Angelo B. Mingarelli

Angelo B. Mingarelli grew up in Montreal's "Little Italy" and managed to escape in order to receive his B.Sc. (Honors) in Mathematics from Loyola College in Montreal with the mention "summa cum laude". After being awarded a 4 year NRC 1967 Science Scholarship he pursued his graduate studies at the University of Toronto where he received his Master's and Doctorate in Mathematics, the latter with a disseration on the spectral theory of differential and integral operators under the supervision of the late Professor F.V. Atkinson. His teaching career began at The Pennsylvania State University, in University Park, followed by a tenured appointment at the University of Ottawa where he was an NSERC University Research Fellow for many years. While there he was nominated for the University-wide Teacher of the Year award in 1987. Once at Carleton University in Ottawa he received Faculty of Science Awards for Excellence in Teaching on two occasions (1992, 1996) and these were complemented by a Teaching Achievement Award for 1998-1999 offered by the University in recognition of Excellence in teaching and teaching development. His research interests also include the history of mathematics (Leonardo da Vinci, Sturm, Liouville, etc), renaissance art, calligraphy, and poetry.