Curriculum Vitae Douglas A. Lind Department of Mathematics University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 Telephone: Work (206) 543-1723, Fax (206) 322-1443 Home (206) 322-0133; Citizenship: US Email: lind@math.washington.edu October 31, 2000 Education: University of Virginia, 1964 68; B.A. (with Highest Distinction) in Mathematics. Cambridge University, 1968 69; Mathematical Tripos, Part III. Stanford University, 1969 73; M.A. in Mathematics, 1971; Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1973. Ph.D. advisor: Donald Ornstein; Dissertation title: Locally Compact Measure-Preserving Flows. Employment: University of Washington, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, 1976 78; Associate Professor, 1978 83; Professor, 1983 present; Department Chair, 1993 98. Professeur Invité, Université Aix-Marseilles, June, 1993. Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California, Fall semester, 1992, Program on Symbolic Dynamics. Consultant to Heath Tecna Aerospace Company, Kent, Washington, June, 1989 December, 1990. Provided mathematical analysis for the manufacture of jet intake ducts by carbon filament winding using geodesics, and used this to develop FORTRAN software to drive filament winding machine. Visiting Faculty, IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, September-December, 1984. Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California, 1983 1984, Program on Ergodic Theory. Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1975 76. Miller Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1973 75. Selected Research Activities: Grant support from the National Science Foundation, June 1976 June, 1999. Invited speaker, AMS Special Session on Symbolic and Geometric Dynamical Systems, San Francisco, October, 2000.
Visiting faculty, Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, June 1 30, 1997, November 6 December 5, 1998, and May 25 June 28, 1999. Invited speaker, Workshop on Ergodic Theory of Z d -Actions, University of Warwick, April, 2000. Invited speaker, AMS Special Session on the Dynamics of Z d -actions, Washington, D.C., January, 2000. Invited speaker, Dynamics Seminar, University of Victoria, November, 1999. Invited speaker, IMA Conference on Codes, Systems, and Graphical Models, Minneapolis, August, 1999. Invited speaker, Conference on Dynamics, University of Maryland, March, 1999. University of Washington Royalty Research Fund Grant, March 1998 March 1999. Invited principal speaker, Conference on Ergodic Theory and Dynamics, Technical University of Delft, Holland, July 15 30, 1994. Invited speaker and participant, Warwick Symposium on Z d -Actions, June 1 30, 1994. Invited speaker, Conference on Algebraic Systems, C.I.R.M., Luminy, France, June, 1993. Invited speaker, Conference on Symbolic Dynamics and its Applications, Yale University, July, 1991. Invited speaker, Special session on the geometry of algebraic numbers, Canadian Mathematical Society, Vancouver, August, 1989. Invited speaker, Mini-symposium on Coding Theory, SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, San Francisco, June 13, 1988. Special lecturer, Computers in Mathematics Lecture Series, IBMYorktown, March 17, 1988. Invited speaker, Conference on Symbolic Dynamics, University of Heidelberg, July, 1987. Invited speaker, Conference on Coded Systems, C.I.R.M., Luminy, France, June, 1987. Invited speaker, Workshop on Symbolic Dynamics, Warwick University, England, June 21 July 20, 1986. Invited participant, Workshop on Cellular Automata, Los Alamos, March, 1983. Invited lecturer, Workshop on Symbolic Dynamics, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, November, 1982. Invited speaker, Journées Ergodiques, C.I.R.M., Luminy, France, June, 1982. 2
3 Selected Professional Activities: Associate Editor for Research-Expository Articles, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 1999 02. Chair, Building Committee, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 2000 (responsible for design of a new addition) Chair, Committee of Academic Sponsors, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 1999 02. Co-organizer, Northwest Dynamics Symposium, University of Victoria, May, 2000. Chair, Organizing Committee, Conference on Leadership in Research Mathematics Departments, American Mathematical Society, Indiana University, August 6 7, 1999. Co-organizer, Workshop for New and Recent Mathematics Chairs, American Mathematical Society, held January, 1998 in Baltimore; January, 1999 in San Antonio; January, 2000 in Washington, DC., and January, 2001 in New Orleans. Member, Advisory Board, American Institute of Mathematics, 1997 present. Editorial Board, Electronic Research Announcements, American Mathematical Society, 1995 97. Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Seattle MathFest (annual joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America), August, 1996. Co-organizer, Symposium on the Riemann Hypothesis, University of Washington, Seattle, August 12 15, 1996. Co-organizer, Conference on Number Theory and Dynamics, C.I.R.M, Luminy, France, July 4 8, 1995. Member, American Mathematical Society Task Force on Excellence, 1995 2000. Member, Mathematics Education Reform Task Force, 1993 present. Organizing Committee, Workshop on Computer Visualization of Geometric Objects, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Fall, 1992. Organizing Committee, Program in Symbolic Dynamics, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, September December, 1992. American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship Committee, 1991 93. Organizing Committee, Conference on Arithmetics and Symbolic Dynamics, CIRM, Luminy, France, September, 1991. Vice Chairman of Board of Trustees, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 1991 95. Chairman of the Computing Advisory Panel, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 1989 95. Co-organizer, NSF-CBMS Conference on Algebraic Ideas in Ergodic Theory, University of Washington, July 17 21, 1989.
