Mark Pollicott
Mark Pollicott (born 24 September 1959) is a British mathematician known for his contributions to
ergodic theory and
dynamical systems. He has a particular interest in applications to other areas of mathematics, including
geometry,
number theory and analysis.
Pollicott attended
High Pavement College in
Nottingham, where his teachers included the
Booker Prize winning author
Stanley Middleton. He gained a BSc in Mathematics and Physics in 1981 and a PhD in mathematics in 1984 both at the
University of Warwick. His PhD supervisor was
Bill Parry and his thesis title ''The Ruelle Operator,
Zeta Functions and the Asymptotic Distribution of Closed Orbits''.
He held permanent positions at the
University of Edinburgh,
University of Porto, and
University of Warwick before appointment to the
Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics at the
University of Manchester (1996–2004). He then returned to a professorship at Warwick in 2005. In addition, he has held numerous visiting positions including ones at the
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Paris, the
Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton,
MSRI at the
University of California, Berkeley,
Caltech, and the
University of Grenoble. He has been recipient of a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, two
Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships and an E.U. Marie Curie Chair.
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