Curriculum Vitæ

 

 

Full name

 

José Ferreira Alves


Citizenship

 

Portuguese


Academic degrees

 

Ph. D. (Mathematics), IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, 1997.
   
Supervisor: Marcelo Viana.

 

M. Sc. (Pure Mathematics), University of Porto, 1992.
   
Supervisors: Maria Carvalho & Marcelo Viana.

 

B. Sc. (Pure Mathematics), University of Porto, 1990.


Present position

 

Professor (Associado com Agregação) at the Department of Pure Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto.


Research interests

 

Systems & Smooth Ergodic Theory:  physical measures, stochastic stability and decay of correlations for partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms and non-uniformly expanding maps.


Publications
 

Master students

 

Noélia Sofia Soares.

Dissertation: Teoremas Ergódicos

 

Maria de Fátima Pacheco.

Dissertation: Funções de variação limitada

 

Helder Soares Vilarinho

Dissertation: Torres markovianas, decaimento de correlações e transformações expansoras.

 

Raquel Nunes

Dissertation: Geometria fractal e aplicações.

 

 

PhD students

 

Jorge Milhazes Freitas, since 2004 (joint with Maria Carvalho)

 

Carlas Lopes Dias, since 2005.

 

Helder Soares Vilarinho, since 2005.

 


Selected talks

 

 

2006     

           Randomness And Hyperbolicity In Dynamical Systems, Budapest, Hungary.

International Congress On Mathematical Physics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Matfest, Maceió, Brazil

School And Workshop On Dynamical Systems, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

2005     

           

Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, Penn State University, USA.

IV Workshop On Dynamical Systems, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

Congresso Internacional de Sistemas Dinâmicos, Angra do Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Maryland-Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, College Park, USA.

Workshop em Dinâmica Caótica e Geometria Diferencial, UFBA, Salvador, Brazil.

Imperial College Seminar, London, UK.

 

2004

Summer School and Conference on Dynamical Systems, ICTP, Trieste, Italy.

Forum Internacional de Investigadores Portugueses, Coimbra, Portugal.

Workshop on Multidimensional Non-Uniformly Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems, CIRM, Luminy, France.

Dynamical Systems Seminar, UFBA, Salvador, Brazil.

Workshop de Geometria de Subvariedades e Dinâmica Caótica, Maceió, Brazil.

 

2003

International Workshop on Robustness and Partial Hyperbolicity, Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Equadiff 2003, Hasselt, Belgium.

Dynamical Systems Seminar, UFBA, Salvador, Brazil.

Ergodic Theory Seminar, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

2002

Workshop on Dynamics and Randomness, Santiago, Chile.

Dynamical Systems Seminar, USP-São Carlos, Brazil.

International Conference on Dynamical Methods for Differential Equations, Medina del Campo, Spain.

Dynamical Systems Seminar, UFBA, Brazil.

Encontro Nacional da SPM, Coimbra, Portugal
Workshop: Dinâmica Caótica Real e Conservativa, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

   

2001

Dynamical Systems Seminar, UFBA, Brazil.
21st Brazilian Colloquium of Mathematics, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Concepts and Techniques in Smooth Ergodic Theory, Imperial College, UK.
Dynamical Systems Seminar, Imperial College, UK.
Analysis Seminar, Centre for Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

   

2000

Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, Penn State University, USA.
Dynamical Systems Seminar, University of Maryland, USA.
International Conference on Dynamical Systems, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, Kennesaw State University, USA.
International Conference on Dynamical Systems, University of Porto, Portugal.
Analysis, Geometry and Dynamical Systems Seminar, IST, Lisbon, Portugal.
Dynamical Systems Seminar, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.

    

1999

Dynamical Systems Seminar, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dynamical Systems Seminar, University of Oviedo, Spain.
Probability and Physics of Disordered Systems, Budapest, Hungary.
Workshop on Smooth Ergodic Theory, IST, Lisbon, Portugal.

   

1998

Workshop on Dynamical Systems, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
3th Meeting of the Project Praxis Fisica-Matematica, Porto, Portugal.
The KTH/IMPA Conference on Dynamical Systems, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.
Analysis, Geometry and Dynamical Systems Seminar, IST, Lisbon, Portugal.

   

1997

Ergodic Theory Seminar, Univ. Bourgogne, France.
4th Quadriennal International Conference on Dynamical Systems, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
21st Brazilian Colloquium of Mathematics, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
International Congress on Dynamical Systems
, CIC, Cuernavaca , Mexico.
Dynamical Systems Seminar, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.