2025-2026 Women in Mathematics Lecture

Amie Wilkinson is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, where she has been on the faculty since 2012. She earned an A.B. in mathematics from Harvard (1989) and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1995) under Charles Pugh, then rose through the ranks at Northwestern University before moving to Chicago. Wilkinson's work sits at the heart of smooth dynamical systems and ergodic theory; her results on stable ergodicity, partial hyperbolicity, and (with Christian Bonatti and Sylvain Crovisier) the C1-centralizer problem provided a partial resolution of Smale's 12th problem for the 21st century. Her research excellence and expository skill have been recognized with the 2011 Ruth-Lyttle-Satter Prize and the 2020 Levi L. Conant Prize of the AMS. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013), a member of Academia Europaea (2019), and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. An invited speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians and a frequent plenary lecturer worldwide, Wilkinson continues to shape modern dynamics while mentoring the field's next generation.