About Anthony
QUICK FACTS:
- Ph.D. student in Mathematics, Princeton University
- Part III Mathematics, University of Cambridge on a Churchill Scholarship
- Received a Master’s Degree from Columbia University.
- Bachelor’s in Physics, mathematics, astronomy/astrophysics, and music/piano performance.
- During his undergraduate studies he studied piano under Grammy Award-winning pianist André Watts at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.
- Diagnosed at age 9 with Type 1 diabetes, which led him to start playing piano. Read his story HERE in The Florida Catholic.
- After three years of playing piano, Anthony won 2nd place in the Music Teachers National Association Florida Young Pianists Competition at the age of 12.
- Anthony was the final performer in the Chopin Foundation of the United States’ Young Pianists Concert. Click HERE to listen to Anthony playing Frederic Chopin’s Ballade in G Minor, Op. 23; click HERE to listen to Anthony playing Frederic Chopin’s Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 10, No. 4.
- At age 14 Anthony performed Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16, 1st Movement with the Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra. CLICK HERE to view this performance.
- Is a practicing Catholic. Read Anthony’s story HERE featured in Columbia Magazine, June 2021 by Patti Armstrong.
- Through the Institute for Advanced Physics and renowned Catholic physicist Dr. Anthony Rizzi he studied St. Thomas Aquinas’ teachings especially as they relate to science and the physical world.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
CONTACT:
Email: anthonyaconiglio@gmail.com
Website: anthonyconiglio.com
Institute for Advanced Physics website: IAPweb.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyaconiglio
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/grandpiano9
FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS:
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
• Awarded for PhD studies at Columbia University
Churchill Scholarship, awarded by the Churchill Foundation of the United States
• Awarded for Master’s studies at the University of Cambridge
RESEARCH:
“The Mathieu Differential Equation and Generalizations to Infinite Fractafolds.”
Co-authored with Shiping Cao, Xueyan Niu, Professor Richard Rand, and Professor Robert Strichartz. Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 19:3, 1795-1845. April 2020.
Link to publication: https://www.aimsciences.org/article/doi/10.3934/cpaa.2020073/
Note: This Research was conducted at Cornell University, Summer 2018, under the direction of Professor Robert Strichartz: https://www.math.cornell.edu/robert-s-strichartz/
“Noise-Induced Stabilization of Perturbed Hamiltonian Systems.”
Co-authored with Tiffany Kolba, Sarah Sparks, and Daniel Weithers. Published in The American Mathematical Monthly, 126:6, 505-518. May 2019.
Link to this publication: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00029890.2019.1586502/
Note: This Research was conducted at Valparaiso University, Summer 2017, under the direction of Tiffany Kolba:
“Continuous Chromagrams and Pseudometric Spaces of Sound Spectra.”
Co-authored with Jordan Lenchitz. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 13267, pages 307–318. June 2022.
Link to publication: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-07015-0_25