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J.A. Sethian

J.A. Sethian

James Sethian is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, as well as Head of the Mathematics Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics at Berkeley in 1982, with a dissertation analyzing theoretical and numerical aspects of the numerical approximation of moving curves and surfaces in combustion modeling. He followed with a NSF postdoctoral fellowship at the Courant Institute of Mathematics, and then returned to Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in 1985, where he currently holds the title of Professor. In addition, he serves as the Head of the Mathematics Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Sethian is the author of many scientific articles and books, and serves as an Editor on several journals. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, which is awarded every three years jointly by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), for his work on level set methods and other applications.