Prof. Ricardo Miranda Martins

Associate Professor, IMECC/Unicamp

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• Director of the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing at Unicamp (2022-2026). 
• Colunista do Noticiário da Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática (Ensino Universitário da Matemática)

Teaching/Disciplinas

• 2025-1 MA311 – Cálculo III (turmas I, J e %)
• Youtube: MA141 – Geometria Analítica e Vetores
• Youtube: MCA003 – Cálculo III na Univesp: aula de revisão
• Semestres anteriores

Research/Publications

My research areas: Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems (structural stability, limit cycles, invariant tori), Reversible-Equivariant Systems, Filippov Systems, Ricci Flow on homogeneous manifolds.

Published papers

1. Ricardo Miranda Martins, Douglas D. Novaes and Joyce A. Casimiro, Poincaré-Hopf Theorem for Filippov vector fields on 2-dimensional compact manifolds. Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, vol. 23, pp. 1770-1796, 2024.
2. Ricardo Miranda Martins and Mayara D. A. Caldas, Results about structural stability and the existence of limit cycles for piecewise smooth linear differential equations separated by the unit circle. Stability and Bifurcation – Memorial Issue Dedicated to Jorge Sotomayor, São Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences, vol. 18, pp. 1305-1341, 2024
3. Ricardo Miranda Martins and Tiago M. P. de Abreu, Estimates for the number of limit cycles in discontinuous generalized Liénard equations. Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems, vol. 23, article number 187, 2024.
4. Leonardo Cavenagui, Lino Grama and Ricardo Miranda Martins, On the dynamics of positively curved metrics on SU(3)/T2 under the homogeneous Ricci flow. Workshop on Geometric Structures and Moduli Spaces, Matemática Contemporânea, vol. 60, pp. 3–30, 2024.
5. Lino Grama, Ricardo Miranda Martins, Mauro Patrão, Lucas Seco and Llohann D. Sperança, The Projected Homogeneous Ricci Flow and its Collapses with an Application to Flag Manifolds. Monatshefte für Mathematik, vol. 199, pp. 483–510, 2022.
6. Guilherme Tavares da Silva and Ricardo Miranda Martins, Dynamics and Stability of Non-Smooth Dynamical Systems with Two Switches. Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 108, pp. 3157-3184, 2022.
7. Kamila da Silva Andrade, Ricardo Miranda Martins, Mike R. Jeffrey and Marco Antonio Teixeira, Homoclinic boundary-saddle bifurcations in nonsmooth vector fields. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 32, iss. 04, pp. 2230009, 2022.
8. Matheus Manzatto, Douglas Duarte Novaes and Ricardo Miranda Martins, A note on Vishik’s normal form. Journal of Differential Equations, vol. 281, pp. 442-458, 2021.
9. Mahendra Panthee, Diego Sebastian Ledesma and Ricardo Miranda Martins, Experiências no ensino de matemática durante o ensino remoto emergencial na Unicamp. Professor de Matemática Online, vol. 9, pp. 174-186, 2021.
10. Jeroen S. W. Lamb, Maurício Lima, Ricardo Miranda Martins, Marco Antonio Teixeira and J. Yang, On the hamiltonian structure of normal forms at elliptic equilibria of reversible vector fields in $R^4$. Journal of Differential Equations, vol. 269, pp. 11366-11395, 2020.
11. Ricardo Miranda Martins and Durval J. Tonon, The chaotic behavior of piecewise smooth differential equations on two dimensional torus and sphere. Dynamical Systems: An International Journal, vol. 34, pp. 356-373, 2019.
12. Kamila da Silva Andrade, Ricardo Miranda Martins, Mike R. Jeffrey and Marco Antonio Teixeira, On the Dulac’s Problem for Piecewise Analytic Vector Fields. Journal of Differential Equations, vol. 266, pp. 2259-2273, 2019.
13. Ricardo Miranda Martins, Durval J. Tonon and Jaume Llibre, Limit cycles of piecewise smooth differential equations on two dimensional torus. Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, vol. 30, pp. 1011–1027, 2018.
14. Ricardo Miranda Martins and Otávio Gomide, Limit cycles for quadratic and cubic planar differential equations under polynomial perturbations of small degree. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, vol. 37, pp. 3353-3386, 2017.
15. Ricardo Miranda Martins and Lino Grama, A brief survey on the Ricci flow in homogeneous manifolds. São Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences, vol. 9, pp. 37-52, 2015.
16. Ricardo Miranda Martins and Marco Antonio Teixeira, Minimal sets in double-perturbed differential equations. Houston Journal of Mathematics, vol. 41, pp. 491–512, 2015.
17. Ricardo Miranda Martins, Regilene D. S. Oliveira and Ana Cristina Mereu, An estimative for the number of limit cycles in a Liénard-like perturbation of a quadratic non-linear center. Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 79, pp. 185–194, 2015.
18. Ricardo Miranda Martins and Ana Cristina Mereu, Limit cycles in discontinuous classical Lienard equations. Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, vol. 20, pp. 67–73, 2014.
19. Ricardo Miranda Martins, Formal Equivalence Between Normal Forms of Reversible and Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems. Communications in Pure and Applied Analysis, vol. 13, iss. 2, pp. 703–703, 2014.
20. Anderson Luis Albuquerque Araújo and Ricardo Miranda Martins, Existence of periodic solutions for a nonautonomous differential equation. Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society Simon Stevin, vol. 19, pp. 305–310, 2012.
21. Lino Grama and Ricardo Miranda Martins, Global behavior of the Ricci flow on homogeneous manifolds with two isotropy summands. Indagationes Mathematicae, vol. 23, pp. 95–104, 2012.
22. Jaume Llibre, Ricardo Miranda Martins and Marco Antonio Teixeira, On the birth of minimal sets for perturbed reversible vector fields. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Series A, vol. 31, iss. 3, pp. 763–777, 2011.
23. Ricardo Miranda Martins and Marco Antonio Teixeira, Reversible-equivariant systems and matricial equations. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, vol. 83, iss. 2, pp. 375–390, 2011.
24. Ricardo Miranda Martins and Marco Antonio Teixeira, On the Similarity of Hamiltonian and Reversible Vector Fields in 4D. Communications in Pure and Applied Analysis, vol. 108, iss. 4, pp. 1257–1266, 2011.
25. Alain Jacquemard and Ricardo Miranda Martins, Solução de sistemas algébricos e aplicações em teoria de singularidades. Revista Matemática Universitária, vol. 47, pp. 31-39, 2010.
26. Jaume Llibre, Ricardo Miranda Martins and Marco Antonio Teixeira, Periodic orbits, invariant tori and cylinders of Hamiltonian systems near integrable ones having a return map equal to the identity. J. Math. Phys., vol. 51, pp. 082704, 2010.
27. Lino Grama and Ricardo Miranda Martins, The Ricci flow of left invariant metrics on full flag manifold SU(3)/T from a dynamical systems point of view. Bull. Sci. math., vol. 135, iss. 5, pp. 463 – 469, 2009.

