Ergodic Theory

Cesar E. Silva is the Hagey Family Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, where he has taught since 1984, and was chair of the department in 2008-2009 and 2010-2012. He received his PhD from the University of Rochester under the supervision of Dorothy Maharam, and his BS from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Peru. He has held visiting positions at a number of universities including Maryland and Toronto. In 2015, Silva was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Silva’s research interests are in ergodic theory and dynamical systems, in particular the dynamics of nonsingular and infinite measure-preserving transformations, rank-one transformations, and p-adic dynamics. Silva is the author of Invitation to Ergodic Theory and Invitation to Real Analysis, both published by the American Mathematical Society, and is co-editor of two volumes of conference proceedings, published in the AMS Contemporary Mathematics series. He was associate editor of AMS Notices and is the author or co-author of over 50 research articles in the general area of ergodic theory.