Brian Marcus

Marcus earned his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley); his supervisor was Rufus Bowen.[5] He then worked as an IBM Watson Postdoctoral Fellow, an associate professor at UNC Chapel Hill and a researcher at IBM Research – Almaden. He additionally held visiting associate professor positions at UC Berkeley, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Stanford University.[3] From 2016 to 2018, he was the Deputy Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences,[3] where, as of 2019, he is the UBC Site Director.[1] He is one the representatives of the Pacific Rim Mathematical Association.[6]

His main areas of research are ergodic theory, symbolic dynamics and information theory. He has published contributions in the theory of horocycle flows and entropy. Marcus has written over seventy research papers, some of them published in Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones Mathematicae and Journal of the AMS. His collaborators include Wolfgang Krieger, Roy Adler, Rufus Bowen, Dominique Perrin, Jack Wolf, Yuval Peres and Sheldon Newhouse.[7][8] Marcus (with Doug Lind) wrote the book An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding[9] (currently with more than 3,000 citations on Google Scholar), and (with Susan Williams) the Scholarpedia article on symbolic dynamics.[10]

In 1993, Marcus was awarded the Leonard J. Abraham Prize Paper award of the IEEE.[11] In 1999, he was elected as a fellow of the IEEE.[3] He was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2018; the citation was "For contributions to dynamical systems, symbolic dynamics and applications to data storage problems, and service to the profession."[2]

• Daniel Rudolph - American mathematician, contemporary of Brian Marcus