Other publications

• Ricardo Miranda Martins, Setembro Amarelo: o que nós matemáticos temos com isso? Noticiário da Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática 35, setembro de 2021.
• Ricardo Miranda Martins, Equações Diferenciais: Reversibilidade e Bifurcações. Tese de Doutorado, Unicamp, 2011.
• Ricardo Miranda Martins, A Estrutura Hamiltoniana dos Campos Reversíveis em 4D. Dissertação de Mestrado, Unicamp, 2008.
• Ricardo Miranda Martins, Algoritmos para Álgebras Associativas e de Lie. Monografia para II Jornadas de Iniciação Científica do IMPA, 2005.
• Tutorial do MuPAD Light e Tutorial para animações no MuPAD, Projeto feito na graduação, orientado pela Profa. Lana Mara Rodrigues (2003).

More info (portuguese)

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• ReME – Repositório de Metodologias para o Ensino
• Lista de leitura: curadoria/coleção de artigos históricos, materiais acadêmicos, etc.
• Conselhos sobre cartas de recomendação
• Dicas sobre como estudar matemática
• Dicas sobre como procurar uma iniciação científica
• What’s not on my CV: I am mineiro, botafoguense, married and with two children.

Professional address

IMECC/Unicamp – main building (office #335)
R. Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 651
Cidade Universitária
Campinas/SP
Brazil 13083-859

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