Ergodic Theory: A Volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science

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.