Carlos Bocker Neto

Thesis title: “Continuity of Lyapunov Exponents for 2D-Random Matrices”

Granting of the degree: 14/12/2009
Advisor: Marcelo Viana


Jefferson Divino Gonçalves de Melo

Thesis title: “On General Augmented Lagrangians and a Modified Subgradient Algorithm”

Granting of the degree: 26/11/2009
Advisor: Alfredo Iusem
Co-supervisor: Regina Sandra Burachik


Almir Rogério Silva Santos

Thesis title: “A Construction of Constant Scalar Curvature Manifolds with Delaunay-Type Ends”

Granting of the degree: 19/11/2009
Supervisor: Fernando Codá


Francisco Javier Valenzuela Henriquez

Thesis Title: “Dominated Splitting and Critical Set for Polynomials Automorphisms on C^2”

Granting of the degree: 01/12/2009
Supervisor: Enrique Ramiro Pujals


Anderson Mayrink da Cunha

Thesis title: “Voice-Guided Head Movements”

Granting of the degree: 09/10/2009
Advisor: Luiz Velho


Alien Herrera Torres

Thesis title: “Voice-Guided Head Movements”

Granting of the degree: 05/08/2009
Advisor: Marcelo Viana


José Yunier Bello Cruz

Thesis title: “Direct Methods for Monotone Variational Inequalities”

Granting of the degree: 03/08/2009
Advisor: Alfredo Noel Iusem


Leonardo Erick Muller

Thesis title: “Topics in Finance: from Modeling to Numerical Analysis”

Granting of the degree: 30/06/2009
Supervisor: Jorge Passamani Zubelli


Evilson da Silva Vieira

Thesis title: “Projective Limit Cycles and Computational Applications to Complex Dynamics”

Granting of the degree: 10/06/2009
Advisor: Hossein Movasati


Jorge Nicolás Caro Montoya

Thesis title: “Towers of Function Fields Over Cubic Finite Fields”

Granting of the degree: 23/04/2009
Advisor: Arnaldo Garcia


Rodrigo Salomão

Thesis title: “On Moving Singularities in Fibrations by Algebraic Curves”

Awarding the degree: 17/04/2009
Advisor: Karl Otto Stohr


Cristián Andrés Ortiz González

Thesis title: “Multiplicative Dirac Structures”

Granting of the degree: 14/04/2009
Advisor: Henrique Bursztyn


Grigori Chapiro

Thesis title: “Gas-Solid Combustion in Insulated Porous Media”

Granting of the degree: 07/07/2009
Advisor: Dan Marchesin


Ana Maria Soares Luz

Thesis title: “Stability of a Wave Train over a Highly Variable Seabed”

Granting of the degree: 25/03/2009
Advisor: André Nachbin


Jean Carlos da Silva

Thesis title: “Young’s Multi-Scale Measures in Stochastic Homogenization with Applications to Nonlinear PDEs”

Granting of the degree: 06/03/2009
Advisor: Hermano Frid Neto


Etereldes Gonçalves Júnior

Thesis title: “FETI-Mortar-Multilevel Preconditioners for a Linear-Quadratic Elliptic Control Problem”

Granting of the degree: 30/07/2009
Advisor: Marcus Sarkis


Maria João Lima Soares de Resende

Thesis title: “Exponential Decay of the Teichmüller Flow in the Space of Modules of Quadratic Differentials”

Granting of the degree: 27/02/2009
Advisor: Marcelo Viana


Maicon Marques Alves

Thesis title: “On Convex Representations of Maximal Monotone Operators in Non-Reflexive Banach Spaces”

Granting of the degree: 18/02/2009
Supervisor: Benar Fux Svaiter


Omar Javier Solano Albonoz

Thesis title: “Absolutely Continuous Invariant Measures for Non-Uniformly Expanding Skew Products”

Granting of the degree: 18/02/2009
Advisor: Marcelo Viana


Sérgio de Moura Almaraz

Thesis title: “Existence and Compactness Theorems for the Yamabe Problem on Manifolds with Boundary”

Granting of the degree: 10/02/2009
Supervisor: Fernando Codá


Esdras Soares de Medeiros Filho

Thesis title: “Solid Topology in Multiresolution”

Granting of the degree: 15/01/2009
Advisor: Luiz Velho
Co-supervisor: Hélio Cortes Vieira Lopes