Stanley Osher

Stanley Joel Osher
Born	April 24, 1942 (1942-04-24) (age 69) Brooklyn, New York, USA
Nationality	American
Fields	Applied Mathematics
Institutions	UCLA, SUNY, Stony Brook, UC Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Jacob Schwartz
Doctoral students	Chi-Wang Shu Mark Sussman Moysey Brio Ron Fedkiw
Known for	Level set method Shock capturing methods

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 computer vision and image processing. Osher is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Director of Special Projects in the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) and member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA. He also has a daughter and a son, Kathryn and Joel, respectively.

Education

• B.S., Brooklyn College, 1962
• M.S., New York University, 1964
• Ph.D., New York University, 1966

Research interests

• Level set methods for computing moving fronts
• Approximation methods for hyperbolic conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations
• Total variation and other PDE-based image processing techniques
• Scientific computing
• Applied partial differential equations

Osher is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.^[1]

Honors

• National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 2005
• SIAM Kleinman Prize -- "...for his many contributions to the analysis and computation of hyperbolic equations and their applications in science and engineering, and for his mentoring of young scientists and service to the scientific community. His many innovations in numerical schemes for conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations and in the development of the level set method and its applications have had enormous impact across disciplinary boundaries in image processing, control, flow simulation, and many other fields."
• ICIAM Pioneer Prize, 2003
• 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

Books authored

• S. Osher and R. Fedkiw, "Level Set Methods and Dynamic Implicit Surfaces", Springer-Verlag, New York (2002).
• S. Osher and N. Paragios, "Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging, Vision and Graphics", Springer-Verlag, New York (2003).

See also

• James A. Sethian, co-developer of level set methods.

References

1. ^ Thomson ISI, Osher, Stanley, ISI Highly Cited Researchers, http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=1337, retrieved 2009-06-20 

External links

• Osher's home page at UCLA
• Stanley Osher at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Name	Osher, Stanley
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Date of birth	April 24, 1942
Place of birth	Brooklyn, New York, USA
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