Handling editor: Evelyn Sander

Professor Michael Brin of the University of Maryland endowed an international prize for outstanding work in the theory of dynamical systems and related areas. The prize is given biennially for specific mathematical achievements that appear as a single publication or a series thereof in refereed journals, proceedings or monographs.

The prize is $15,000 assuming availability of funds. It recognizes mathematicians who have made substantial impact in the field at an early stage of their careers. The prize is awarded by an international committee of experts chaired by Anatole Katok. Its members are Yakov Pesin, Marina Ratner, Marcelo Viana and Benjamin Weiss.

The first prize was awarded at the Spring 2008 Maryland meeting of the semi-annual Workshop in Dynamical Systems and related topics dedicated to Professor Brin's sixtieth birthday. The award ceremony included one-hour lectures about the winner's work by leading experts in the area. An invited article on this work was published by the Journal of Modern Dynamics.

Starting in 2009 the prize will be awarded at the Fall Penn State meeting of the semi-annual Workshop in Dynamical Systems and related topics every other year, and the Journal of Modern Dynamics will publish an article on the winner's work.

Michael Brin, Giovanni Forni, and Anatole Katok, 2008. Photograph by Sergey Brin.

Giovanni Forni - Brin Prize Recipient 2008

The first Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems was awarded to Giovanni Forni for pioneering work on solutions of cohomological equations for flows on surfaces and the solution of the Kontsevich-Zorich Conjecture on deviations of ergodic averages.

Prize work of Forni

• Solutions of the cohomological equation for area-preserving flows on compact surfaces of higher genus. Annals of Mathematics (2) 146 (1997).
• Deviation of ergodic averages for area-preserving flows on surfaces of higher genus. Annals of Mathematics (2) 155 (2002), no. 1, 1-103.
• Article describing the prize work: William Veech, The Forni Cocycle. Journal of Modern Dynamics. Volume 2, No. 3, 2008, 375-395.

This was adapted from the announcement that appeared in the Journal of Modern Dynamics.

Dimitry Dolgopyat.

Dmitry Dolgopyat - Brin Prize Recipient 2009

The 2009 prize will be awarded to Dmitry Dolgopyat of University of Maryland. The award will be given on Saturday, October 31 during the Maryland-Penn State Semi-annual Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics at the Mathematics Department on the Penn State University Park campus. Exact citations and the list of prize works will be announced at the award ceremony. There will be talks on Dolgopyat's work by Carlangelo Liverani, Yakov Pesin and Nikolai Chernov.