Differential Geometry: Manifolds, Bundles and Characteristic Classes (Book I-A)

About Elisabetta BarlettaFalleh R. Al-SolamyMohammad Hasan ShahidSorin Dragomir

Elisabetta Barletta is Associate Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics Computer Science and Economy Universit`a degli Studi della Basilicata (Potenza Italy). She studied mathematics at Universit`a di Firenze obtaining her degree in mathematics in 1979 under Giuseppe Tomassini. Assistant Professor at Universit`a della Basilicata since 1986 she became Associate Professor in 2003. Visiting Fellow at the University of Maryland USA (1982-1983 working with Carlos A. Berenstein); Visiting Fellow at Indiana University USA (1987-1988 working with Eric Bedford); Visiting Pro-fessor at Tohoku University Japan (2003 invited by Seiki Nishikawa). Author of over 60 research papers and of the AMS Monograph Foliations in Cauchy-Riemann geometry (2007) her research interests include complex analysis of functions of several complex variables reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces the geometry of Levi at Cauchy-Riemann manifolds and proper holomorphic maps of pseudoconvex domains.   Sorin Dragomir is Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the Universit`a degli Studi della Basilicata Potenza Italy. He studied mathematics at the Universitatea din Bucure¸sti Bucharest under Stere Ianu¸s Dumitru Smaranda Ion Colojoara Martin Jurchescu and Kostache Teleman and earned his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University New York in 1992 under Denson C. Hill. His research interests are in the study of the tangential Cauchy-Riemann (CR) equations the interplay between the K¨ahlerian geometry of pseudoconvex domains and the pseudohermitian geometry of their boundaries the impact of subel-liptic theory on CR geometry and the applications of CR geometry to space-time physics. With more than 140 research papers and 4 monographs his wider interests regard the development and dissemination of both Western and Eastern mathematical sciences. An Italian citizen since 1991 he was born in Romania and has solid cultural roots in Romanian mathematics while his mathematical orientation over the last 10 years strongly owes to H. Urakawa (Sendai Japan) E. Lanconelli (Bologna Italy) J.P. DAngelo (Urbana-Champaign USA) and H. Jacobowitz (Camden USA). He is Member of Unione Matematica Italiana American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Society of Japan.   Mohammad Hasan Shahid is former Professor at the Department of Mathematics Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi India). He also served at King Abdul Aziz University (Jeddah Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) as Associate Professor from 2001 to 2006. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh India) in 1988. His areas of research are the geometry of CR-submanifolds Riemannian submersions and tangent bundles. Author of more than 60 research papers he has visited several world universities including but not limited to the University of Patras (Greece) (from 1997 to 1998) under postdoctoral scholarship from State Scholarship Foundation (Greece); the University of Leeds (England) in 1992 to deliver lectures; Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) in 2015; Universit´e De Montpellier (France) in 2015; and Universidad De Sevilla (Spain) in 2015. He is Member of the Industrial Mathematical Society and the Indian Association for General Relativity.   Falleh R. Al-Solamy is Professor of dierential geometry at King Abdulaziz University (Jeddah Saudi Arabia). He studied mathematics at King Abdulaziz University and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wales Swansea (Swansea UK) in 1998 under Edwin Beggs. His research interests concern the study of the geometry of submanifolds in Riemannian and semi-Riemannian manifolds Einstein manifolds and applications of dierential geometry in physics. With more than 54 research papers to his credit and coedited 1 book titled Fixed Point Theory Variational Analysis and Optimization his mathematical ori-entation over the last 10 years strongly owes to S. Deshmukh (Riyadh Saudi Arabia) Mohammad Hasan Shahid (New Delhi India) and V.A. Khan (Aligarh India). He is Member of the London Mathematical Society the Institute of Physics the Saudi Association for Mathematical Sciences the Tensor Society the Saudi Computer Society and the American Mathematical Society.