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Pedro da Silva Peixoto
PhD candidate of Applied Mathematics at the
Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
About me
- Interested in numerical analysis of fluid dynamics and geophysical flows, and also biostatistics
- Ph.D. in progress in Applied Mathematics, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Univ. of Cambridge) for the Multiscale Numerics for the Atmosphere and Ocean Programme 2012
- Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2009
- Graduate Specialist in Measure, Analysis, Prediction and Modeling of the Sea Level, University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2007
- Bachelor Degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics, with honors, University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2005
- Full CV - Lattes Curriculum
- English CV - PDF
Main Academic Results
- Master Thesis, 2009 : Resolução numérica de EDPs utilizando ondaletas harmônicas - PDF
- Post Graduation Specialization Course Monograph, 2007 : Jason-1: Lendo os dados de altimetria por satélite para o nível do mar - PDF
- Bachlor's Degree Monograph, 2005 : O Uso de Modelos Econométricos em Empresas - PDF
Papers
- PS Peixoto, SRM Barros, 2012 : Analysis of grid imprinting on geodesic spherical icosahedral grids (accepted in Journal of Computational Physics) - Preprint ( INI, USP, DOI)
- SRM Barros, PS Peixoto, 2011: Computational aspects of harmonic wavelet Galerkin methods and an application to a precipitation front propagation model (Computers & Mathematics with Applications) - DOI
- Perciani CT, Peixoto PS, Dias WO, Kubrusly FS, Tanizaki MM, 2007 : Improved method to calculate the antibody avidity index (J Clin Lab Anal) - DOI
Biostatistics
- Boxplot for Microsoft Excel (2010)
- Boxplot tool using Peltier Tech Box and Whisker Chart Utility
- EXSTAT - Excel Statistics Calculator (2012)
- Pack of open source VBA statistical tools for Microsoft Excel
- Main tools are non-parametric inference tests such as Mann-Whitney / Kruskal-Wallis / Friedman / Wilcoxon
- Biostatistics Course (2012) - Biostatistics course presentation for post graduate students