Citizenship Brazilian and French Spouse Susan Schommer Fields Mathematics | Name Artur Avila Role Mathematician | |
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Residence Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Paris, France Institutions IMPA, CNRSParis Diderot University (Paris 7)Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada Alma mater Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Known for Dynamical systemsSpectral theory Education Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada Books Cocycles Over Partially Hyperbolic Maps Similar People | ||
Doctoral advisor Welington de Melo | ||
Artur avila is first brazilian mathematician to win fields medal simons foundation
Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo (born 29 June 1979) is a Brazilian and French mathematician working primarily on dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American to win such award. He is a researcher at both the IMPA and the CNRS (working a half-year in each one).
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- Artur avila is first brazilian mathematician to win fields medal simons foundation
- International congress of mathematicians 2010 hyderabad artur avila impa brasil
- Biography
- Prizes
- Mathematical work
- References
International congress of mathematicians 2010 hyderabad artur avila impa brasil
Biography
At the age of 16, Avila won a gold medal at the 1995 International Mathematical Olympiad and received a scholarship for the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) to M.S. while still attending high school in Colégio de São Bento and Colégio Santo Agostinho in Rio de Janeiro. Later he enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro(UFRJ), earning his B.S in mathematics.
At the age of 19, Avila began making his doctoral thesis on the theory of dynamical systems. In 2001 he finished it and received his PhD from IMPA. That same year he moved abroad to France to do postdoctoral research . He works with dimensional dynamics and holomorphic functions. Since 2003 he has worked as a researcher for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France, later becoming a Research Director in 2008 . His post-doctoral supervisor was Jean-Christophe Yoccoz.
In 2005, at age 26, Arthur became known amongst mathematicians for proving the "Conjecture of the ten martinis", a problem proposed in 1980 by the American mathematical physicist Barry Simon. Simon promised to pay ten martini doses to whoever explained his theory about the behavior of "Schrödinger operators", mathematical tools related to quantum physics. Artur solved the problem along with mathematician Svetlana Jitomirskaya and was rewarded with a few rounds of martini.
Prizes
Later, as a research mathematician, he received in 2006 a CNRS Bronze Medal as well as the Salem Prize, and was a Clay Research Fellow. He became the youngest Professorial Fellow (directeur de recherches) at the CNRS in 2008. The same year, he was awarded one of the ten prestigious European Mathematical Society prizes, and in 2009 he won the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand from the French Academy of Sciences. In 2017 he gave the Łojasiewicz Lecture (on the "One-frequency Schrödinger operators and the almost reducibility conjecture") at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
He was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010. In 2011, he was awarded the Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems. He received the Early Career Award from the International Association of Mathematical Physics in 2012, TWAS Prize in 2013 and the Fields Medal in 2014.
Mathematical work
In 2005, together with Svetlana Jitomirskaya, he solved the ten martini problem, and together with Marcelo Viana, he proved the Zorich–Kontsevich conjecture.