Marcelo Viana | |
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Born | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[2] | March 4, 1962
Alma mater | University of Porto (B. Sc.) IMPA (Ph. D.)[2] |
Known for | Zorich–Kontsevich conjecture |
Awards | ICTP Ramanujan Prize (2005) Brazil's National Order of Scientific Merit Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Louis D. (2016)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada |
Thesis | Strange Attractors in Higher Dimensions (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | Jacob Palis[2] |
Doctoral students | Carlos Matheus |
Marcelo Miranda Viana da Silva (born 4 March 1962) is a Brazilian mathematician working in dynamical systems theory.[2][3] He proved the Zorich–Kontsevich conjecture together with Artur Avila.
He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1993.[4] He received the TWAS Prize in 1998[5] and in 2005 he was awarded the inaugural ICTP Ramanujan Prize for his research achievements.[3]
Viana was vice-president of the International Mathematical Union in 2011–2014, and president of the Brazilian Mathematical Society (2013–2015).[6][7]
In 1998, he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Berlin.[8][9]
Viana is director elected of the IMPA (for the period 2016–2019).
Viana is a columnist for Folha de S.Paulo.[10]
He was the chair of the executive committee for the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, Rio de Janeiro.[11]