computation and Control IV, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, August 1994.

• A Universally Observable Flow on the Two Dimensional Torus , oral presentation, Computation and Control V, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, August 1996.

• An Equivalence Involving Universal Observability and Topological Dynamics , oral presentation, MTNS-98, Padova, Italy, July 1998.

• Universal Observability and Topological Dynamics , oral presentation, Computation and Control VI, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, August 1998.

• The Construction of a Universally Observable Flow on the Torus , oral presentation, 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, FL, December 17, 1998.

• Universal Observability and Primeness , oral presentation, Conference on Topological and Measurable Dynamics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 22, 1999.