The Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada is considered to be the foremost research and educational institution of Brazil in the area of mathematics. It is located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and was formerly known simply as Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), whose abbreviation remains in use.
Elon Lages Lima was a Brazilian mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil.
Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo is a Brazilian mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and lusophone to win such award. He has been a researcher at both the IMPA and the CNRS. He has been a professor at the University of Zurich since September 2018.
Welington Celso de Melo was a Brazilian mathematician. Known for his contributions to dynamical systems theory, he served as full professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada from 1980 to 2016. Melo wrote numerous papers, one being a complete description of the topological behavior of 1-dimensional real dynamical systems . He proved the global hyperbolicity of renormalization for Cr unimodal maps. He was a recipient of the 2003 TWAS Prize.
The Brazilian Mathematical Society is a professional association founded in 1969 at Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada to promote mathematics education in Brazil.
The Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad of Public Schools (OBMEP) is an annual Mathematics contest created in 2005 by the Brazilian Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (MCT) and Ministério da Educação (MEC), in collaboration with Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) and Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática (SBM), to stimulate the mathematics education in Brazil. It is open to public school students from fifth grade to high school. In 2014 more than 18 million students were enrolled for its first round.
SESI Mathematics is a project developed by FIRJAN System with the aim of improving the teaching of math for high school students. The program consists of a series of initiatives, from the organization of training courses for teachers and distribution of educational kits, to the providing of physical spaces for students of SESI Rio and SENAI Rio network, as well as for those from selected state schools. Although the project has the pretension of being expanded to other Brazilian states, nowadays it only operates in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia.
Marcelo Miranda Viana da Silva is a Brazilian mathematician working in dynamical systems theory. He proved the Zorich–Kontsevich conjecture together with Artur Avila.
Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo was a Brazilian mathematician. He spent most of his career at IMPA and is seen as the doyen of differential geometry in Brazil.
Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo is a Brazilian mathematician noted for his researches on differential equations, elliptic operators, and calculus of variations. He is considered the greatest analyst from Brazil. He was the president of the Brazilian Mathematical Society from 1977 to 1979.
Jorge Manuel Sotomayor Tello was a Peruvian-born Brazilian mathematician who worked on differential equations, bifurcation theory, and differential equations of classical geometry.
José Bonet Solves is a Spanish mathematician specialist in functional analysis and its applications to complex analysis and linear partial differential equations.
The Olimpíada de Matemática do Grande ABC, or OMABC is a mathematical competition for pre-collegiate Brazilian students of Grande ABC region, composed by the following cities:
Chaim Samuel Hönig was a Brazilian mathematician. He was the main proposer of the Brazilian Mathematical Colloquium (1957), one of the founders of the Brazilian Mathematical Society (SBM), and its first president. Hönig was a full professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Hönig made relevant contributions to functional analysis.
Luís Barreira is a Portuguese mathematician and a professor in the department of mathematics of Instituto Superior Técnico.
Carolina Bhering de Araujo is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry, including birational geometry, Fano varieties, and foliations.
Paolo Piccione is an Italian mathematician working in differential geometry, Riemannian geometry and analysis. He is professor at the University of São Paulo since 1996 and president of the Brazilian Mathematical Society since 2017.
The Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo (IME-USP) is a teaching, research and extension unit. A unit is located at Cidade Universitária, São Paulo.
The Royal Spanish Mathematical Society is the main professional society of Spanish mathematicians and represents Spanish mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
Nancy Lopes Garcia is Professor of Statistics at University of Campinas in Brazil. Her research interests include modeling of and inference for spatial point processes, chains of infinite or variable memory, and inference for functional data.
