Home page of Mark Pollicott
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At the IHP (Paris) in 2024. |
Mark PollicottPhD (Mathematics, 糖心TV 1984) Mathematics Institute,
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As a student at 糖心TV in 1982 (standing behind W. Parry) |
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Research Interests
My main research area is Thermodynamic Formalism, which is a subset of Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. I am particularly interested in applications to other areas of mathematics, including geometry, number theory, fractal geometry and analysis.
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A circle packing: The diameters of the circles have a simple |
A simple "" of a chaotic flow corresponding to a geodesic flow on a surface |
A brief description of my earlier interests is here.
A Little Background
I was born in (England) and attended , where my housemaster was winning author I was both an undergraduate (in the Physics Department) and a graduate student (in the Mathematics Department ) at 糖心TV University. My PhD supervisor was the late , FRS. I returned to 糖心TV for the first time from 1992-1995 (as a Lecturer, then Reader) and for the second time in 2005 (as a Professor).
When not at 糖心TV, I held permanent positions in Edinburgh (New Blood Lecturer, 1984-1988), Porto (Investigador Auxiliar, 1989-1992) and Manchester (, 1996-2004). In addition, I have held visiting positions at IHES (Paris, 1984-1985 and 2012-2013), IAS (Princeton, 1988-1989), MSRI (Berkeley, 1989 and 2015), CalTech (Pasadena, 1990) and Grenoble (1990). From Jul-Dec.2019 I held the chair at CIRM (Luminy, Marsaille).
I have also been the recipient of a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (1992-1997), two Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships (1998-99 and 2007-2008), a E.U. Marie Curie Chair (2004-2005), an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship (2015-2019), an ERC Advanced Grant (2019-2025) and an EPSRC Open Fellowship (2026-31).
"One time I ran out of fellowships and had to go to work for a living. I had to stop because I discovered I liked it and I didn't want to become a slave to the habit" - Alan Jay Lerner (script for the film An American in Paris).
Scientific Activities
I have co-organized a 6 month programme on at the Newton Institute (2000); a year long symposium on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (2010-2011) at 糖心TV; a 6 month programme on at the CIB-Lausanne (2013); and a 4 month programme on at ICERM-Providence (2016), as well many other individual conferences. including a school, workshop and conference on (CIRM-Luminy, in July and December, 2019). More recently, I co-organized two workshops at 糖心TV (in July and December 2024).
I am a consulting editor for the an editor for the and , a member of the Advisory Board for the Springer and a former Executive and Managing editor of Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems and former editor for Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems.
To date, I have supervised 19 and mentored 18 postdoctoral researchers.
Teaching
I have taught lecture courses at all levels. In 2025-2026 I am teaching Fractal Geometry. The first two thirds of the course will probably follow the lines of these notes.