Fernando Codá Marques
| Fernando Codá Marques | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 8, 1979 São Carlos, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Fields | Mathematics: geometric analysis, geometric topology |
| Institutions |
Princeton University IMPA |
| Alma mater |
Cornell University (Ph.D.) IMPA (M.S.) UFAL (B.S.) |
| Thesis | Existence and Compactness Theorems on Conformal Deformation of Metrics (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | José F. Escobar |
| Known for |
Willmore conjecture Freedman–He–Wang conjecture Min-Oo Conjecture Yau's conjecture Contributions to Almgren–Pitts min-max theory |
| Influences |
Richard Schoen Frederick Almgren, Jr. Manfredo P. do Carmo Elon Lages Lima |
| Notable awards |
Veblen Prize in Geometry (2016) ICTP Ramanujan Prize (2012) TWAS Prize (2012) |
| Spouse | Ana Maria Menezes |
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Website https://www.math.princeton.edu/directory/fernando-coda-marques |
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Fernando Codá dos Santos Cavalcanti Marques (born 8 October 1979) is a Brazilian mathematician working mainly in geometry, topology, partial differential equations and Morse theory. He is a professor at Princeton University. In 2012, together with André Neves, he proved the Willmore conjecture.
Fernando Codá Marques was born on 8 October 1979 in São Carlos and grew up in Maceió. His parents were both professors of engineering.
Codá Marques started as a student of civil engineering at the Federal University of Alagoas in 1996, but switched to mathematics after two years.
He obtained a master's degree from the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in 1999. Among his teachers at the IMPA were Manfredo do Carmo and Elon Lages Lima.
Following the advice of Manfredo do Carmo, Codá Marques went to Cornell University to learn geometric analysis from José F. Escobar, so that he could return and bring this area of research to Brazil. While still in Brazil, Codá Marques had been informed that Escobar was facing cancer and that he could maybe die before Codá Marques could complete his Ph.D with him. Despite this information, Codá Marques decided to keep the arrangement and became his student.
In 2001, Codá Marques was awarded Cornell's Battig Prize for graduate students, for "excellence and promise in mathematics". He obtained his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2003, under the supervision of José F. Escobar (thesis: Existence and Compactness Theorems on Conformal Deformation of Metrics).
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