TV Escola highlights Brazil's entry into the elite of mathematics.
Xianfeng Zhao, Carla Pinheiro, Rafael Wei, Diego Navarro. If you want to meet them, there's only one place to go: IMPA, where they are students in the institution's highly competitive Summer Program, offered annually to those pursuing undergraduate, master's, or doctoral degrees.
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The quartet was featured on the TV Escola program "Rede Escola," which covered the announcement of Brazil's entry into the so-called Group 5 of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) at IMPA. Now, we are part of the elite of world mathematics, alongside countries such as the United States, Germany, France, and China.
After speaking with IMPA's Director-General, Marcelo Viana; Deputy Director, Claudio Landim; and the institution's extraordinary researcher, Artur Avila, winner of the Fields Medal, about the factors that led Brazil to the top of mathematical research, reporter Clarice Vargas interviewed students from the Summer Program and graduate courses at the institution. They shared what it's like to be a student at an institution that is an international benchmark.
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