Stanley Osher (born April 24, 1942) is an American mathematician, known for his many contributions in shock capturing, level-set methods, and PDE-based methods in

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and

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. Osher is a professor at the

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(UCLA), Director of Special Projects in the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) and member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA.

Education and career

Osher received a bachelor's degree from

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls nearly 14,000 students on a campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall ...

in 1962. He continued his studies at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

, where he received a master's degree in 1964 and completed his Ph.D. in 1966. After two years working at the Brookhaven National Laboratories, he joined the

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as an assistant professor of mathematics in 1968. He moved to

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public university, public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is on ...

as an associate professor in 1970, and there was promoted to full professor in 1975. He moved again to the

Department of Mathematics in 1977. He co-founded a spinoff company, Cognitech, in 1988, and remained affiliated with Cognitech until 1995.

Recognition

Osher was a

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in 1971, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1972–1974 an SERC Fellow in England in 1982, and a US-Israel BSF Fellow in 1986. He was elected to the

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in 2005, to the

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in 2009, and to the

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in 2018. He was named as a Fellow of the

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific soci ...

in 2009, and of the

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in 2013. He is a 1992 recipient of the

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Public Service Group Achievement Award, the 2002 recipient of the Computational Mechanics Award of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering, the 2003 recipient of the ICIAM Pioneer Prize, the 2005 recipient of the

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Kleinman Prize, the 2007 recipient of the Computational and Applied Sciences Award of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics, and the 2007 recipient of the International Cooperation Award, given at the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians. He received the 2013 John von Neumann Lecture prize from

, the 2014

Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics is a mathematics award, granted jointly by the International Mathematical Union and the German Mathematical Society for "outstanding mathematical contributions that have found signific ...

, and the 2016 William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics. He has honorary doctorates from ENS Cachan in France in 2006 and from

Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a public Liberal arts education, liberal arts university with a Christian ethics, Christian education heritage in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The university was established as Hong Kong Baptist ...

in 2009. He was a plenary speaker at the 2010

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Books authored

Osher's books include: * * *

References

External links

Osher's home page
at

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Education and career

Recognition

Books authored

See also

References

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