Carlos Gustavo Tamm de Araújo Moreira (born 8 February 1973) is a Brazilian

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working on

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and

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. Moreira is currently a researcher at the

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(IMPA), where he goes by the nickname "Gugu". He is also a member of the Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad Commission, a fanatic fan of the Brazilian football team

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and a member of the

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(PCB). In October 2016, he achieved the mark of 5000 goals scored in his amateur football career. He maintains a record of his goals to show to the incredulous. Moreira obtained his Ph.D. from

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under the supervision of

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in 1993, at the age of 20. He is a member of the

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since 2008. In 2009 he was awarded the UMALCA Award for his contributions to mathematics. Moreira is the recipient of the

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in Mathematics in 2010. He was an

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of 2014 in

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, and a plenary speaker at the 2018

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Selected publications

*C. G. T. de A. Moreira and

Jean-Christophe Yoccoz Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (29 May 1957 – 3 September 2016) was a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems. Biography Yoccoz attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, during which time he was a sil ...

, "Stable intersections of regular Cantor sets with large Hausdorff dimensions," ''

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'' 154 (1), 45−96 (2001). https://doi.org/10.2307/3062110 *C. G. Moreira and

Artur Avila Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo (born 29 June 1979) is a Brazilian and naturalized French mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first La ...

, "Statistical properties of unimodal maps: the quadratic family," ''

'' 161 (2), 831−881 (2005). https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2005.161.831 * N. Alon, Y. Kohayakawa, C. Mauduit, C. G. Moreira, and V. Rödl, "Measures of pseudorandomness for finite sequences: typical values," ''

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'' 95 (3), 778−812 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/pdm027 *C. G. Moreira, "Geometric properties of the Markov and Lagrange spectra," ''

'' 188 (1), 145−170 (2018). https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2018.188.1.3

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