EMALCA – DOURADOS
REPORT OF ACTIVITIES
The EMALCA – Escola de Matemática da América Latina e Caribe took
place at Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Tecnlologia (FACET) in Universidade
Federal da Grande Dourados - UFGD, in the city of Dourados - Brazil, from 19
to 30 july 2010.
ORGANIZATION:
• Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados – UFGD
• União Matemática da América Latina e o Caribe – UMALCA
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
• Christian Schaerer – Universidade Nacional de Assunção/Paraguai
• Lino Sanabria – Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados
• Marcelo Viana – Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
• Vanderlei Horita – Universidade Estadual Paulista
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
• Alessandra Querino da Silva – UFGD
• Elisabete Sousa Freitas – UFMS
• Elizabeth Matos Rocha – UFGD
• Lino Sanabria – UFGD (Local Coordinator)
• Sergio Rodrigues – UFGD
• Sidnei Azevedo de Souza – UFGD
FINANCIAL SUPPORT:
• CIMPA
• CAPES – Brazil
• CNPq – Brazil
• INCT Mat – Brazil
COURSES OFFERED:
• Introduction to Differential Geometry – Aldo Portela – Uruguay
• Introduction to Otimization – Roberto Andreani – Brazil
• Introduction to Number Theory and Criptography – José Gilvan de
Oliveira/Elisabete Sousa Freitas - Brazil
Teachers of courses dedicated a lot of attention and have always been
available to students to complement the training of those who might not
have access to certain content in their former education.
LECTURES:
Besides the above courses, the school offered eight lectures open to the
general public to disseminate the area of Mathematics. Students at EMALCA
had the opportunity to have contact with current research topics, giving them
a scientific interest. These were:
Solución de problemas de ingeniería utilizando métodos numéricos Antonio Aquino (UNA).
Ordens de contato entre aplicações - Claudemir Aniz (UFMS).
Roda quadrada sem solavanco - Claudio Buzzi (UNESP).
Novas perspectivas de controle para métodos numéricos - Christian
Schaerer (UNA).
O paradoxo de Banach-Tarski - Gugu (IMPA).
Conjuntos de Cantor e teoria dos números - Gugu (IMPA).
Dinâmica, geometria e números - Ronaldo Garcia (UFG).
Pós-graduação em matemática no Brasil - Vanderlei Horita (UNESP).
WORKING GROUPS:
Working groups were organized to discuss mathematical problems,
they were coordinated by teachers of the courses, aiming to encourage and
promote the area of Mathematics in the region.
AUDIENCE:
The school was attended by 54 students in the courses offered, from:
• 16 local;
• 25 from other parts of Brazil:
o 1 from Goiás
o 9 from Mato Grosso,
o 12 from Mato Grosso do Sul,
o 3 from Pará; and
•
13 foreign studants:
o 12 from Paraguay, and
o 1 from Perú.
The lectures were open to the general public and, apart from students,
had the participation of a number of university professors and teaching basic
from Dourados.
GRANTS FROM CIMPA:
Eight students had financial support from CIMPA for living expanses.
Student
Ana Carolina Garcia
Davidson Freitas Nogueira
Julian Cáceres Sánchez
Juliana Alves de Souza
Leandro Aparecido Sangalli
Mac Gregor Jamanca Carbajal
Number of
per diems
5
5
5
5
5
5
Value
of Total amount
per diem
55 euros
275 euros
55 euros
275 euros
55 euros
275 euros
55 euros
275 euros
55 euros
275 euros
55 euros
275 euros
Roberto Andrés Viveros Vera
Tiago Josué Nunes
5
5
55 euros
55 euros
275 euros
275 euros
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS:
The choice of an institution of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul for
hosting this EMALCA was motivated by locating in a region whose stage of
development in the area of Mathematics, Probability and Statistics is at a
level of development significantly lower when compared with Brazil,
particularly in the southeastern region of Brazil.
The school has brought great benefits to students of the region,
through contact with mathematical contents rarely developed in
undergraduate courses in the region, mainly devoted to the education.
Students also had the opportunity to exchange experiences with colleagues
from academic institutions with very different profiles.
The academic environment created during the two weeks of the
school served as an incentive for faculty to continue the improvement in
academic and scientific training of its students and its own academic degrees.
It was suggested another school of EMALCA in 2013 at Dourados.
At the end of the school was made a collection of opinion through
forms, whose completion was voluntary and anonymous. The school was
evaluated very positively. The courses were considered by the students as
good and the difficulty level was on average four, in a growing range 1-5.
Most suggested that the school had a longer time than two weeks. There was
great demand for future actions in the region were offered training in basic
disciplines of higher education, as General Topology, Real Analysis,
Functional Analysis and Probability. This reinforces the impression that the
stage which is the area of Mathematics in the region is at an early stage of
development.
August 31, 2010.
Vanderlei Horita