Jacob Palis

| birth_place = Uberaba, Brazil | death_date = | death_place = | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | doctoral_advisor = Stephen Smale | doctoral_students = Artur Oscar Lopes
Ricardo Mañé
Welington de Melo
Carlos Gustavo Moreira
Enrique Pujals
Marcelo Viana | known_for = Dynamical systems
Palis conjecture | awards = Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología (2000)
Balzan Prize (2010)
Abdus Salam Medal (2015) }} __NOTOC__ Jacob Palis Jr. (born 15 March 1940) is a Brazilian mathematician and professor. Palis' research interests are mainly dynamical systems and differential equations. Some themes are global stability and hyperbolicity, bifurcations, attractors and chaotic systems. Provided by Wikipedia