Carlos Matheus

Brazilian mathematician

Carlos Matheus Silva Santos (born May 1, 1984 in Aracaju) is a Brazilian mathematician working in dynamical systems, analysis and geometry. He is research director at the CNRS, in Paris.^[1]

He earned his Ph.D. from the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in 2004 under the supervision of Marcelo Viana,^[2] at the age of 19.^[3]

Selected publications

with G. Forni, and A. Zorich: "Square-tiled cyclic covers", Journal of Modern Dynamics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 285–318 (2011).
with A. Avila, and J.-C. Yoccoz: "SL(2,R)-invariant probability measures on the moduli spaces of translation surfaces are regular", Geometric and Functional Analysis, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 1705–1729 (2013).
with M. Möller, and J.-C. Yoccoz: "A criterion for the simplicity of the Lyapunov spectrum of square-tiled surfaces", Inventiones mathematicae (2014).

References

^ Carlos Matheus' homepage at École polytechnique
^ Carlos Matheus at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Veja – Um sergipano de 19 anos é o mais jovem doutor em matemática do país (by Jerônimo Teixeira, in Portuguese)