Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems

The thirteenth Brin Prize was awarded to Amir Mohammadi for his fundamental contributions to effective counting and equidistribution in Teichmüller and homogeneous dynamics.

• Brin Prize Committee 2024
• Mohammadi's work

TALKS ABOUT MOHAMMADI'S WORK AT THE PRIZE SESSION

of the Maryland Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, April 6, 2024

• Manfred Einsiedler, On the work of Amir Mohammadi in homogeneous dynamics
• Alex Eskin, On the work of Amir Mohammadi in homogeneous dynamics and Tecihmuller dynamics

PHOTOS FROM THE 2024 BRIN PRIZE SESSION

• The winner and the committee chair
• The winner, the speakers and the committee members

The twelfth Brin Prize was awarded to Jacopo De Simoi for his fundamental contributions to the study of Fermi acceleration, of marked length spectrum rigidity for integrable and dispersing billiards, and entropy rigidity for conservative Anosov flows in dimension 3.

• Brin Prize Committee 2023
• De Simoi's prize work

TALKS ABOUT DE SIMOI'S WORK AT THE PRIZE SESSION

of the Penn State Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, November 4, 2023

• Dmitry Dolgopyat, The work of Jacopo De Simoi on hyperbolic billiards and on Fermi acceleration
• Sergei Tabachnikov, De Simoi’s work on Birkhoff billiards

PHOTOS FROM THE 2023 BRIN PRIZE SESSION

• The winner and the committee chair
• The winner and the committee members

The eleventh Brin Prize was awarded to ZHIREN WANG for his fundamental contributions to the study of topological and measure rigidity of higher rank actions, and his proof of Moebius disjointness for several classes of dynamical systems.

• Brin Prize Committee 2022 
• Wang's prize work

TALKS ABOUT WANG'S WORK AT THE PRIZE SESSION

of the University of Maryland Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, April 2, 2022

• Peter Sarnak, Moebius Disjointness - A partial report with highlights of Zhiren Wang's work.
• Ralf Spatzier, On the work of Zhiren Wang on rigidity in dynamics

PHOTOS FROM THE 2022 BRIN PRIZE SESSION

• The winners and the committee chair
• The winner, the session speakers, and the committee chair

The tenth Brin Prize has been awarded to TIM AUSTIN for for his innovative proof of the weak Pinsker conjecture, for his groundbreaking approach to non-conventional ergodic theorems for multiple averages via the theory of pleasant extensions, and his contributions to geometric group theory.

• Brin Prize Committee 2021
• Austin’s prize work

TALKS ABOUT AUSTIN’S WORK AT THE BRIN PRIZE SESSION  

of the Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, October 30, 2021 

• Jean-Paul Thouvenot, A presentation of some of the ideas in Tim Austin's work on the weak Pinsker property.
• Terrence Tao, On some work of Tim Austin.

PHOTOS FROM THE 2021 BRIN PRIZE SESSION 

• The winner and the committee chair
• The winner and the session speakers
• The winner, the session speakers, and the committee members

The ninth Brin Prize has been awarded to CORINNA ULCIGRAI for her fundamental work on the ergodic theory of locally Hamiltonian flows on surfaces, of translation flows on periodic surfaces and wind-tree models, and her seminal work on higher genus generalizations of Markov and Lagrange spectra.

• Brin Prize Committee 2020
• Ulcigrai's prize work 

The eighth Brin Prize has been awarded to SÉBASTIEN GOUËZEL for his groundbreaking and influential work on the spectral theory of transfer operators and on statistical properties of hyperbolic dynamical systems and random walks on hyperbolic groups.

• Brin Prize Committee 2019
• Gouëzel's prize work 

TALKS ABOUT GOUËZEL'S WORK AT THE BRIN PRIZE SESSION  
of the Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, September 28, 2019 

• Dmitry Dolgopyat, Work of Sébastien Gouëzel on Limit Theorems and on Banach spaces adapted to dynamical systems
• Francois Ledrappier, Sébastien Gouëzel, problems solver

PHOTOS FROM THE 2019 BRIN PRIZE SESSION 

• The winner accepts the prize
• The winner with the session speakers
• The winner with the committee chair
• The winner with the committee members, session speakers, and the director of Anatole Katok Center

The seventh Brin Prize has been awarded to MICHAEL HOCHMAN  for his seminal and groundbreaking work on dimensions of projections of self-similar measures, and on inverse theorems for entropy of convolutions of probability measures, also in higher dimensions.

• Prize guidelines
• Hochman's prize work 

TALKS ABOUT HOCHMAN'S WORK AT THE BRIN PRIZE SESSION  
of the University of Maryland Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, April 8, 2018 

• Mike Boyle, The work of Mike Hochman on multidimensional symbolic dynamics and Borel dynamics
• Hillel Furstenberg, Entropy and Wishful Theorems

PHOTOS FROM THE 2018 BRIN PRIZE SESSION 

• The wnner
• The winner with the sessions speakers

The sixth Brin Prize has been awarded to LEWIS BOWEN  
for creation of entropy theory for a broad class of non-amenable groups and solution of the long standing isomorphism problem for Bernoulli actions of such groups,

• Prize guidelines
• Bowen's prize work 

TALK ABOUT BOWEN'S WORK AT THE BRIN PRIZE SESSION  
of the Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, October 7, 2017 

• Jean-Paul Thouvenot, The work of Lewis Bowen on Entropy Theory for Non-amenable Groups and Isomorphism of Bernoulli Actions.  Journal of Modern Dynamics vol 15,  pp 133 - 141

PHOTOS FROM THE 2017 BRIN PRIZE SESSION 

• The winner with the session speaker
• The winner with present committee members 
• The donor, the winner and the committee chair 
• Thouvenot speaks 

The fifth Brin Prize has been awarded to FEDERICO RODRIGUEZ HERTZ  
for his groundbreaking work on stable ergodicity of partially hyperbolic systems, on global smooth rigidity and on measure rigidity of smooth group actions on compact manifolds. 

