Aron Simis is a mathematician born in

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in 1942. He is a full professor at the

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, Brazil, and Class A research

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recipient from the Brazilian Research Council. He earned his

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from

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. He has previously held a full professorship at IMPA ( Instituto de Matemática Pura e Applicada) in

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, Brazil. He was president of the Brazilian Mathematical Society and member on several occasions of international commissions of the IMU (

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) and TWAS (

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). He has been director of three workshops in his field at the ICTP (

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). In Brazil he is a recipient of the National Medal for Scientific Merit at the order of ''Grã-Cruz'' and a member of the Brazilian Research Group in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (1997–2007). At large he is a

John Simon Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the art ...

and has been awarded other fellowships from the

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, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, and the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica. He is a member both of the

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and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (

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). His main research interests in mathematics include: main structures in

commutative algebra Commutative algebra, first known as ideal theory, is the branch of algebra that studies commutative rings, their ideals, and modules over such rings. Both algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory build on commutative algebra. Promi ...

; projective varieties in algebraic geometry; aspects of

algebraic combinatorics Algebraic combinatorics is an area of mathematics that employs methods of abstract algebra, notably group theory and representation theory, in various combinatorial contexts and, conversely, applies combinatorial techniques to problems in alg ...

; special graded algebras; foundations of Rees algebras; cremona and

birational map In mathematics, birational geometry is a field of algebraic geometry in which the goal is to determine when two algebraic varieties are isomorphic outside lower-dimensional subsets. This amounts to studying mappings that are given by rational ...

s; algebraic vector fields; differential methods. Simis is of

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n origin, his parents immigrated to Brazil from Romania in the 1920s.Entrevistas www.impa.br

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Simis, Aron Brazilian mathematicians 1942 births Living people Brazilian Jews Brazilian people of Romanian-Jewish descent Commanders of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil) Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada researchers Brazilian people of Romanian descent