Stanley Osher is an American mathematician, known for his many contributions in shock capturing, level set method

Level set method

The level set method is a numerical technique for tracking interfaces and shapes. The advantage of the level set method is that one can perform numerical computations involving curves and surfaces on a fixed Cartesian grid without having to parameterize these objects...

s, and PDE

Partial differential equation

In mathematics, partial differential equations are a type of differential equation, i.e., a relation involving an unknown function of several independent variables and their partial derivatives with respect to those variables...

-based methods in computer vision

Computer vision

Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions...

 and image processing

Image processing

In electrical engineering and computer science, image processing is any form of signal processing for which the input is an image, such as a photograph or video frame; the output of image processing may be either an image or, a set of characteristics or parameters related to the image...

. Osher is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

 (UCLA), Director of Special Projects in the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics

The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics is an American mathematics institute funded by the National Science Foundation. The initial funding for the institute was approved in May 1999 and it was inaugurated in August, 2000....

 (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
  Brooklyn College
  Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...
  
  , 1962
• M.S., New York University, 1964
• Ph.D.
  Ph.D.
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  , New York University
  New York University
  New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
  
  , 1966

Research interests

• Level set methods for computing moving fronts
• Approximation methods for hyperbolic conservation law
  Conservation law
  In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves....
  
  s and Hamilton-Jacobi equations
• Total variation
  Total variation
  In mathematics, the total variation identifies several slightly different concepts, related to the structure of the codomain of a function or a measure...
  
   and other PDE
  Partial differential equation
  In mathematics, partial differential equations are a type of differential equation, i.e., a relation involving an unknown function of several independent variables and their partial derivatives with respect to those variables...
  
  -based image processing techniques
• Scientific computing
• Applied partial differential equations

Osher is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher

ISI highly cited researcher

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Honors

• National Academy of Sciences
  United States National Academy of Sciences
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   (NAS), 2005
• SIAM
  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics was founded by a small group of mathematicians from academia and industry who met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led...
  
   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
  NASA
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   Public Service Group Achievement Award, 1992
• US-Israel BSF Fellow, 1986
• SERC Fellowship (England), 1982
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1972-1974
• Fulbright Fellow
  Fulbright Program
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  , 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).

External links

• Osher's home page at UCLA
  University of California, Los Angeles
  The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...