• Prize guidelines
• Rodriguez Hertz's prize work 

TALKS ABOUT RODRIGUEZ HERTZ'S WORK AT THE BRIN PRIZE SESSION  
of the Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, October 24, 2015 

• Dmitry Dolgopyat, The work of Federico Rodriguez Hertz on Ergodicity of Dynamical Systems;  atricle in the  Journal of Modern Dynamics vol 10,  pp 175 - 189
• Ralf Spatzier, On Global and Measure Rigidity in the work of Federico Rodriguez Hertz;  atricle in the  Journal of Modern Dynamics vol 10, p 191 - 207 

PHOTOS FROM THE 2015 BRIN PRIZE SESSION 

• Announcement of the prize 
• The winner with the session speakers 
• The winner with present committee members 
• Dolgopyat's lecture 
• Spatzier's lecture 
• Winner with his family 

The fourth Brin Prize has been awarded to OMRI SARIG 
for fundamental contributions to the theory of infinite Markov chains and the solution of long-standing problem of constructing infinite Markov partitions for general surface diffeomorphisms with positive topological entropy

• Prize guidelines
• Sarig's prize work 

TALKS ABOUT SARIG'S WORK AT THE BRIN PRIZE SESSION  
of the Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, October 19, 2013 

• Yakov Pesin, On the work of Omri Sarig on infinite Markov chains and thermodynamical formalism; article in the Journal of Modern Dynamics vol. 8, N1, pp 1 - 14
• Francois Ledrappier, On the prize work of Omri Sarig on Markov partitions for surface diffeomorphisms and applications; article in the Journal of Modern Dynamics vol. 8, N1, pp 15 - 24

PHOTOS FROM THE 2013 BRIN PRIZE SESSION 

• Announcement of the prize 
• The winner with the session speakers 
• The winner with the donor and the committee chair 
• Pesin's lecture 
• Ledrappier's lecture 
• Audience at the prize session

The third Brin Prize has been awarded to ARTUR AVILA 
for fundamental contributions to one-dimensional dynamics, spectral theory of Schoedinger operators, and dynamics of interval exchange transformations and Teichmueller flows

• Prize guidelines
• Avila's prize work

TALKS ABOUT AVILA'S WORK AT THE BRIN PRIZE SESSION  of the Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, October 22, 2011 

• Mikhail Lyubich, On the prize work of Artur Avila on one-dimensional dynamics; atricle in the  Journal of Modern Dynamics vol 6, N2, pp 183 - 203 
• Raphael Krikorian, On the work of Artur Avila on quasi-periodic Schroedinger operators 
• Giovanni Forni, On the prize work of Artur Avila on Teichmueller dynamics and interval exchange transformations; atricle in the  Journal of Modern Dynamics vol 6, N2, pp 139 - 182

PHOTOS FROM THE 2011 BRIN PRIZE SESSION 

• The winner accepts the prize
• The winner with the session speakers

The second Brin Prize has been awarded to DMITRY DOLGOPYAT 
for his fundamental contributions to the study of statistical properties of hyperbolic dynamical systems

• Prize guidelines
• Dolgopyat's prize work 

TALKS ABOUT DOLGOPYAT'S WORK AT THE BRIN PRIZE SESSION
of the Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, October 31, 2009

• Carlangelo Liverani,  On the Work and Vision of Dmitry Dolgopyat, article in the Journal of Modern Dynamics vol. 4, N2, pp 211 - 225
• Yakov Pesin,  On the Work of Dolgopyat on Partial and Nonuniform Hyperbolicity, article in the Journal of Modern Dynamics vol. 4, N2, pp 227 - 241 
• Nikolai Chernov,  Works on physical models with moving particles, article in the Journal of Modern Dynamics vol. 4, N2, pp 243 - 255

PHOTOS FROM THE 2009 BRIN PRIZE SESSION 

• The winner accepts the prize 
• The winner with the session speakers 
• The winner with the committee chair
• Liverani speaks at the prize session 
• Pesin speaks at the prize session
• Chernov speaks at the prize session
• The donor listens at the prize session
• Johh Mather listens at the prize session
• A scene during the prize session

The first Brin Prize has been awarded to GIOVANNI FORNI 
for the pioneering work on solutions of cohomological equations for flows on surfaces 
and solution of Kontsevich-Zorich conjecture on deviation of ergodic averages.

• Prize guidelines
• Forni's prize work 
• Invited article by William A. Veech published in the Journal of Modern Dynamics (vol. 2, N3, pp 275 - 395) on the occasion of awarding the first Michael Brin Prize

PHOTOS FROM THE BRIN PRIZE SESSION at the Brin-60 conference 

• The Prize Committee chair is about to announce the winner
• Giovanni Forni stands as he is announced as the first winner of the Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems
• Committee chair displays a more than life size $15000 award check while Giovanni Forni examines his Prize certificate
• John Mather gives the talk on the Prize work
• Livio Flaminio speaks on joint work with Giovanni Forni
• The winner, the donor and Committee chair