Sadao Massago
on DM (Departement of Mathematics) - UFSCar (Federal University of São Carlos).
- Academic formation
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- ungraduated (1992) in DMA (Mathematical Departament) of UEM (Maringá States University).
- master in mathematical science (1995) on ICMC - USP (Institute of Mathematical and computational Science of São Carlos - São Paulo States University). The advaisor is Washingtom Marar and the dissertation is "Brieskorn Manifolds and Pseudo-homogeneous polinomial" (portuguese)
- Ph D. in mathematical science (2000) on ICMC - USP (Institute of Mathematical and Computational Science of São Carlos - São Paulo States University). The advaisor is Professor Osamu Saeki and co-advaisor is Professor Oziride Manzoli Neto.The thesis is "Open book structures on (n-1)-connected (2n+1)-manifolds" (portuguese). English article based on this thesis is here.
- Research Interests
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- Algebraic Topology
- Knot theory
- Operations Research (Applied Mathematic).
- For publications, see the Tutorial, notes, softwares, etc.
- Desktop, some softwares and programming language
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- Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, and Pascal. Mostly using C++ on GCC compiler, with Geany as IDE.
- Scripting language: PHP and Python. Using geany as IDE.
- Office Suite: Libre Office.
- LaTeX: TeXStudio (fork of TeXMaker), LyX (WYSIWYG like LaTeX editor -- LyX is most used). jPDFTWeak to finalize/manage PDF material, and jabref (graphical BibTeX file editor).
- Graphics: Inkscape (vector based graphics editor) and Gimp (image editor).
- Multimedia: VideoLan (movie player), AVIDemux (video editor), OpenShot (video editor), DVD Styler (movie DVD maker).
- Internet: Mozilla Firefox, Evolution (mail client), pidgin (multiprotocol chat), skype (VoIP), KompoZer & BlueGriffon (HTML editor), bluefish (HTML/PHP source editor), LifeRea (online news reader for linux).
- Mathematical Software: GNU Octave (MatLab clone), maxima (computer algebra) , GeoGebra (dynamic geometry), MathMod (successor of k3Dsurf to plot surfaces), SciDAVis (data analysis and visualization), and gnuplot (plotting tools).
- Maintenance: gparted (disk partition editor for linux), testdisk/photorec (recovery data/photo), etc contained on System Rescue CD.
- Others: virtualbox (virtual machine), Brasero (CD/DVD software for linux only), PDF Shuffler (GUI to manage PDF on linux), xournal (linux/win notetaking, but can write over PDF -- If not using linux/win, try the jarnal).
- Other freeware that recommend (some are for linux only)
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- System Rescue CD is linux boot CD with maintainnence/rescue usefull for all systems.
- gscan2pdf (linux only) convert scanned image set to pdf/djvu converter.
- Audacity is sound editor.
- scribus for publishng material.
- imagination (linux only) and PhotoFilmStrip (cross platform) are easy to use, nice slideshow maker.
- dvd95 is DVD movie backup utility for linux, like k9copy/k9coy-reloaded.
- DeVeDe is easy to use, movie DVD maker.
- qDVDauthor (linux only) for movie DVD authoring.
- winff GUI for FFMPEG to convert movies.
- TV time (linux only) Watch TV (require TV capture card).
- hugin to produce panorama (photo) and perspective correction.
- wine to run windows applications on intel linux. It help person that insist in use windows only software.
- Code::Blocks is cross platform C/C++ programming IDE.
- NetBeans is cross platform Java Programming IDE.
- Lazarus is freepascal based, cross platform Borland Delphi clone (cloned libs and IDE).
- qemu is virtual machine,
- Freewares that recommend for windows users
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- Above apps, that I use or recommed, that are not marked as linux.
- PortableApps run from USB disk/pendrive. The site contains set of freewares ported to portableapps. PortableSuite and almost of their apps run on linux using wine.
- AVG free is antivirus.
- 7-zip & PeaZip are archieve manager. Best replacement for winzip/winrar.
- infrarecorder and cdrtfe are CD/DVD recorder,
- sumatraPDF is light weight PDF viewer with PDF sync support.
- pdfcreator is virtual printer to produce PDF.
- ThunderBird is cross platform mail client.
- Cornice is ACDSee like image viewer.
- FileZilla is cross platform file transfer client). Support resume for large files.
- CygWin (linux layer emulation for windows) and X Ming (X server for windows). By CygWin, can install and use large set of linux applications in easy way. Using X Ming, will use unix/linux graphicall applications from local CygWin or remote machines.