International Conference on Scientific Computing,
Partial Differential Equations and Image Processing
On the Occasion of Stanley Osher's 60th birthday.
Tsunami
out of the Computer
When a catastrophe in the movies should look realistic,
Hollywood calls for the mathematicians. English translation from the German
article by Vasco A. Schmidt in Die Zeit, a major German weekly newspaper
published in Hamburg, Germany. (September 1999)
Computing
at the Edge
This Science News article explores the level-set approach
for modeling complex behavior at interfaces. (April 1999)
1999
Innovators
Article exploring how mathematicians solve different types
of real world problems. (Trans World Airlines Ambassador Magazine, January
1999)
Math
Whizzes Want Respect in Equation
Several UCLA Mathematicians were featured in this column
one, front page article including interviews with Tony Chan (dept. chair),
Stanley Osher, Russel Caflisch, and Mark Green. (Los Angeles Times, July
1998)
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Computational Mechanics Award, 2002
ISI Original Highly Cited Researcher, 2001
Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, 1994
NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award, 1992
US-Israel BSF Fellow, 1986
SERC Fellowship (England), 1982
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1972-1974
Fulbright Fellow, 1971
Research Interests
Level set methods for computing moving fronts involving topological changes,
The development of methods for approximating hyperbolic conservation laws
and Hamilton-Jacobi equations,
Total variation and other partial differential equations based image processing
techniques and in scientific computing and applied partial differential equations.
