Charles Epstein | |
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Born | Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Citizenship | U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Fields | Mathematics Applied Mathematics |
Institutions |
Princeton University of Pennsylvania |
Alma mater |
MIT Courant Institute |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Lax |
Other academic advisors | William Thurston |
Notable awards | Sloan Fellowship |
Charles L. Epstein is a Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Epstein is an analyst and applied mathematician. His interests include microlocal analysis and index theory; boundary value problems; nuclear magnetic resonance and medical imaging; and mathematical biology.
Charles Epstein was an undergraduate in mathematics at MIT and graduate student at the Courant Institute, NYU, where he received his PhD in 1983 under the direction of Peter Lax.
He did a postdoc with William Thurston before moving to the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since. Epstein won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1988.
He is currently Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics and graduate chair of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science.
In 2014, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to analysis, geometry, and applied mathematics including medical imaging, as well as for service to the profession".