Brian Marcus

Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia

TEACHING (Term 1 W2013-2014 (Sept. - Dec. 2013)):

Math 507/420 Measure Theory

Math 226 Advanced Calculus I (Honours)

Office Hours: TuTh 2:30 - 4:00 and by appointment (in room 218 of Math Building).

RESEARCH GROUP:

Raimundo Briceno, PhD student

Nishant Chandgotia, PhD student

Felipe Garcia-Ramos, PhD student

RECENT ALUMNI OF RESEARCH GROUP:

Guangyue Han, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong

Erez Louidor, Google, Mountain View, USA

Tom Meyerovitch, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University

Ronnie Pavlov, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Denver

Research Interests:

Coding and Information Theory, Symbolic Dynamics, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems

Publications:

Recent Research Publications in Electronic Form

Publication List

Textbook:

An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding (with D. Lind), Cambridge University Press, 1995 (reprinted 1999).

Lecture Notes:

An Introduction to Coding for Constrained Systems (with R. Roth and P. Siegel)

Class and Seminar Notes:

Entropy

Thermodynamic Formalism

Presentations:

Careers in Mathematics

Careers in Mathematics (brief)

A Talk on entropy of d-dimensional shifts of finite type

Bio:

A Brief Biography

Contact Information:

Brian Marcus
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2
Canada
marcus@math.ubc.ca
tel:604-822-3262
Math Building 218