Field-Of-Study: Mathematics

Manfredo P. do Carmo, who was born in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil, in 1928, obtained his Engineering degree at the University of Recife, Brazil, and his Ph.D. in 1963 at the University of California, Berkeley.  He has been Professor and Research Scientist at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro since 1966.  Previously

Born in Olinda, Brazil, Fernando Cardoso studied electrical engineering at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), earning a B.S. degree in 1962. With support from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), he then continued his education at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where he received both a master’s degree