Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada

The Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA; English: National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) is the foremost research and educational institution of Brazil in mathematics. It is in the city of Rio de Janeiro. It was formerly known simply as Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada; hence, IMPA is its official abbreviation.

IMPA

Type	Public
Established	1952[1]
Budget	R$222 million[2]
Director	Marcelo Viana
Academic staff	130 faculty members and researchers (2018–2019)[3]
Students	190 graduate students (2018–2019)
Location	Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
Campus	Urban
Website	impa.br (English)

People from IMPA

Artur Avila, a 2014 Fields Medalist, is a researcher at IMPA and received his Ph.D there.^[4] Among its researchers also are/were Jacob Palis, Elon Lages Lima, Maurício Peixoto, Manfredo do Carmo, Marcelo Viana, Welington de Melo, Enrique Pujals, Harold Rosenberg, Marcos Dajczer, Carlos Gustavo Moreira, Fernando Codá Marques, César Camacho, Arnaldo Garcia, Alfredo Noel Iusem, Karl-Otto Stöhr, Robert Morris, and Carolina Araujo.^[5]

Nº	Director	Period
1	Lélio Gama	1952–1966
2	Lindolpho de Carvalho Dias	1966–1969
3	Elon Lages Lima	1969–1971
4	Lindolpho de Carvalho Dias	1971–1978
5	Elon Lages Lima	1978–1979
6	Lindolpho de Carvalho Dias	1979–1989
7	Elon Lages Lima	1989–1993
8	Jacob Palis	1993–2003
9	César Camacho	2003–2015
10	Marcelo Viana	2015-