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