Co-organizer, Workshop on Ergodic Theory and Symbolic Dynamics, University of Washington, June 19 July 16, 1989. 4 University Service: Member, Fiber Arts Review Committee, Winter Quarter, 1995. Initiated and administered the Council of Chairs, 1994 98, an informal group of the chairs of all departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. This group met twice quarterly to discuss issues of common concern. Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 1994 96. Department Chair, 1993 98. Computer Science Department Review Committee, 1987 88. Faculty Senate Budget Committee, 1985 87. Research Publications: 1. The quadratic field Q( 5) and a certain Diophantine equation, Fibonacci Quart. 6 (1968), 86 93. 2. (with V. E. Hoggatt, Jr.) Fibonacci and binomial properties of weighted compositions, J. Combinatorial Theory 4 (1968), 121 124. 3. (with V. E. Hoggatt, Jr.) Symbolic substitutions into Fibonacci polynomials, Fibonacci Quart. 6 (1968), 55 75. 4. An extension of Stern s diatomic series, Duke Math. J. 36 (1969), 55 60. 5. (with V. E. Hoggatt, Jr.) Compositions and Fibonacci numbers, Fibonacci Quart. 6 (1968), 55 74. 6. Which polynomials over an algebraic number field map the algebraic integers into themselves? Amer. Math. Monthly 78 (1971), 179 180. 7. Convolutions and absolute continuity, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (1973), 347 348. 8. Translation invariant sigma algebras on groups, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (1974), 218 221. 9. Ergodic automorphisms of the infinite torus are Bernoulli, Israel J. Math. 17 (1974), 162 168. 10. Locally compact measure preserving flows, Advances in Math. 15 (1975), 175 193. 11. Spectral invariants and smooth ergodic theory, Proc. of Battelle Rencontres in Math. and Phys., Springer Lecture Notes in Physics 38 (1975), 296 308. 12. (with J. Feldman) Hyperfiniteness and the Halmos-Rohlin theorem for nonsingular abelian actions, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (1976), 339 344. 13. A counterexample to a conjecture of Hopf, Duke Math. J. 42 (1975), 755 757. 14. The structure of skew products with ergodic group automorphisms, Israel J. Math. 28 (1977), 205 248.
15. Split skew products, a related functional equation, and specification, Israel J. Math. 30 (1978), 236 254. 16. (with J.-P. Thouvenot) Measure-preserving homeomorphisms of the torus represent all finite entropy ergodic transformations, Math. Systems Th. 11 (1978), 275 282. 17. Products of coboundaries for commuting nonsingular automorphisms, Zeit. für Wahrsch. und Verw. Geb. 43 (1978), 135 139. 18. Ergodic affine transformations are loosely Bernoulli, Israel J. Math. 30 (1978), 335 338. 19. Ergodic group automorphisms and specification, Springer Lecture Notes in Math. 729 (1978), 93 104. 20. Finitarily splitting skew products, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems I (A. B. Katok, ed.), Birkhauser, Boston, 1981, 65-80. 21. Dynamical properties of quasihyperbolic toral automorphisms, Ergodic Theory & Dyn. Sys. 2 (1982), 49 68. 22. Ergodic group automorphisms are exponentially recurrent, Israel J. Math. 41 (1982), 313 320. 23. Entropies and factorizations of topological Markov shifts, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 219 222. 24. Applications of ergodic theory and sofic systems to cellular automata, Physica D 10D (1984), 36 44; reprinted in Cellular Automata, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1984. 25. The entropies of topological Markov shifts and a related class of algebraic integers, Ergodic Th. & Dyn. Sys. 4 (1984), 283 300. 26. The spectra of topological Markov shifts, Ergodic Th. & Dyn. Sys., 6 (1986), 571 582. 27. Entropies of automorphisms of topological Markov shifts, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 99 (1987), 589 595. 28. (with Mike Boyle and Daniel Rudolph) The automorphism group of a shift of finite type, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 306 (1988), 71 114. 29. (with Thomas Ward) Automorphisms of solenoids and p-adic entropy, Ergodic Th. & Dyn. Sys. 8 (1988), 411 419. 30. Perturbations of shifts of finite type, SIAM J. on Discrete Math. 2 (1989), 350 365. 31. (with Klaus Schmidt and Thomas Ward) Mahler measure and entropy for automorphisms of compact groups, Inventiones Mathematicae 101 (1990), 593 629. 32. (with Jacob Goldberger and Meir Smorodinsky) The entropies of renewal systems, Israel J. Math. 33 (1991), 1 23. 33. Matrices of Perron numbers, J. Number Theory 40 (1992), 211 217. 34. (with Klaus Schmidt) Bernoullicity of solenoidal automorphisms and global fields, Israel J. Math. 87 (1994), 33 35. 5
35. (with Brian Marcus) An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding, xvi+495 pp, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. 36. A zeta function for Z d -actions, Proceedings of Warwick Symposium on Z d - actions, LMS Lecture Notes Series 228 (1996), Cambridge Univ. Press, 433 450. 37. (with Mike Boyle) Expansive subdynamics, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 349 (1997), 55 102. 38. (with Klaus Schmidt) Homoclinic points for algebraic Z d -actions, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1999), 953 980. 39. (with Selim Tuncel), A spanning tree invariant for Markov shifts, to appear, Codes, Systems, and Models, IMA Volume on Mathematics and its Applications, 10pp. 40. (with Manfred Einsiedler, Richard Sharp, and Thomas Ward) Expansive subdynamics for algebraic Z d -actions, 39 pp., Ergodic Th. & Dyn. Sys., to appear. 41. (with Klaus Schmidt), Algebraic and symbolic dynamical systems, an invited survey to appear in Handbook of Dynamical Systems, ed. by Anatole Katok and Boris Hasselblatt, preprint available, 42 pp. 42. (with Mike Boyle), Small polynomial matrix presentations of nonnegative matrices, in preparation. 6