Charles Samuel Peskin (born April 15, 1946) is an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

known for his work in the mathematical modeling of blood flow in the heart. Such calculations are useful in the design of

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. From this work has emerged an original computational method for fluid-structure interaction that is now called the “

immersed boundary method In computational fluid dynamics, the immersed boundary method originally referred to an approach developed by Charles Peskin in 1972 to simulate fluid-structure (fiber) interactions. Treating the coupling of the structure deformations and the flui ...

". The

allows the coupling between deformable immersed structures and fluid flows to be handled in a computationally tractable way. With his students and colleagues, Peskin also has worked on mathematical models of such systems as the inner ear, arterial pulse,

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, light adaptation in the

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, control of

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number, control of plasmid replication,

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, and

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. Peskin received an A.B. (1968) from

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and a Ph.D. (1972) from the

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a research-intensive medical school located in the Morris Park neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City. Founded in 1953, Einstein operates as an independent degree-granting institution as part of t ...

Yeshiva University Yeshiva University is a private Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City."About YU
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and shortly thereafter joined the faculty of the

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (commonly known as Courant or CIMS) is the mathematics research school of New York University (NYU), and is among the most prestigious mathematics schools and mathematical sciences research cente ...

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

. He has been a productive educator of applied mathematicians, and has advised more than fifty graduate students as of 2014. Peskin is a

MacArthur Fellow The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...

. In 1969 he married Lucille G. Bisesi. Their son Eric is the Manager of High Performance Computing at New York University.

Awards and honors

* George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics from AMS–SIAM, 2003 *Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998 *Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, 1994 * Sidney Fernbach Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, 1994 *Cray Research Information Technology Leadership Award for Breakthrough Computational Science, 1994 * Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecturer,

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

, 1993 *New York University Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences, 1992 * James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing,

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, 1985 *MacArthur Fellowship, 1983–1988 He has also been a fellow of the

since 1994, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1995, and a member of the Institute of Medicine since 2000. He is also an inaugural fellow of the

and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

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External links

Professor Peskin's home page at NYU
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Peskin, Charles S. Living people Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 1946 births 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Fluid dynamicists Computational fluid dynamicists MacArthur Fellows Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Albert Einstein College of Medicine alumni Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty Harvard University alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine

Awards and honors

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