Welington de Melo

Welington de Melo

Melo in 1973
Born (1946-11-17)17 November 1946
Guapé, Minas Gerais
Died 21 December 2016(2016-12-21) (aged 70)
Nationality Brazilian
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Alma mater Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Thesis Structural Stability of Diffeomorphisms on Two-Manifolds (1973)
Doctoral advisor Jacob Palis
Doctoral students Artur Avila
Alejandro Kocsard
Maria Pacifico
Daniel Smania
Edson Vargas
Known for Contributions to dynamical systems theory

Welington Celso de Melo (17 November 1946 – 21 December 2016) was a Brazilian mathematician. Known for his contributions to the dynamical systems theory, he was a full professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada from 1980 to 2016. Melo had written numerous papers, one being a complete description of the topological behavior of 1-dimensional real dynamical systems (co-authored with Marco Martens and Sebastian van Strien).[1] He proved the global hyperbolicity of renormalization for Cr unimodal maps (co-authored with Alberto Pinto and Edson de Faria). [2] He was a recipient of the 2003 TWAS Prize.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Martens, M.; De Melo, W.; Van Strien, S. (1992), "Julia-Fatou-Sullivan theory for real one-dimensional dynamics", Acta Mathematica, 168 (1): 273–318, doi:10.1007/BF02392981.
  2. ↑ Faria, E.; De Melo, W.; Pinto, A. (2006), "Global hyperbolicity of renormalization for Cr unimodal maps", Annals of Mathematics, 164: 724–831.
  3. ↑ "Prizes and Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
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