Amie Wilkinson

The University of Chicago

Amie Wilkinson is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, known for her groundbreaking contributions to smooth dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and chaos theory. She has made significant strides in resolving Stephen Smale's twelfth problem for the 21st century in collaboration with Christian Bonatti and Sylvain Crovisier.

Wilkinson earned her BA in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1989 and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995 under Charles C. Pugh. A fellow of the American Mathematical Society, she has received numerous accolades, including the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2020, and is a member of the Academia Europaea and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Amie Wilkinson
Scientific, Colloquia
PIMS Network Wide Colloquium: Amie Wilkinson
January 23, 2025
Online
I will discuss a result with Bonatti and Crovisier from 2009 showing that the C^1 generic diffeomorphism f of a closed manifold has trivial centralizer; i.e. fg = gf implies that g is a power of f. I’ll discuss features of the C^1 topology that...