CURRICULUM VITAE
SEPTEMBER 2013
Yuri Lima
Brin Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics
University of Maryland
Department of Mathematics, Room 4117
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Phone: +1-301-405-5082
E-mail: [email protected]
Webpage: www.impa.br/∼yurilima
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Citizenship: Brazilian.
Date and Place of Birth: February 5, 1985. Fortaleza, Brazil.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Mathematics. March 2007 - February 2011.
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada - Brazil
Advisor 1: Carlos Gustavo Moreira.
Advisor 2: Enrique Ramiro Pujals.
Master of Science in Mathematics. August 2006 - June 2008.
Universidade Federal do Ceará - Brazil
Bachelor Degree in Mathematics. March 2004 - July 2006.
Universidade Federal do Ceará - Brazil
Summa Cum Laude.
POSITIONS HELD
Brin Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics. August 2013 - present.
University of Maryland - USA
Mentor: Vadim Kaloshin.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics. October 2011 - July 2013.
Weizmann Institute of Science - Israel
Mentor: Omri Sarig.
Balzan Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics. March 2011 - September 2011.
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada - Brazil
Mentor: Jacob Palis.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Dynamical Systems
• Ergodic Theory
• Probability
• Combinatorics
GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
• Capes/Weizmann 2012 grant, 2 years (Title: Infinite ergodic theory).
• Carlos Gutierrez Prize of Best Ph.D. Thesis in Mathematics 2011.
• J. Palis 2010 Balzan Prize for Mathematics Postdoctoral Fellowship, March 2011 - October
2011.
• Faperj Nota 10 Ph.D. Fellowship, March 2009 - February 2011.
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• CNPq Ph.D. Fellowship, March 2007 - February 2009.
• IMPA Summer Fellowship - 2002, 2005, 2007.
• Honors at Undergraduates Research Meeting of IMPA, November 2004.
• Gold medalist - 11th International Mathematical Olympiad for University Students, Macedonia, July 2004. Received and honored by the President of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, in
Brası́lia D.F., September 2004.
• Bronze medalist - 44th International Mathematical Olympiad, United Kingdom, July 2002.
• Gold medalist - 5th Brazilian Informatics Olympiad, July 2004.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Maryland
Fall 2013 - Lecturer - Introduction to probability theory.
IMPA
Spring 2011 - Lecturer - Infinite Ergodic Theory.
Fall 2010 - Teaching Assistant - Differentiable ergodic theory.
Spring 2009 - Teaching Assistant - Ordinary differential equations.
Winter 2009 - Teaching Assistant - Linear algebra.
Fall 2008 - Teaching Assistant - Discrete mathematics.
Elite High School - Brazil
2007 - 2010 - Lecturer - Math olympiad training.
The University of Utah
Winter 2006 - Research Assistant - Computer graphics.
Sete de Setembro High School - Brazil
2004 - 2007 - Lecturer - Math olympiad training.
Evolutivo High School - Brazil
2005 - 2007 - Lecturer - Math olympiad training.
AOBM (Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad Association)
2010 - Problems selection committee - 2nd Iberoamerican Mathematics Competition for University Students, Itaipava, Brazil.
2008 - Leader of Brazilian Team - 15th International Mathematics Competition for University
Students, American Univerisity in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
2007 - Leader of Brazilian Team - 16th South American Math Olympiad, Atlántida, Uruguay.
2005 - now - Coordinator - South American Math Olympiad Training.
2005 - Deputy Leader of Brazilian Team - Iberoamerican Math Olympiad, Cartagena de
Indias, Colombia.
2004 - 2010 - Instructor - Brazilian Math Olympiad Summer Camp.
TALKS
• Minicourse “Introduction to Ratner’s theory”, IMPA - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2013.
• Second Palis-Balzan Symposium on Dynamical Systems, IHP - Paris, France, June 2013.
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• Horowitz seminar, Tel Aviv University - Tel Aviv, Israel, May 2013.
• Center for Dynamics and Geometry seminar, Penn State - State College, USA, March 2013.
• Dynamics seminar, University of Chicago - Chicago, USA, March 2013.
• Groups Actions & Dynamics seminar, University of Texas - Austin, USA, February 2013.
• Dynamics seminar, University of Maryland - College Park, USA, February 2013.
• Dynamics and Probability seminar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem, Israel,
January 2013.
• Probability and Combinatorics seminar, IMPA - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2012.
• Dynamics seminar, IMPA - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2012.
• Second Brazilian School on Dynamical Systems, University of São Paulo - São Carlos, Brazil,
October 2012.
• Dynamics seminar, Moscow State University - Moscow, Russia, September 2012.
• Carlos Gutierrez Prize, University of São Paulo - São Carlos, Brazil, August 2012.
• Dynamics seminar, UNESP - São José do Rio Preto, Brazil, August 2012.
• First Palis-Balzan Symposium, IMPA - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2012.
• ICTP-ESF School and Workshop on Dynamical Systems, The Abdus Salam International
Centre for Theoretical Physics - Trieste, Italy, May 2012.
• Analysis seminar, Technion - Haifa, Israel, April 2012.
• Special seminar on Infinite Ergodic Theory, Tel Aviv University - Tel Aviv, Israel, March
2012.
