People: John Franks
John Franks
Professor of Mathematics
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Office: Lunt B18
Phone: (847) 491-5548
Email: j-franks
Research Area: Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory - Franks's recent topological work has focused on actions of groups on surfaces -- in particular, lattice actions which leave invariant a Borel probability measure on the surface. Some of his earlier work concerned knots that occur as closed orbits of flows, index arguments using the zeta function, subshifts of finite type, attractors, and descriptions of possible dynamics.
