Mark Pollicott

Mark Pollicott
Born	(1959-09-24) 24 September 1959 Nottingham, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Occupation	Mathematician
Awards	Royal Society University Research Fellowship two Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships E.U. Marie Curie Chair
Academic background
Education	High Pavement College, Nottingham
Alma mater	University of Warwick
Thesis	The Ruelle Operator, Zeta Functions and the Asymptotic Distribution of Closed Orbits (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Bill Parry
Academic work
Institutions	University of Edinburgh University of Porto University of Manchester University of Warwick
Website	warwick.ac.uk/~masdbl/

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.

External links

• Home page at Warwick