Van Cyr

Address: Lunt B1
                Department of Mathematics
                Northwestern University
                Evanston, IL 60208

Email:     cyr@math.northwestern.edu

I am a Boas Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Northwestern University. I work in the dynamical systems group and am currently interested in the thermodynamic formalism of countable Markov shifts.

Teaching

This spring I am teaching Math 290-3.

Papers

• Spectral Gap and Transience for Ruelle Operators on Countable Markov Shifts with Omri Sarig. Commun. Math. Phys. 292, 637-666 (2009).
  
• Countable Markov Shifts with Transient Potentials To appear in Proc. of the London Math. Soc.
  
• A Number Theoretic Question Arising in the Geometry of Plane Curves and Billiard Dynamics To appear in Proc. of the AMS