Amie Wilkinson

Amie Wilkinson is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago and a leader in the field of dynamical systems and ergodic theory. She has played a central role in recent major developments settling long-standing questions and has made numerous deep contributions to the field of ergodic theory of smooth dynamical systems, most notably in the partially hyperbolic setting. Topics on which she has made her mark with various co-authors include density of stable ergodicity, center on Lyapunov exponents, pathological foliations ("Fubini foiled"), rigidity, and the remarkable relations between these notions. Particularly noteworthy is the work with C. Bonatti and S. Crovisier settling a long-standing question about generic C^1-diffeomorphisms, her work with K. Burns on the ergodicity of partially hyperbolic systems, as well as the study with co-authors (Burns, Matheus, Masur in various configurations) on the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow in which ergodicity and mixing properties are established.