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
Alma mater Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Known for Contributions to dynamical systems theory
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Thesis Structural Stability of Diffeomorphisms on Two-Manifolds (1973)
Doctoral advisor Jacob Palis
Doctoral students Artur Avila, Maria Pacifico, Edson Vargas, Daniel Smania, Pablo Guarino

Welington Celso de Melo (17 November 1946 – 21 December 2016) was a Brazilian mathematician. Known for his contributions to dynamical systems theory, he served as full professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada from 1980 to 2016. Melo wrote 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]

Awards and honors


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: 731–824, arXiv:math/0702851, doi:10.4007/annals.2006.164.731 .
  3. ↑ "Prizes and Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
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