Early days
My undergraduate years begun in 1994. I studied Mathematics at Instituto de Matemática e Estatística of Universidade de São Paulo from March, 1994 to July 1999. I was (and am) an average student. Some say that I could do much more but, sincerely, I don't think so. At this time I met my girlfriend who became my actual and forever wife. She is a mathematician too.
Master Degree
Just after my graduation I started my Master in Mathematics program with Plinio Simões as my advisor (he was my professor in the first calculus course). We studied minimal surfaces in R3 from 1995 to 1999. So it was natural to continue this work.
Plinio had a student, Valério Ramos Batista, that went to Germany to get his PhD with Hermann Karcher as advisor. He came back to Brasil in 2001 and we started some seminars on the construction of minimal surfaces via Weierstrass representation data and Schwarz simmetry principles. I learned a little about Riemann surfaces and elliptic functions. After four years, October 2003 more precisely (remember, I'm an average student), I got my Master degree based on papers of M. Wolgemuth and V. Batista. You may find a copy of this work in the links section at the right side.
I had support from CAPES from March 2000 to March 2002. Since then I work teaching mathematics in some private schools...
PhD
I started my PhD program in March 2004. I coursed "Medida e Integração" (measure theory) and "Superfícies de Riemman" (Riemann surfaces) in the first semester getting a B and an A, respectively. Following this I had "Variedades diferenciáveis e Gupos de Lie" (manifolds and Lie groups) and "Análise Funcional" (functional analysis), getting a B on both. This was the second semester of 2004, where I also got married.
In 2005, there was the time for "Topologia Algébrica" (algebraic topology) and "Tópicos de Ágebra" (topics in algebra). I got an A in the first and had to give up to the second due to the classes I had to teach... This was the first down in my PhD... In the second semester I attended to "Equações diferenciais parciais" (partial differential equations), getting a B.
In 2006 I started seminars with my current advisor and her former student Bárbara Corominas Valério to get into the theory of isometric immersions. The first seminars were very good and I learned a lot, but I don't what's wrong with me (maybe many classes to teach) and I just give up that seminars. I also had to course "Tópicos de Álgebra" and this time I got an A.
In July I went to the "XIV Escola de Geometria Diferencial", a very important meeting of Differential Geometry in Brazil. In the second semester I had to teach some new disciplines and the seminars with my advisor didn't achieve the desired success...
In 2007 the most beautiful thing came to Earth: my daugther Leticia. At university my advisor taugth a course called "Imersões Isométricas" (Isometric Immersions). This course was very interesting and I could learn a lot on it. We had seminars and I got an A. The second semester was very messy to me, I got a new place to teach and there were many classes (10 different subjects) and many tests to apply. In terms of my PhD it was not a productive semester at all.
Well, new year, new promises. I really would like to have time to end up this PhD. Best wishes on me, please...
In 2008 I had to ask to make my qualification exam later on, and I did it in July, 29th. Everything ran fine.
In 2009 the work carries on and I send a version of my PhD thesis for appreciation in March, 6th. I made up some fixes in that version and we had the final version presented to the judging commetee in June, 16th. They made a few comments on some results that we got and I got my graduation! Thanks for eveyone who supported me.