Michael Brin Dynamical Systems
Prize for Young Mathematicians
The DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS PRIZE FOR YOUNG MATHEMATICIANS was established by Anatole Katok in the Fall of 2015 to recognize outstanding contributions to dynamical systems made by researchers within a few years of their PhD. The first (2016) edition of the prize was funded by Anatole Katok. Starting with the 2018 edition, the prize is funded by an endowment of Michael Brin, and Is now called MICHAEL BRIN DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS PRIZE FOR YOUNG MATHEMATICIANS.
The prize is awarded for specific contributions to the field of dynamical systems, taken in broad sense. Work not yet accepted for publication in refereed journals can be considered for the award. However, complete proofs must be available as preprints and in this case committee member(s) should be able to certify their correctness. The prize carries a cash award of $ 4,000.
The prize is awarded bi-annually every even year (starting on 2016) and its winner is announced at the Penn State Fall Semi-annual workshop in dynamical systems. The eligibility for the prize is limited to researchers within 4 years after the Ph.D. at the beginning of the prize calendar year.
MICHAEL BRIN DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS PRIZE FOR YOUNG MATHEMATICIANS WINNERS
The 2024 Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians has been awarded (ex-aequo) to
FRANCISCO ARANA-HERRERA for his work on effective counting results in Teichmüller dynamics and applications to geometry and topology of surfaces.
and to
ROHIL PRASAD for his contributions to symplectic topology and applications to the dynamics of area preserving maps, contact flows and Hamiltonian systems.
THE PRIZE COMMITTEE included the following members:
- Lewis Bowen, University of Texas, Austin
- Giovanni Forni, Committee Chair, University of Maryland, College Park
- Sébastien Gouëzel, IRMAR, Rennes
- Michael Hochman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Yakov Pesin, ex officio, Director of Anatole Katok Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry, Penn State University
- Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Penn State University
- Omri Sarig, The Weizmann Institute of Science
- Corinna Ulcigrai, Universität Zürich, Institut für Mathematik
The 2022 Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians has been awarded (ex-aequo) to
THIBAULT LEFEUVRE for his several profound and powerful contributions to the field of dynamical systems related to geodesic and frame flows in negative curvature.
and to
NICOLE LOOPER for her work on two long-standing central conjectures in arithmetic dynamics: the Odoni's conjecture and the Uniform Boundedness Conjecture.
THE PRIZE COMMITTEE included the following members:
- Lewis Bowen, University of Texas, Austin
- Giovanni Forni, Committee Chair, University of Maryland, College Park
- Sébastien Gouëzel, IRMAR, Rennes
- Michael Hochman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Yakov Pesin, ex officio, Director of Anatole Katok Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry, Penn State University
- Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Penn State University
- Omri Sarig, The Weizmann Institute of Science
- Corinna Ulcigrai, Universität Zürich, Institut für Mathematik
The 2020 Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians has been awarded to
JOEL MOREIRA for his outstanding work on ergodic Ramsey theory and his joint proof of the Erdős sumset conjecture.
THE PRIZE COMMITTEE included the following members:
Artur Avila, CNRS, University of Zurich and IMPA
Lewis Bowen, University of Texas, Austin
Giovanni Forni, Committee Chair, University of Maryland, College Park
Sébastien Gouëzel, University of Rennes, France
Michael Hochman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yakov Pesin, ex officio, Director of Anatole Katok Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry, Penn State University
Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Penn State University
Omri Sarig, The Weizmann Institute of Science
The 2018 Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians has been awarded (ex-aequo) to
ALEX WRIGHT for his fundamental work on the Teichmüller geometry and dynamics of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces, especially on classification of SL(2,R)-invariant orbifolds, and the discovery of unexpected examples,
and to
BRANDON SEWARD for his groundbreaking work on entropy theory for actions of countable groups, extending to this general setting fundamental results of the classical theory such as Sinai's Factor Theorem and Krieger's Finite Generators Theorem.
THE PRIZE COMMITTEE included the following members:
- Artur Avila, CNRS, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche, and IMPA
- Lewis Bowen, University of Texas, Austin
- Giovanni Forni, Committee Chair, University of Maryland, College Park
- Michael Hochman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Yakov Pesin, ex officio, Director of Anatole Katok Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry, Penn State University
- Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Penn State University
- Omri Sarig, The Weizmann Institute of Science
SIMION FILIP for outstanding work in Teichmüller dynamics and geometry.
THE PRIZE COMMITTEE included the following members:
- Artur Avila, CNRS, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche, and IMPA
- Giovanni Forni, Committee Chair, University of Maryland, College Park
- Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Penn State University
- Omri Sarig, The Weizmann Institute of Science