Meysam Nassiri

Thesis title: “Robustly Transitive Sets in Nearly Integrable Hamiltonian Systems”

Awarding the Degree: 05/09/2006
Advisor: Enrique Ramiro Pujals

Wanderson José Lambert

Thesis title: “Riemann Problems for Phase Change Balance Systems for Thermal Flows in Porous Media”

Awarding the Degree: 30/08/2006
Supervisor; Dan Marchesin
Co-supervisor: Johannes Bruining

José Valentim Machado Vicente

Thesis title: “Essays on Risk Regulation and on Affine Term Structure Models”

Awarding the Degree: 21/08/2006
Supervisor: Aloisio P. Araujo
Co-supervisor: Caio Ibsen Rodrigues de Almeida

Mahdi Teymuri Garakani

Thesis title: “On the Deformation of Holomorphic Foliations and Complex Hypersurfaces”

Awarding the Degree: 18/08/2006
Supervisor: César Camacho
Co-supervisor: Bruno César Azevedo Scárdua

Paula Murgel Veloso

Thesis title: “Algebras of Groups and Semigroups”

Awarding the Degree: 15/08/2006
Supervisor: Arnaldo Leite Pinto Garcia
Co-supervisor: Guilherme Leal

Dimas Martínez Morera

Thesis title: “Geodesic-based Modeling on Manifold Triangulations”

Awarding the Degree: 07/08/2006
Supervisor: Paulo Cezar Carvalho
Co-supervisor: Luiz Velho

Juliana Coelho Chaves

Thesis title: “On Abel Maps for Reducible Curves”

Awarding the Degree: 29/07/2006
Advisor: Eduardo Esteves

Didier Jacques François Pilod

Thesis title: “The Cauchy Problem for the Dispersive Kuramoto-Velarde Equation”

Awarding the Degree: 29/06/2006
Advisor: Felipe Linares

Vinícius Moreira Mello

Thesis title: “New Simplicial Methods in Computer Graphics”

Awarding the Degree: 17/04/2006
Advisor: Luiz Velho

Asla Medeiros e Sá

Thesis title: “Lighting Control for Increasing the Information Present in a Collection of Images”

Awarding the Degree: 09/03/2006
Advisor: Paulo Cezar Carvalho

Duilio Tadeu da Conceição Junior

Title: “Balancing Domain Decomposition Preconditioners for Non-Symmetric Problems”

Awarding the Degree: 08/03/2006
Advisor: Marcus Sarkis

Henrique de Melo Versieux

Thesis title: “Numerical Boundary Corrector Methods and Analysis for a Second Order Elliptic PDE with highly Oscillatory Periodic Coefficients with Applications to Porous Media”

Degree awarded: 03/02/2006
Advisor: Marcus Sarkis

Marcos Petrúcio de Almeida Cavalcante

Thesis title: “Conformally Flat Metrics, Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces in Some Product Spaces and R-Stable Hypersurfaces”

Degree awarded: 06/01/2006
Advisor: Manfredo do Carmo