Steven A. Orszag

Steven A. Orszag

Steven A. Orszag is the Percey F. Smith Professor Mathematics [http://www.yale.edu/opa/v29.n10/story7.html] at Yale University. He previously was the Forrest E. Hamrick Professor of Engineering at Princeton University (1984-98) and Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT (1967-84). He received his B.S. in Mathematics from MIT, his Ph.D. from Princeton in Astrophysics, and was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study. He has won numerous awards including Sloan and [http://www.gf.org/ofellow.html Guggenheim] Fellowships, the AIAA Fluid and Plasmadynamics Award, the Otto Laporte Award of the American Physical Society, and the G. I. Taylor Medal of the SES.

Orszag specializes in fluid dynamics, especially turbulence, computational physics and mathematics, electronic chip manufacturing, computer storage system design, and other topics involving scientific computing.

Orszag also co-authored with Carl M. Bender the text [http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Mathematical-Methods-Scientists-Engineers/dp/0387989315 "Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers: Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory"] , which is considered a standard text on mathematical methods for scientists.

He and his wife Reba have three sons: Michael, Peter, and Jonathan.


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