Welington de Melo

Welington de Melo
Melo in 1973
Born(1946-11-17)17 November 1946
Died21 December 2016(2016-12-21) (aged 70)
NationalityBrazilian
Alma materInstituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Known forContributions to dynamical systems theory
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsInstituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (1974–2016)
Thesis Structural Stability of Diffeomorphisms on Two-Manifolds  (1973)
Doctoral advisorJacob Palis
Doctoral studentsArtur Avila

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]

  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, S2CID 119144004.
  3. ^ "Prizes and Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.