Brian Marcus (professor)

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EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
OccupationProfessor, mathematician
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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),[1] and a fellow of the AMS.[2] He was the department head of mathematics at UBC from 2002 to 2007[3] and the deputy director of Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences from 2006 to 2008.[4]

Education and academic career

Marcus earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of California at Berkley, under the supervision of Rufus Bowen.[5] 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.[4] From 2016 to 2018, he was the deputy director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences,[4] where currently he is the UBC site director.[6] Also, he is one the representatives of the Pacific Rim Mathematical Association.[7]

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,[8] and he has supervised ten Ph.D. students.[9] Also, he is one of the authors of the book An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding,[10] and the Scholarpedia article on Symbolic dynamics.[11]

In 1993, Marcus was awarded the Leonard J. Abraham Prize Paper award of the IEEE.[12] On 2018, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]

Books

  • An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding. Cambridge University Press. 1995. ISBN 9780521559003.


References

  1. "PIMS Board of Directors". Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "2018 Fellows of the AMS" (PDF). Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  3. "Annual Canadian meeting of chairs" (PDF). Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Brian Marcus Appointed Interim Deputy Director of PIMS". Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  5. "Geneaology of Rufus Bowen". Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  6. "PIMS Board of Directors". Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  7. "PRIMA Representatives". Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  8. "Publication list of Brian Marcus" (PDF). Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  9. "Geneaology of Brian Marcus". Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  10. "Symbolic Dynamics book". Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  11. "Scholarpedia: Symbolic Dynamics". Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  12. "Leonard G. Abraham Prize=October 18 15, 2019".

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