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1996-2010
J.A. Sethian

J.A. Sethian

James Sethian is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, Head of the Mathematics Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Director of LBNL's Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA).

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.

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 Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the 2011 Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences, 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 seminal work on the computer representation of the motion of curves, surfaces, interfaces, and wave fronts, and for his brilliant applications of mathematical and computational ideas to problems in science and engineering", and 2011 Pioneer Prize, which is awarded every four years by the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathemematics (ICIAM), for "his fundamental methods and algorithms which have had a large impact in applications such as in imaging and shape recovery in medicine, geophysics and tomography and drop dynamics in inkjets."


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