Professor at Department of Mathematics of Universidad Católica del Norte (Antofagasta, Chile)
Some topics that I work on: Substitution dynamical systems, Rauzy fractals, symbolic dynamics, iterated function systems, self-similar sets, Hausdorff dimension, fractals, tilings, numeration systems, Pisot numbers, beta-expansions, topological dynamics, combinatorial dynamics, ergodic theory, Lefschetz fixed point theory.
Ph.D. in Mathematics: University of Warwick (England), 1993. Advisor: Anthony K. Manning
Co-authors: Pedro Berrizbeitia, Valerié Berthé, Dante Carrasco-Oliveira, Dirk Frettlöh, Marcos J. González, Boris Iskra, Takao Komatsu, Jaume Llibre, Alberto Mendoza, Carlos A. Morales, Sze-man Ngai, Werner Georg Nowak, Yamilet Quintana, José L. Ramírez, Bernardo San Martín, Klaus Scheicher, Tarek Sellami, Bernd Sing, Boris Solomyak, Paul Surer, Jörg M. Thuswaldner, Richard Urzúa, Helmuth Villavicencio, Kendry Vivas, J.J.P. Veerman and Yang Wang.
Member of the editorial board of: Proyecciones (2019 - present), Journal of Discrete Mathematics (Hindawi) (2012-2016).
Awards and Prizes:
Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Prize awarded by Fundación Polar (2013).
Andrés Bello Prize for the best scientific work in basic sciences (2014). Awarded by Professors' Association of Universidad Simón Bolívar (J. Difference Equ. Appl. 20 (2014), 961-972).
Positions held:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Católica del Norte (Antofagasta, Chile): 2018-Present.
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas, Venezuela): 1993-2018 (Profesor titular: 2003-2018).
Department of Mathematics, Universität für Bodenkultur (BOKU) (Vienna, Austria): 2013-2014, Visiting Professor.
School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta GA, USA): 2005, Visiting Associate Professor.
Department of Mathematics, University of Washington (Seattle WA, USA): 2001, Visiting Associate Professor.
International Centre of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (Trieste, Italy): 2001, Mathematical Research Fellow.
School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta GA, USA): 1999, Visiting Asistant Professor.
Institute of Mathematics, Universidade Federal do Rio do Janeiro, (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): 1998, Post-doctoral fellow.
Laboratoire de Mathématiques Discrètes, Université D'Aix-Marseille II (Marseille, France): 1994, Invited Professor.
My Erdös number is 3.
E-mail: victor dot sirvent at ucn dot cl and vsirvent at usb dot ve
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