Marcelo Viana receives ‘IMSA Mathematician Award’
IMPA’s Director General honored for his work in Latin America
29/1/2025
On Wednesday (29), Marcelo Viana received the “IMSA Established Mathematician Award”, granted by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA), through the institution’s Collaborative Group of Mathematical Societies. The award ceremony took place at the 2nd edition of Mathematical Waves Miami (MWM), at the University of Miami, in the United States.
“I’m very grateful to the jury for choosing me as the winner of this award, it’s a great honor for me. Even more so as it is a distinction conferred by IMSA, an institution whose mission to promote cooperation in mathematics in the Americas is so closely aligned with our work at IMPA,” said Viana.
The award is part of the “IMSA Prize: Celebrating Excellence in Latin American Mathematics” initiative, which honored Viana and two other mathematicians with influential research in Latin America. They were recognized by the “IMSA Young Mathematician Award”. Alfredo Najera Chaves, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), won as an outstanding young mathematician. And Rita Jimenez Rolland, from UNAM, received recognition as a woman with relevant mathematical research in Latin America. All the winners will receive a sum of money and a certificate of recognition for their exceptional contributions to the field.
The choice of honorees went through a rigorous selection process, which involved a committee made up of leading mathematicians from different areas of the discipline. The evaluation gave special priority to “the mathematical significance, impact and quality of their work”.
Before the ceremony, Viana gave a lecture on “Partially hyperbolic dynamics”. The mathematician discussed the characteristics exhibited by partially hyperbolic systems, especially those related to rigidity, Lyapunov exponents and pathological foliations. Another 23 Latin American mathematicians gave lectures on various topics, such as Real and sparse intersections, Geometry of Hodge fibrations on Riemann surfaces and Complex and simplicial structures in almost abelian Lie groups.
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