Curriculum Vitae
João Nuno Mestre Fernandes da Silva
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- João Nuno Mestre Fernandes da Silva
Citation names
- Mestre, João Nuno
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2310-7515-B08B
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1217-9872
- Google Scholar ID
- uFbdqb0AAAAJ
Email addresses
- jnmestre@gmail.com (Professional)
Addresses
- Centro de Matemática da Universidade de Coimbra, Largo D. Dinis, 3000-143, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://sites.google.com/site/jnmestre/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Mathematics
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
| Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
| French | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| German | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2016/02/17
Concluded
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PhD (Doutoramento)
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
"Differentiable stacks: stratifications, measures and deformations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2010
Concluded
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Master's Degree in Mathematics (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Generalized complex and Poisson quasi-Nijenhuis geometries and their submanifolds." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2007
Concluded
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B.S. in Mathematics (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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17 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2020/12 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2020/10 - 2020/12 | Postdoc (Research) | Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil |
| Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil | ||
| 2017/09/08 - 2019/08/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Germany |
| 2016/09/01 - 2017/08/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2009/09/01 - 2010/09/01 | Tutor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2024/06/16 - 2024/06/29 | Deformation Cohomology of Holomorphic Lie Groupoids
Short Term Scientific Mission Fellow
Università degli Studi di Salerno Dipartimento di Matematica, Italy
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European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Concluded
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| 2024/03/05 - 2024/03/09 | Deformations of complex Lie groupoids
ITC Conference Grant Fellow
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
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European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Concluded
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| 2023/09/27 - 2023/10/14 | Homotopy inverse of the van Est map for representations up to homotopy
Short Term Scientific Mission Fellow
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Onderzoekinstituut voor Wiskunde Sterrenkunde en Deeltjes Fysica, Netherlands
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European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Concluded
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| 2020/10/01 - 2020/12/31 | Deformações de estruturas geométricas e grupóides de Lie
2019/20789-4
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Concluded
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| 2010/10/01 - 2014/09/30 | POISSON GEOMETRY
SFRH/BD/71257/2010
PhD Student Fellow
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Centro de Matemática da Universidade de Coimbra
UID/MAT/00324/2019
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2023/11/27 - 2026/10/13 | Cartan geometry, Lie, Integrable Systems, quantum group Theories for Applications (CaLISTA)
Researcher
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European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/09/05 | Multiplicative tensors - a cohomological point of view | XXXII International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2024/06/11 | Deformations of Lie Groupoids and Related Structures [mini-course, 4 sessions] | INdAM Workshop "Lie Groupoids, Lie Algebroids & Differentiable Stacks"
INdAM, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Napoli, Italy)
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| 2024/03/06 | Deformations of complex Lie groupoids | 59th Sophus Lie Seminar
Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg (Würzburg, Germany)
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| 2024/02/09 | Deformations of complex Lie groupoids | Geometry Day
Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/10/26 | Deformations of holomorphic groupoids | Dias de Geometria, Topologia e Aplicações
Centre of Mathematics - University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2023/10/03 | Deformations of holomorphic groupoids | Geometry Seminar
Radboud University Nijmegen (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
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| 2023/07/10 | Crash course on Lie algebroids [3 hours mini-course] | Lie groupoid and algebroid week in Coimbra II
Centre for Mathematics, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2023/06/16 | Deformations of holomorphic groupoids | Geometry and Topology Seminar
Centre for Mathematics of the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2023/02/28 | What are Lie algebroids and Lie algebroid connections? | Informal Geometry Seminar
Centre for Mathematics of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2023/02/22 | Transverse densities and modular classes of Lie groupoids | Geometry Seminar
Centre for Mathematics of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2022/09/27 | Deformations of Lie groupoids [4 hours mini-course] | Lie groupoid week in Coimbra
Centre for Mathematics, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2022/09/26 | Crash course on Lie groupoids [3 hours mini-course] | Lie groupoid week in Coimbra
Centre for Mathematics, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2022/08/16 | Deformations of symplectic and holomorphic groupoids | Thematic Session of Encontro Conjunto Brasil-Portugal em Matemática
Universidade Federal da Bahia (Salvador, Brazil)
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| 2022/08/03 | Deformations of Lie groupoids | Congreso de Matemática Capricornio
Universidad Arturo Prat (Iquique, Chile)
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| 2022/05/16 | Deformations of Lie groupoids | Deformation Theory Seminar
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, United States)
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| 2022/05/05 | Lie groupoid deformations, rigidity, and normal forms | One day Workshop in Differential Geometry
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2022/05/04 | Deformations of Lie groupoids | Topology Seminar
Purdue University (West Lafayette, United States)
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| 2022/04/22 | Espaços de alta dimensão como união de espaços menores - folheações e estabilidade | Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Matemática - ENEMath 2022
NEMAT/AAC - Núcleo de Estudantes de Matemática Associação Académica de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2022/01/11 | Deformations of symplectic groupoids | Lie Theory and Poisson Geometry
Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (Luminy, France)
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| 2021/06/24 | Algumas abordagens à geometria diferencial de espaços singulares | Seminário A5
University of São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
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| 2021/05/06 | Deformations of symplectic groupoids | Seminar on Geometry and Mathematical Physics
Universidad Católica del Norte and University of São Paulo (Antofagasta, Chile)
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| 2021/04/01 | What is a Lie groupoid and how do we use one in a theorem? | Methusalem Junior Seminar Pure Mathematics
KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
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| 2021/03/30 | The deformation cohomology of symplectic groupoids | Seminário Simplético do Rio
IMPA, PUC-RJ, UFF e UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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| 2021/03/12 | Some approaches to the differential geometry of singular spaces | Deformation Quantization Seminar
University of Würzburg (Würzburg, Germany)
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| 2021/02/19 | The deformation cohomology of a symplectic groupoid | Friday Fish Seminar
Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands)
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| 2021/02/17 | The deformation cohomology of a symplectic groupoid | Geometry Seminar
Centre for Mathematics of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2019/10/18 | Deformations of Lie groupoids | Geometry and Topology Seminar
Centre for Mathematics of the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2019/06/25 | Transverse measures and densities for Lie groupoids | Oberseminar Global Analysis and Operator Algebras
Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2019/04/26 | What is a Lie groupoid? | "What is...?" Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2019/03/26 | Deformations of symplectic groupoids | Geometry Seminar
University of Salerno (Fisciano, Italy)
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| 2019/03/13 | Deformations of symplectic groupoids | Seminar
Göttingen Mathematisches Institut (Göttingen, Germany)
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| 2018/12/18 | Lie groupoids and index theory - a brief outline | Dynamics, Geometry and Interactions on Tuesdays
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2018/12/12 | Deformations of symplectic groupoids | Poisson aan de Waal
Radboud University Nijmegen (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
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| 2018/11/22 | Relating dgLa and cdga: C* and its adjoint | Learning seminar on deformation theory
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2018/11/09 | Deformations of Lie groupoids | Geometry Seminar
KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
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| 2018/10/25 | Deformation functors - a modern approach | Learning seminar on deformation theory
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2018/06/19 | Deformations of Lie groupoids | Geometry Seminar
Radboud University Nijmegen (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
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| 2018/05/18 | BRST Cohomology | Learning seminar on quantum field theory and BV formalism
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2017/10/25 | Deformations of Lie groupoids | Higher Differential Geometry Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2017/09/06 | Deformations of symplectic groupoids | XXVI International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2017/05/07 | Measures on differentiable stacks | Gone Fishing 2017
Notre Dame University (Notre Dame, United States)
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| 2017/04/17 | Transverse measures and densities on Lie groupoids | Geometric Structures on Lie Groupoids
Banff International Research Station (Banff, Canada)
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| 2017/02/10 | The deformation cohomology of a Lie groupoid and applications to rigidity | Geometry Seminar
Centre for Mathematics of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2016/10/26 | Transverse measures and densities for Lie groupoids | Geometry Seminar
Centre for Mathematics of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2016/03/11 | Deformations of Lie groupoids | Gone Fishing 2016
University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, United States)
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| 2016/03/09 | Measures and densities on differentiable stacks | Poisson geometry seminar
University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, United States)
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| 2016/01/29 | Measures and densities on differentiable stacks | Geometry seminar
KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
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| 2015/11/19 | Transverse measures and densities: from leaf spaces to differentiable stacks | IME - USP Geometry Seminar
University of São Paulo, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (São Paulo, Brazil)
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| 2015/11/05 | Measures and densities on differentiable stacks | Poisson seminar
IMPA (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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| 2015/09/25 | Measures and volumes for differentiable stacks | Higher Geometric Structures along the Lower Rhine VI
Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands)
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| 2013/12/06 | Orbit types and Morita types | Friday Fish Seminar
Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands)
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| 2013/11/29 | On stratified spaces | Friday Fish Seminar
Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands)
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| 2013/10/15 | Deformations of Lie groupoids | Mathematical Physics Seminar
IMPA (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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| 2013/10/07 | Rigidity of compact Lie groupoids | Unicamp Geometry Seminar
State University of Campinas (Campinas, Brazil)
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| 2013/10/04 | Moser deformation argument for Lie groupoids | Genet-Roussel Seminar
University of São Paulo, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences (São Carlos, Brazil)
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| 2013/09/27 | Principal type theorem for proper Lie groupoids | IME - USP: Geometry Seminar
University of São Paulo, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (São Paulo, Brazil)
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| 2013/09/13 | The orbit space of a proper Lie groupoid | Colloquium
University of São Paulo, Department of Applied Mathematics (São Paulo, Brazil)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2025/01/31 - Current | Topological invariants and applications for geometric structures
Co-supervisor of Pedro Pessoa e Silva
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UC | UP PhD program in Mathematics (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal
