Yakov Pesin - Curriculum Vitae#
EDUCATION
- 1968 B.S. Moscow State University, Russia
- 1970 M.S. Moscow State University, Russia (with honors)
- 1979 Ph.D. Gorky State University, Russia, Thesis advisor -- Prof. D. V. Anosov
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dynamical systems theory, Ergodic theory, Mathematical and Statistical physics, Fractal geometry, Dimension theory, Riemannian geometry.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1. 2018 Director, A. Katok Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry, PennState University, University Park, USA
2. Jan. 2003 - present Distinguished Professor, Penn State Univ., Univ. Park, USA
2. July 1990 - Dec. 2003 Professor, Penn State Univ., University Park, USA
3. 1984 - 1989 Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russia
4. 1970 - 1984 Scientific Researcher at various Research Institutes in Moscow, Russia
VISITING PROFESSOR POSITIONS
1. University of Rome I (La Sapienza) Rome, Italy, Nov. - Dec. 1989.
2. University of Chicago, January - June 1990
3. Fourier Institute, University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France, May - June 1994
4. ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, March--May 1997 and April - June 2003
5. National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, February 2001
6. University Paris-Sud-Orsay, Paris, France, Sept. - Oct. 2007
7. Research Institute in Mathematical Science, Kyoto, Japan, January - April 2004
8. University of Maryland, College Park, January - May 2009, Sept. - May 2010
9. Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, March - April 2013
10. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, November 2017
AWARDS, DISTINGUISHED LECTURES
1. Inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, 2012
2. Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians (the session: ODE and Dynamical Systems), Berkeley, 1986
3. Distinguished Lecture, University of Texas, Austin, September 1991
4. Invited Address, SIAM Annual Meeting, Kansas City, 1996
5. Invited Address, AMS Annual Meeting, Ohio State University, Sept. 2001
6. Distinguished Lecture, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, May 2010
7. Bernoulli Lecture, Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2013
9. Received extensive support from the National Science Foundation including continued individual grant (1991 - present), numerous conference and travel grants and collaborative research grants
INVITED VISITS: Visited all major mathematical institute and centers, including:
1. S. Banach International Center for Mathematics, (Warsaw, Poland); 2. Mathematics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Science Budapest, Hungary); 3. IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, Institute Henri Poincaré (IHP), Paris, and Centre de Physique Théorique, Luminy, (France); 4. Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge, UK); 5. Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark); 6. Weierstrass Institute of Applied Science, Berlin; Max Planck Institute, Bonn; Institute of Mathematics, Oberwolfach and Institute of Mathematics, Göttingen (Germany); 7. Erwin Schrödinger Institute (Vienna, Austria); 8. Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy); 9. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (Trieste, Italy); 10. Mittag-Leffler Institute of Mathematics and Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden); 11. Institute of Mathematics, Madrid, Spain; 12. IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 13. Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel); 14. Fields Institute in Mathematics (Toronto, Canada); 15 Morning Star Mathematical Institute, Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing, China)