Nationality American Fields Applied mathematics Role Mathematician | Name Russel Caflisch Institutions UCLA, IPAM | |
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Doctoral students Xiaofan Li
John Lowengrub
William Morokoff
Michael Siegel Institution University of California, Los Angeles, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics | ||
Doctoral advisor George C. Papanicolaou | ||
Russel Caflisch is an American mathematician.
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Biography
Russel Caflisch is a Professor in the Mathematics Department at UCLA, where he also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He received his bachelor's degree from Michigan State University in 1975. He earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. His dissertation was titled "The Fluid Dynamic Limit and Shocks for a Model Boltzmann Equation." He has also held faculty positions at Stanford and NYU. He has served as PhD advisor for 22 students, with 52descendants. He is currently the director of the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM). He was a founding member of California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). Caflisch’s expertise includes a wide range of topics in the field of applied mathematics, including partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, materials science, Monte Carlo methods, and computational finance. He was appointed Director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU in January 2017. He will begin duties in September 2017.
Recognition
Caflisch was awarded the Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship in 1975 and a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship in 1984. He was named a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009, the American Mathematical Society in 2012, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. He gave an Invited Lecture at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians .