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{{about|a mathematic professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia|other uses|University of British Columbia (UBC)}}
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{{Short description|Professor, mathematician in UBC}}
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'''Brian Marcus''' is a mathematician, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he is the site director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS),<ref name="pims3">{{cite web|url=https://www.pims.math.ca/pims-glance/board-directors|title=PIMS Board of Directors|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref> and a fellow of the AMS.<ref name="ams">{{cite web|url=http://ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/Fell-list-2018.pdf|title=2018 Fellows of the AMS|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref> He was the department head of mathematics at UBC from 2002 to 2007<ref name="head">{{cite web|url=https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~dilcher/chairs08/Programs/Agenda_2005.pdf|title=Annual Canadian meeting of chairs|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref> and the deputy director of Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences from 2006 to 2008.<ref name="pims">{{cite web|url=https://www.pims.math.ca/news/brian-marcus-appointed-interim-deputy-director-pims|title=Brian Marcus Appointed Interim Deputy Director of PIMS|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref>

==Education and academic career==
Marcus earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of California at Berkley, under the supervision of Rufus Bowen.<ref name="mathgenb">{{cite web|url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=23188|title=Geneaology of Rufus Bowen|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref> He then worked as an IBM Watson postdoctoral fellow, an associate professor of mathematics at UNC Chapel Hill and a research staff member at IBM Research – Almaden. Also, he held visiting associate professor positions at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and Stanford University.<ref name="pims"/> From 2016 to 2018, he was the deputy director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences,<ref name="pims"></ref> where currently he is the UBC site director.<ref name="pims2">{{cite web|url=https://www.pims.math.ca/pims-glance/board-directors|title=PIMS Board of Directors|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref> Also, he is one the representatives of the Pacific Rim Mathematical Association.<ref name="prima">{{cite web|url=https://primamath.org/prima-representatives|title=PRIMA Representatives|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref>

His main areas of research are ergodic theory, symbolic dynamics and information theory. Marcus has written over seventy research papers and were also published in the mathematics journals including Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones Mathematicae and Journal of the AMS. His collaborators include, Wolfgang Krieger, Roy Adler, Rufus Bowen, Dominique Perrin, Jack Wolf, and Sheldon Newhouse,<ref name="pub">{{cite web|url=http://www.math.ubc.ca/~marcus/pubsbhm.pdf|title=Publication list of Brian Marcus|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref> and he has supervised ten Ph.D. students.<ref name="mathgen">{{cite web|url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=22257|title=Geneaology of Brian Marcus|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref>
Also, he is one of the authors of the book ''An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding'',<ref name="book">{{cite web|url=
https://sites.math.washington.edu/SymbolicDynamics/|title=Symbolic Dynamics book|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref> and the Scholarpedia article on Symbolic dynamics.<ref name="scholar">{{cite web|url=
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Symbolic_dynamics|title=Scholarpedia: Symbolic Dynamics|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref>

In 1993, Marcus was awarded the Leonard J. Abraham Prize Paper award of the IEEE.<ref name="IEEE">{{cite web|url=https://www.comsoc.org/about/awards/paper-awards/ieee-communications-society-leonard-g-abraham-prize|title=Leonard G. Abraham Prize=October 18 15, 2019}}</ref> On 2018, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.<ref name="ams"></ref>

==Books==
* {{cite book |last= |first= |date= |title=An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding |url=https://books.google.co.in/books/about/An_Introduction_to_Symbolic_Dynamics_and.html?id=qSkNs3jr-DIC&redir_esc=y |location= |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page= |isbn=9780521559003 |year=1995}}


==References==
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==Category==
[[Category:University of British Columbia faculty]]
[[Category:Fellows of the American Mathematical Society]]