PSU: “Math professor awarded Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems”

BobPSU92

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@LionJim should appreciate this.

See the link below. From the article:

”UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Zhiren Wang, associate professor of mathematics at Penn State, has been award the 11th Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems. The prize was established in 2008 by Professor Michael Brin of the University of Maryland, whose son Sergey Brin is a co-founder of Google, to recognize mathematicians who have made a substantial impact in the field at an early stage of their careers. Wang is being recognized “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.”

Wang is the second Penn State mathematician to be awarded the prize out of 11 total prizes — the first being Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Anatole Katok Chair Professor of Mathematics, who won the prize in 2015.

Wang studies a branch of mathematics known as dynamical systems, which aims to describe the trajectory of a point in a geometric shape, given a set of rules that characterize the movement of the point. In the problems that he focuses on, the geometric shape and the rules often arise from an algebraic setting and are connected to number theory and other mathematical subjects.

Wang was awarded a von Neumann Fellowship by the Institute for Advanced Study in 2022. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A and the Journal of Modern Dynamics.”


 

Tom_PSU

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I’m more concerned about the mathematics department inability to construct an advanced algorithm that will guarantee us at least ten wins this year. Certainly the answer should be in that “Moebius disjointedness” stuff.
 

BobPSU92

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I’m more concerned about the mathematics department inability to construct an advanced algorithm that will guarantee us at least ten wins this year. Certainly the answer should be in that “Moebius disjointedness” stuff.

If they could figure that out, we’re talking Fields Medal.
 

Tony 83

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dynamical systems, which aims to describe the trajectory of a point in a geometric shape

Sounds like shooting pool to me. Bet Dr. Wang took a lot of folks' money back in the day.
 
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