• Dynamics and Probability seminar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem, Israel,
January 2012.
• Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems seminar, Université Paris 13 - Paris, France, December 2011.
• Probability and Ergodic Theory seminar, Ben Gurion University - Be’er Sheva, Israel, November 2011.
• EDAÍ, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2011.
• Bicentennial Workshop on Dynamical Systems, Universidad Catolica del Norte - San Pedro
de Atacama, Chile, May 2010.
• Brazilian Undergraduates Research Meeting, IMPA - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2004.
LONG-TERM VISITS
• IMPA - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2013.
• University of Maryland - College Park, USA, February – March 2013.
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
• Workshop on Combinatorics, Number Theory and Dynamical Systems, IMPA - Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, August 2013.
• Second Palis-Balzan Symposium on Dynamical Systems, IHP - Paris, France, June 2013.
• Workshop on Ergodic Theory with Connections to Arithmetic, University of Crete - Heraklion,
Greece, June 2013.
• Dynamics on parameter spaces II, Ben-Gurion University - Sde Boker, Israel, January 2013.
• Second Brazilian School on Dynamical Systems, University of São Paulo - São Carlos, Brazil,
October 2012.
• Flows on Homogeneous Spaces, Technion - Haifa, Israel, September 2012.
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• First Palis-Balzan Symposium on Dynamical Systems, IMPA - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June
2012.
• ICTP-ESF School and Workshop on Dynamical Systems, ICTP - Trieste, Italy, May 2012.
• Ergodic Geometry and Dynamics in the Moduli Space: a Crossview, Centre International de
Rencontres Mathématiques - Marseille, France, April 2012.
• Invariant Random Subgroups, Ben-Gurion University - Sde Boker, Israel, February 2012.
• Beyond Uniform Hyperbolicity, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques - Marseille,
France, June 2011.
• International Conference in Ergodic Geometry, University Paris-Sud 11 - Orsay, France, May
2011.
• Bicentennial Workshop on Dynamical Systems, Universidad Catolica del Norte - San Pedro
de Atacama, Chile, May 2010.
• International Conference on Dynamical Systems “in honor of Jacob Palis on his 70th birthday”, IMPA - Búzios, Brazil, March 2010.
• First Brazilian School on Dynamical Systems, Federal University of Alagoas - Maceió, Brazil,
February 2010.
• A Conference in Ergodic Theory: Dynamical Systems and Randomness, Institut Henri Poincaré - Paris, France, May 2009.
• Summer School and Conference on Dynamical Systems, International Centre for Theoretical
Physics - Trieste, Italy, July 2008.
• Summer School in Dynamical Systems, University of Coimbra - Coimbra, Portugal, July 2008.
• Brazilian Colloquium of Mathematics, IMPA - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007, 2009.
ORGANIZATION
• Workshop on Combinatorics, Number Theory and Dynamical Systems, IMPA - Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, August 2013.
BOOKS
• Treinamento Cone Sul volume 2, with C. Thiago, S. Feitosa and B. Holanda, Realce Editora,
2010, 174 pages.
• Treinamento Cone Sul volume 1, with C. Augusto, S. Feitosa and B. Holanda, Realce Editora,
2007, 114 pages.
LANGUAGES
Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Hebrew (basic), Spanish (fluent), French (intermediate).
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PUBLICATION LIST
• Ergodic properties of skew products in infinite measure, with Patricia Cirilo and Enrique Pujals. Available at www.impa.br/∼yurilima.
• Annihilation and coalescence on binary trees, with Itai Benjamini. To appear in Stochastics
and Dynamics.
• A generalized Pólya’s urn with graph based interactions, with Michel Benaı̈m, Itai Benjamini,
and Jun Chen. To appear in Random Structures & Algorithms.
• A Marstrand theorem for subsets of integers, with Carlos Gustavo Moreira. To appear in
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing.
• An Abramov formula for stationary spaces of discrete groups, with Yair Hartman and Omer
Tamuz. To appear in Ergodic Theory & Dynamical Systems.
• Law of large numbers for certain cylinder flows, with Patricia Cirilo and Enrique Pujals. To
appear in Ergodic Theory & Dynamical Systems.
• Zd -actions with prescribed topological and ergodic properties. Ergodic Theory & Dynamical
Systems 32 (2012), no. 1, 191–209.
• Yet another proof of Marstrand’s theorem, with Carlos Gustavo Moreira. Bulletin of the
Brazilian Mathematical Society 42 (2011), no. 2, 331–345.
• A combinatorial proof of Marstrand’s Theorem for products of regular Cantor sets, with Carlos
Gustavo Moreira. Expositiones Mathematicae 29 (2011), no. 2, 231–239.
• A Unified Projection Operator for Moving Least Squares, with T. Ochota, C Scheidegger, J.
Schreiner, J. Kirby and C. Silva. SCI Institute Technical Report, 1–13 (2007).
REFERENCES
Vitaly Bergelson
The Ohio State University
Department of Mathematics
USA
[email protected]
Michael Hochman
The Hebrew University
Einstein Institute of Mathematics
Israel
[email protected]
Enrique Pujals
IMPA
Brazil
[email protected]
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Omri Sarig
Weizmann Institute of Science
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Israel
[email protected]
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