The Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems, abbreviated as the Brin Prize, is awarded to mathematicians who have made outstanding advances in the field of

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s and are within 14 years of their PhD.. The prize is endowed by and named after Michael Brin, whose son

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is a co-founder of

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. Michael Brin is a retired mathematician at the

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and a specialist in dynamical systems. The first prize was awarded in 2008, between 2009 and 2017 it has been awarded bi-annually, and since 2017 annually.

Artur Avila Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo (; born 29 June 1979) is a Brazilian mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and lusop ...

, the 2011 awardee, went on to win the

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in 2014. From 2016, the Brin prize for young mathematicians is awarded as well, which is given to mathematicians within 4 years of their PhD.

Past winners

* 2008 :

Giovanni Forni Giovanni Forni is an Italian mathematician at the University of Maryland known for his research in dynamical systems. After graduating from the University of Bologna in 1989, he obtained his PhD in 1993 from Princeton University, under the super ...

for his work on area-preserving flows. * 2009 :

Dmitry Dolgopyat Dmitry Dolgopyat is a Russian-American mathematician specializing in dynamical systems, a field that studies the time evolution of natural and abstract systems. An internationally acclaimed lecturer, he holds the position of Distinguished Univers ...

for his work on rapid mixing of flows. * 2011 :

for his work on Teichmüller dynamics and interval-exchange transformations. * 2013 :

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for his work on the thermodynamics of countable Markov shifts and his Markov partition for surface diffeomorphisms. *2015 :

Federico Rodriguez Hertz Federico Rodríguez Hertz (born December 14, 1973) is an Argentine mathematician working in the United States. He is the Anatole Katok Chair professor of mathematics at Penn State University. Rodriguez Hertz studies dynamical systems and ergodic ...

for his work on geometric and measure rigidity and on stable ergodicity of partially hyperbolic systems.. *2017 : Lewis Bowen for creation of entropy theory for a broad class of non-amenable groups and solution of the long-standing isomorphism problem for Bernoulli actions of such groups. *2018 : Mike Hochman for his work in ergodic theory and fractal geometry. *2019 : Sébastien Gouëzel for his work on the spectral theory of transfer operators and statistical properties of hyperbolic dynamical systems and random walks on hyperbolic groups. *2020 :

Corinna Ulcigrai Corinna Ulcigrai (born 3 January 1980, Trieste) is an Italian mathematician working on dynamical systems. With Krzysztof Frączek in 2013, Ulcigrai is known for proving that in the Ehrenfest model (a mathematical abstraction of billiards with an ...

for her work on the ergodic theory of locally Hamiltonian flows on surfaces and translation flows on periodic surfaces. *2021 : Tim Austin for his proof the weak Pinsker conjecture, for his groundbreaking approach to non-conventional multiple ergodic theorems, and his contributions to geometric group theory. *2022 : Zhiren Wang 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. *2023 : Jacopo De Simoi for his fundamental contributions to the study of Fermi acceleration, of marked length spectrum rigidity for integrable and dispersing billiards, and entropy rigidity for conservative Anosov flows in dimension 3. *2024 : Amir Mohammadi for his fundamental contributions to effective counting and equidistribution in Teichmüller and homogeneous dynamics.

Past winners of the Brin prize for young mathematicians

*2016 : Simion Filip *2018 : Alex Wright and Brendon Seward *2020 : Joel Moriera *2022 : Thibault Lefeuvre and Nicole Looper *2024 : Francisco Arana-Herrera and Rohil Prasad

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Past winners

Past winners of the Brin prize for young mathematicians

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