Michael Shelley (mathematician)

Michael J. Shelley
Born	August 17, 1959 (1959-08-17) (age 52) Colorado, USA
Nationality	USA
Fields	Mathematics Applied Mathematics
Institutions	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Alma mater	University of Arizona University of Colorado

Michael J. Shelley (born August 17, 1959) is an American applied mathematician who works on the modeling and simulation of complex systems arising in physics and biology. This has included free-boundary problems in fluids and materials science, singularity formation in partial differential equations, modeling visual perception in the primary visual cortex, dynamics of complex and active fluids, cellular biophysics, and fluid-structure interaction problems such as the flapping of flags, stream-lining in nature, and flapping flight. He is also the co-founder and co-director of the Courant Institute's Applied Mathematics Lab.

Life

Shelley was born in La Junta, Colorado (USA). He holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Colorado (1981) and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Arizona (1985). He was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, and then joined the faculty of mathematics at the University of Chicago. In 1992 he joined the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University where he is the George and Lilian Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics. He is also a Professor of Neuroscience (NYU) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (NYU-Poly).

Honors

• 1989 National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 1991 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator^[1]
• 1998 Francois Frenkiel Award^[2] of the American Physical Society
• 2001 Distinguished Chair of the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• 2006 Julian Cole Lectureship,^[3] Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• 2007 Elected Fellow^[4] of the American Physical Society
• 2009 Inaugural Fellow^[5] of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

References

1. ^ http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/stis1991/yi91/yi91.txt
2. ^ http://www.aps.org/units/dfd/awards/frenkiel.cfm
3. ^ http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/cole.php
4. ^ http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=S&year=2007&unit_id=&institution=
5. ^ http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2009

External links

• website at CIMS
• Michael Shelley (mathematician) at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Name	Shelley, Michael
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Date of birth	August 17, 1959
Place of birth	La Junta, Colorado, USA
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