Roberto Garrappa is Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Bari (Italy). His current research interests include numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations of fractional order and evaluation of special functions. He is the author of several numerical Matlab codes for fractional-order problems available in the MathWorks website.
Francesco Mainardi is retired Professor of Mathematical Physics from the University of Bologna, where he taught this course for more than 40 years. His research concerns several topics of applied mathematics, including diffusion and wave problems, asymptotic methods, integral transforms, special functions, fractional calculus and non-Gaussian stochastic processes.