Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada

The Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA; English: National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) is the foremost research and educational institution of Brazil in mathematics. It is in the city of Rio de Janeiro. It was formerly known simply as Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada; hence, IMPA is its official abbreviation.

 People from IMPA 
Artur Avila, a 2014 Fields Medalist, is a researcher at IMPA and received his Ph.D there. Among its researchers also are/were Jacob Palis, Elon Lages Lima, Maurício Peixoto, Manfredo do Carmo, Marcelo Viana, Welington de Melo, Enrique Pujals, Harold Rosenberg, Marcos Dajczer, Carlos Gustavo Moreira, Fernando Codá Marques, César Camacho, Arnaldo Garcia, Alfredo Noel Iusem, Karl-Otto Stöhr, Robert Morris, and Carolina Araujo.
NºDirectorPeriod1Lélio Gama1952–19662Lindolpho de Carvalho Dias1966–19693Elon Lages Lima1969–19714Lindolpho de Carvalho Dias1971–19785Elon Lages Lima1978–19796Lindolpho de Carvalho Dias1979–19897Elon Lages Lima1989–19938Jacob Palis1993–20039César Camacho2003–201510Marcelo Viana2015-

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Category:Mathematical societies