Anatole Katok Center for
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Goals:

• To stimulate research in the theory of dynamical systems and related areas at Penn State.
• To serve as a forum for exchange of ideas and discussion of achievements within the world-wide dynamical systems community.
• To forster interaction, exchange of ideas and joint projects between mathematicians and researchers in other areas interested in non-linear dynamics. To disseminate the knowledge of the achievements in dynamical systems theory within the scientific community.
• To contribute to the training of the next generation of researchers in dynamical systems and related areas.

News:

• The Collected Works by Anatole Katok in 2 Volumes, published by World Scientific, 2024. It contain 75 pages in Open Access.
• Yakov Pesin was elected to the membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023. 
• August 27-28, 2022: Recent Advances in Dynamics, Geometry, and Number Theory, conference in honor of Svetlana Katok. For information and registration, please click here.
• We welcome Scott Schmieding to the Center! He accepted a position of Assistant Professor and joins the department in the Fall of 2022.
• Congratulations to Zhiren Wang on winning the 2022 Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems! 
• Anatole Katok Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry congratulates Hillel Furstenberg of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gregory Margulis of Yale University who shared the 2020 Abel prize for their pioneering use of methods from probability and dynamics in other mathematical fields such as group theory, number theory and combinatorics. See more here.
• Anatole Katok Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry congratulates Alex Eskin of University of Chicago on winning the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2020 for revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials, including the proof of the “magic wand theorem” with Maryam Mirzakhani.  See more here.
• Yakov Pesin has been elected to the European Academy - Academia Europaea in 2019.
• Federico Rodriguez Hertz has accepted the position of the Anatole Katok Chair in Mathematics in 2019.
• Michael Brin, Sergey Ferleger and Alexey Kononenko made major donations to support the Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry which is now named after Anatole Katok.   Full story.  Additional financial support of the Center comes from the Eberly College of Science at Penn State.