Brian Marcus

FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2016-17, I AM SPENDING THE VAST MAJORITY OF TIME AT MY PIMS OFFICE: ESB 4156, (604) 822-1369

Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia

Deputy Director, Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Conference Announcement: Current Trends in Dynamical Systems and the Mathematical Legacy of Rufus Bowen, July 30 - August 4, 2017, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

RESEARCH GROUP:

Raimundo Briceno, PhD student (currently, visiting graduate student, Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)

Cutting-Edge Research by Quatro Amigos

RECENT ALUMNI OF RESEARCH GROUP:

Nishant Chandgotia, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tel Aviv University (currently ICERM postdoctoral semester fellow, Brown University)

Felipe Garcia-Ramos, IMPA Postdoctoral Fellow of Excellence, University of Sao Paulo

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, Associate 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 and Equilibrium states in Ergodic Theory and Statistical Mechanics

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