Belmiro Galo da Silva

Lecturer

Dr. Galo earned his PhD from University of Rochester and from University of São Paulo in August 2021. His research interests include Harmonic Analysis, Geometric Measure Theory, Analytic Combinatorics and One-Dimensional Dynamics. His favorite subjects are "Falconer-type problems" and "Kneading Maps". The Falconer distance problems ask how large does the Hausdorff dimension of a compact set need to be to ensure the Lebesgue measure of the distance set. The Kneading theory is a tool, developed by John Milnor and William Thurston, for studying the topological dynamics of functions on an interval. The theory is most easily understood in the special case of unimodal maps.Dr. Galo is committed to being an effective, inspiring and engaging teacher. He held teaching appointments at Colgate University (2021-2022) and University of Rochester (2018-2021). He earned an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in March 2020 from University of Rochester.