Jacob Palis

Jacob Palis
Born (1940-03-15) 15 March 1940 (age 84)
Uberaba, Brazil
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Known forDynamical systems
Palis conjecture[1][2][3]
AwardsPremio México de Ciencia y Tecnología (2000)
Balzan Prize (2010)
Abdus Salam Medal (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsInstituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Doctoral advisorStephen Smale
Doctoral studentsArtur Oscar Lopes
Ricardo Mañé
Welington de Melo
Carlos Gustavo Moreira
Enrique Pujals
Marcelo Viana

Jacob Palis Jr. (born 15 March 1940) is a Brazilian mathematician and professor. Palis' research interests are mainly dynamical systems and differential equations. Some themes are global stability and hyperbolicity, bifurcations, attractors and chaotic systems.

  1. ^ Christian Bonatti; Lorenzo J. Díaz; Marcelo Viana (30 March 2006), Dynamics Beyond Uniform Hyperbolicity: A Global Geometric and Probabilistic Perspective, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 9, ISBN 978-3-540-26844-4
  2. ^ Berger, Pierre (2014). "Generic family with robustly infinitely many sinks". arXiv:1411.6441v2 [math.DS].
  3. ^ "Jacob Palis Conjecture(Finitude of Attractors)(Dynamical Systems)". Open Problem Garden.