Diego Marcon Farias Ph.D., Instituto Superior Técnico, 2013 Departamento de Matemática – IST Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1 1049-001 – Lisboa, Portugal Phone: +351-960-067-526 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/dmarcon/ INFORMATION Citizenship: Brazilian. Date and place of birth: April 27, 1986. Porto Alegre, Brazil. Languages: Portuguese (native) and English (fluent). EDUCATION Ph.D. in Mathematics. October 2009 – May 2013. Instituto Superior Técnico, in the framework of the UT Austin – Portugal Program. Thesis: Weak KAM and Aubry–Mather theories in an optimal switching setting. Advisor: Diogo Gomes – IST. Co-Advisor: Alessio Figalli – UT Austin. M. Sc. in Mathematics. August 2007 – July 2009. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Thesis: Sobre soluções positivas de problemas semipositonos elı́pticos com dois parâmetros [On positive solutions of semipositone elliptic problems with two parameters, in Portuguese]. Advisor: Eduardo Brietzke – UFRGS. B. Sc. in Mathematics. March 2004 – July 2007. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. FELLOWSHIPS October 2009 – present. Graduate scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia – FCT, Portugal. IMPA Summer fellow: 2007, 2009. Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada – IMPA, RJ, Brazil. August 2007 – July 2009. Gratuate scholarship from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientı́fico e Tecnológico – CNPq, Brazil. March 2005 – July 2007. Undergratuate scholarship from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientı́fico e Tecnológico – CNPq, Brazil. AREAS OF RESEARCH Calculus of variations, partial differential equations, optimal transport, Aubry–Mather theory. Diego Marcon Farias Page 2 PUBLICATIONS 3. Weak KAM and Aubry–Mather theories in an optimal switching setting (with A. Figalli and D. Gomes). In preparation. 2. Homogenization of the A(x)−Laplacian, with applications to unilateral problems (with J.F. Rodrigues and R. Teymurazyan). In preparation. 1. A quantitative log-Sobolev inequality for a two parameter family of functions (with E. Indrei), International Mathematics Research Notices, to appear. RESEARCH TALKS June 7, 2013. Nonlinear PDEs in Continuum Mechanics, International Workshop. CMAF/Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Title: Calculus of variations and Weak KAM results in optimal switching problems. April 24, 2013. PDE seminar at Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal. Title: A quantitative log-Sobolev inequality for a two parameter family of functions. November 14, 2012. PDE seminar at Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal. Title: Calculus of variations and weak KAM theorem in optimal switching. May 29, 2012. Candidacy exam at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Title: Weak KAM theory for an optimal switching problem. REFERENCES Prof. Diogo Gomes Instituto Superior Técnico [email protected] Prof. Alessio Figalli University of Texas at Austin [email protected]