Guatemalan mathematician; IMO 2008 bronze medalist (Guatemala's first IMO medal); MSc in Mathematics, IMPA
Guatemala; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (IMPA) · academic
Guatemalan mathematician. As a 5th-year bachillerato student at Colegio El Roble he competed for Guatemala at the 49th International Mathematical Olympiad (Madrid, July 2008), scoring 15 points (rank 238, 55.7%) and winning the bronze medal - the first IMO medal ever won by a Guatemalan. He was trained by fellow Guatemalan Pedro Morales, then a Baylor University mathematics doctoral student. He went on to study mathematics at IMPA (Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada) in Rio de Janeiro, completing a master's degree in 2017, and has worked in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.
Details
LocationGuatemala; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (IMPA)
UniversityIMPA (Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada)
mathematicscommutative algebraalgebraic geometryolympiad mathematicsolympiad problem solving
Education
Colegio El Roble
Bachillerato (5th year, 2008)
IMPA (Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada)
Mestrado em Matematica
AchievementsBronze medal, 49th International Mathematical Olympiad (Madrid, 2008), 15 points, rank 238 - Guatemala's first-ever IMO medal