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| 2024/04 - Current | Geometric Integrators for Jacobi Hamiltonian Equations
Co-supervisor of Gonçalo Oliveira
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UC | UP PhD program in Mathematics (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal
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| 2021/11/01 - Current | Deformations of morphisms of Lie groupoids and differentiable stacks
Supervisor of Sebastián Daza
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UC | UP PhD program in Mathematics (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal
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| 2021/11/01 - Current | Normal forms for Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids
Co-supervisor of Lennart Obster
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UC | UP PhD program in Mathematics (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/12/20 - Current | Summer JIM days (2025/07/07 - 2025/07/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2024/10/24 - Current | Learning seminar on the inverse function theorem of Nash and Moser (2024/10/24)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/08/02 - Current | GEMS - GEometry MeetingS (2024/02/09)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Análise Matemática Geometria e Sistemas Dinâmicos, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/07/12 - Current | Interactions of Poisson Geometry, Lie Theory and Symmetry (2025/06/30 - 2025/07/04)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Análise Matemática Geometria e Sistemas Dinâmicos, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/02/28 - Current | “Informal Geometry Seminar” series (2023/02/28)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/11/04 - 2024/09/05 | XXXII International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics (2024/09/02 - 2024/09/05)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2024/03/01 - 2024/06/07 | Lie Groupoid and Lie Algebroid Week in Coimbra III (2024/06/03 - 2024/06/07)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2024/04/04 - 2024/05/29 | Learning seminar on contact Hamiltonian systems (2024/04/04 - 2024/05/29)
Seminar
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/02/17 - 2023/07/14 | Lie groupoid and algebroid week in Coimbra II (2023/07/10 - 2023/07/14)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/02/13 - 2023/06/15 | Symplectic geometry 2023/2024 [semester-long course for PhD students} (2023/02/13 - 2023/06/15)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/02/17 - 2023/03/24 | Mini-course on Nash-Moser techniques in geometry, with applications to normal forms (2023/03/21 - 2023/03/24)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/01/05 - 2023/03/15 | One day workshop in Geometry and Topology (2023/03/15 - 2023/03/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2022/08/04 - 2022/09/30 | Lie groupoid week in Coimbra (2022/09/26 - 2022/09/30)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2018/08 - 2018/12 | Learning seminar on deformation theory (covering Lurie, Formal Moduli Problems) (2018/10/11 - 2018/12/20)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Germany |
| 2011 - 2012 | Poisson 2012: Poisson geometry in Mathematics and Physics (2012/07/23 - 2012/08/03)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/06/21 - 2023/07/14 | E-learning course (15 hours)
Other
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Equal.STEAM: Gender Dimension in Teaching, Research and Supervision
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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| 2022/06/20 - 2022/06/24 | Intensive training on PhD supervision excellence (5 days)
Workshop
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First PhD Supervision Excellence Training for Academic Staff
Univerzita Karlova, Czech Republic
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/07/19 | On the Local Structure of Poisson Manifolds
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Rodrigo de Oliveira Baptista (Master)
Universidade do Porto Departamento de Matemática, Portugal
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| 2023/07/04 | Mean-value property for functions on the Heisenberg group
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Miguel Nuno Pereira Santiago (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Matemática, Portugal
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| 2021/09/03 | G-structures on Orbifolds
(Thesis) Arguer
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Sebastián Camilo Daza Alfonso (Master)
Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Brazil
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Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2016 - 2017 | Problem Committee of the Portuguese Mathematical Olympiads
Member
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Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática, Portugal |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/11/06 - 2025/01/15 | Differentiable Manifolds | UC | UP PhD program in Mathematics (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/10/06 - 2024/02/05 | Differentiable Manifolds | UC | UP PhD program in Mathematics (Doutoramento) | Universidade do Porto Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/11/19 - 2023/11/19 | Mathematical Induction [Olympiad problem-solving class for high school students] | Delfos School | Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/05/13 - 2023/06/10 | Complex Numbers and Geometry [3 sessions of theory and olympiad problem-solving for high school students] | Delfos School | Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2023/02/11 - 2023/02/11 | The Basel problem [Theory and olympiad problem-solving class for high school students] | Delfos School | Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2022/10/03 - 2023/01/09 | Differentiable manifolds | UC | UP PhD program in Mathematics (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2022/01/22 - 2022/07/01 | Trigonometry [3 sessions of theory and olympiad problem-solving for high school students] | Delfos School | Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal |
| 2021/08/17 - 2021/12/17 | Topology of Manifolds | Graduate Program in Mathematics (Masters and PhD) (Graduado) | Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Brazil |
| 2016 - 2017 | Problem-solving training for the Portuguese teams participating in international mathematics competitions. | Delfos School | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
| 2006 | Merit award
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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| 2006 | Prize for the 3% best students of Mathematics
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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| 2005 | Prize for the 3% best students of Mathematics
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Other distinction
| 2004 | Honourable Mention, Ibero-American Mathematical Olympiad |
| 2004 | Silver medal, Portuguese Mathematical Olympiads
Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática, Portugal
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| 2001 | Bronze medal, Portuguese Mathematical Olympiads
Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática, Portugal
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